Dying for an invitation to Washington
John Key and his colleagues are going to send the Special Air Service to Afghanistan. The current talk about whether National should do so is, unfortunately, academic. The decision is already made.
Category: Military
Propaganda then and now Notes of a lecture by Nicky Hager at Auckland Museum on Wednesday, 2 May 2007
The Interrogator’s War, Inside the secret war against al Qaeda
The Interrogator’s War, Inside the secret war against al Qaeda, Chris Mackey with Greg Miller, John Murray
review by Nicky Hager
Pulling rank from ‘the Yanks’: the life of a Kiwi contractor in Iraq
NICKY HAGER speaks to a former NZSAS member working in a `Close Protection Team’: DOZENS OF New Zealanders are working for private companies in Iraq as violent opposition to the occupation forces spreads and the risks to foreigners grow….
More to NZ’s tour of duty than meets the eye
A LEAKED report reveals the 61 New Zealand Army engineers caught up in the Iraq conflict have spent only a fraction of their time helping rebuild services for Iraqi civilians….
Orion spending decision flies in face of Clark’s previous policy
NO ONE said it openly, but an unpublicised cabinet decision in late January signalled the end of Labour’s policy of reorienting the defence forces….
Noam Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival, America’s Quest for Global Dominance
Noam Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival, America’s Quest for Global Dominance, Allen and Unwin
Reviewed by Nicky Hager
In the line of fire
The role New Zealand soldiers are playing in Iraq is not the one the government has sold to the country… (This feature was the first expose of New Zealand military activities in Iraq.)
In defence it’s not size that matters
The latest ‘debate’ about defence consists of the usual moans about the military being dangerously underfunded and ill-equipped…. but this says more about the feeble standard of debate than any reality concerning our military forces….
Special operations, just another definition for terror
CONSIDER the achievements of the Afghanistan war in terms of “fighting terrorism”… Overall, future terrorist attacks on the US and its allies appear to be more, not less, likely as a result of this war. It is not hard to see why.