Tag: Training

ADF

The Ben Roberts-Smith case must force ADF leadership to re-examine Brereton report flagging how unethical conduct can flourish – ABC News

Ben Roberts-Smith receives Victoria Cross

The System that is scapegoating Smith as a rogue is our Defense and the ADF structure and it’s bigger than any one individual. It remains protected and hidden. Let’s not forget the bastardy, misogyny and rape that took place at Duntroon and how it too put the blame on rogue elements rather than the organization. Victim blaming even went into full force.

Beginning with the Brereton report of 2020, and through to the BRS judgement last week, two Australian judges have exposed war crimes by Australian special forces soldiers but have also shown how the command and leadership culture of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) failed.

Source: The Ben Roberts-Smith case must force ADF leadership to re-examine Brereton report flagging how unethical conduct can flourish – ABC News

Yemen

Saudi-UAE coalition admits Yemen school bus attack ‘unjustified’ | Yemen News | Al Jazeera

Forty children were killed in the coalition air raid on Saada province [Naif Rahma/Reuters]

Following the attack, individual members of the Congress in the United States also called on their country’s army to clarify its role in the war and investigate whether support for the air raids could render US military personnel “liable under the war crimes act”.

The US has been the biggest supplier of military equipment to Riyadh, with more than $90bn of sales recorded between 2010 and 2015.

Out of the 16,000-plus raids they have launched since the start of the conflict, only a handful have been investigated, despite nearly a third of all bombs hitting civilian targets.

Last year, the UN blacklisted the Saudi-UAE alliance for causing the majority of reported child deaths and injuries in Yemen.

The global body has described the situation in Yemen as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

It has also said that least 10,000 people have been killed since the start of the conflict. However, analysts say the death toll is likely to be higher.

via Saudi-UAE coalition admits Yemen school bus attack ‘unjustified’ | Yemen News | Al Jazeera

Education

Conservatives are a product of Direct Instruction – » The Australian Independent Media Network

It’s not surprising that conservatives are fans of Direct Instruction.  It’s their whole life. Many of them are religious.  They do not/cannot question the belief drilled into them from birth for fear of being labelled an heretic or being excommunicated or at least having to do penance. Many conservatives are fans of more standardised tests…

Source: Conservatives are a product of Direct Instruction – » The Australian Independent Media Network

US Exceptionalism, values

Choice or Truth