{"id":3194,"date":"2020-11-22T05:38:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T05:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2020-11-22T05:38:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T05:38:07","slug":"australia-defense-chief-pledges-changes-after-afghanistan-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=3194","title":{"rendered":"Australia Defense Chief Pledges Changes after Afghanistan Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><strong>(TOLO News): Australia\u2019s top military official said on Sunday the country\u2019s defense force must \u2018own\u2019 a recent report on soldiers committing crimes in Afghanistan and pledged changes to ensure that atrocities do not happen again.\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\nThe report, published on Thursday after an inquiry into the conduct of special forces personnel in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016, found that senior commandos forced junior soldiers to kill defenseless captives in order to \u201cblood\u201d them for combat.\u00a0 Defense Force Chief General Angus Campbell said on Sunday he would be held to account to ensure the report was dealt with thoroughly, as well as for duty and performance as the commander in the Middle East in 2011.\u00a0 \u201cI want the ADF (Australia Defense Force) to acknowledge that this is something we\u2019ve got to own because if we don\u2019t own it, we won\u2019t fix it and if we don\u2019t fix it, this horror may appear again and I just cannot accept that,\u201d Campbell told ABC television.\u00a0 The report, which recommended referring 19 current and former soldiers for potential prosecution, caused shame and anger in Australia, a country that usually honours its military history with fervour.\u00a0 \u201cI see layers of responsibility here,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cI\u2019m determined to see deep, comprehensive and enduring change where it is needed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(TOLO News): Australia\u2019s top military official said on Sunday the country\u2019s defense force must \u2018own\u2019 a recent report on soldiers committing crimes in Afghanistan and pledged changes to ensure that atrocities do not happen again.\u00a0 The report, published on Thursday after an inquiry into the conduct of special forces personnel in Afghanistan between 2005 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}