AUSTRALIAN General John Monash was that rare combination of entrepreneur, polymath and military strategist who was arguably Australia’s outstanding military leader. Professional engineer, lawyer and part-time soldier, he rose to senior command through service at...
Commentary
Commentary: Janet Albrechtsen on the Government’s confidential settlement in the Higgins Case and its comparative injustice to injured or disabled military veterans
Read the full article here, The following excerpts from that article are specific to her comparative injustice commentary. The process followed by the government, and in particular the Department of Finance, to settle this claim was so outrageously out of line with...
Opinion: I Say, I Say, I Say – Old leadership lessons are still relevant
MAJOR Charles McMoran Wilson MC, Silver Medal of Military Valour (Italy), twice MID, knew more than most about soldiers and soldiering. As 1st Bn Royal Fusiliers RMO on the Western Front in World War I, he treated their wounds, observed their reactions to climate and...
A Current Affair – War Veterans Battle for Recognition 30 years on
In tonight’s TV Channel 9 programme A Current Affair, in the third item Ray Fulcher and Graeme Mickleberg outline the RCB claim for warlike service which is based on irrefutable evidence discovered in their search for the truth See the program...
RCB Recognition of Service – on TV Channel 9: A Current Affair at 7.00 pm Tuesday 20 December 2022
The video of the first Hearing of the Defence Honours and Awards Tribunal and the Report of it by Charles Miranda has aroused the Australian public’s interest in this David and Goliath like struggle, now in its 17th year, of the RCB veterans challenge...
The acquisition debate, perspectives from the war in Ukraine
Source Defence Connect. The recent invasion of Ukraine has prompted defence thinkers to reassess modern warfighting strategies, and the capabilities needed to achieve their goals. Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine has prompted a radical rethink of warfighting...
RCB: DHAAT Hearing 23 November 2022 – Video
See the video here Current submissions can be seen here The Tribunal has allowed additional submissions before the next Hearing in early 2023
ADF defend pretext to war for 9000 veterans
News Limited media’s Charles Miranda reports that Defence has copped a battering over how and why it sent 9000 troops to Malaysia during a Communist terrorist insurgency more than 30 years ago with serious implications for future deployments today. The Defence...
RCB: An Injustice that must be fixed
This article appeared in the Editorial of The Sydney Saturday Telegraph 22 October 2022 RCB-This-Must-be-Fixed-Download
Courier Mail article – War They Tried to Keep Secret
At last a national media organisation, News Limited media’s Charles Miranda, has exposed publicly in the Courier Mail and the Townsville Bulletin the facts of the Australian Army’s Rifle Company Butterworth deployments (1970-1989) to protect the RAAF assets...