NZSAS Archive

  • Kennedy Graham

    What Has to be Done to Get Transparency? Afghanistan and the NZ SAS - by Kennedy Graham



    The latest reports of coalition forces in Afghanistan handing over detainees to Afghan authorities who then torture them have concentrated the mind here once more in New Zealand. In Britain, the High Court has upheld a ban on British forces transferring prisoners to the Afghan National Directorate for Security (NDS) because of the risk they [...] read more
    August 19, 2010 12:59 pm - 5 Comments
  • Kennedy Graham

    Afghanistan’s Agony: What in the world to do? - by Kennedy Graham



    Afghanistan gets progressively worse.  The US President is caught in a vice-like grip between personal judgment and political constraint.  Having characterised Afghanistan as a war of necessity to escape a war of choice (Iraq), he cannot exit early.  Yet a late exit becomes a quagmire.  He thus equivocates over the military’s request for another surge, [...] read more
    November 6, 2009 12:25 pm - 29 Comments