Failures of command : the death of Private Robert Poate / Hugh Poate
- Bib ID:
- 8562501
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Poate, Hugh, author
- Description:
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- Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2021
- ©2021
- xxiii, 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, colour portraits ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781742237237 (paperback)
- Summary:
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On 29 August 2012 Private Robert Poate, Lance Corporal Rick Milosevic and Sapper James Martin were killed during an insider -- or green on blue -- attack in Afghanistan. Their killer: a supposed ally, was a Taliban sleeper in the ranks of the Afghan National Army. Information provided to the families by rank-and-file soldiers after the event shocked them. When the heavily redacted internal investigation report excluded a plethora of incriminating facts. This book is the result of a father's quest to find out truth behind the death of his soldier son. Hugh's search reveals a labyrinth of excuses, denials, half-truths, cover-ups, contrived secrecy, incompetence, negligence, orders not followed and lessons not learnt.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- Poate, Hugh
- Poate, Robert -- Death and burial
- Poate, Robert
- Australian Defence Force
- Military offences -- Investigation -- Australia
- Soldiers -- Australia -- Death
- Military ethics
- Afghan War, 2001- -- Casualties
- Afghan War, 2001- -- Participation, Australian
- Australia -- Politics and government -- 2001-
- Australian
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2021
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