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Failures of command : the death of Private Robert Poate / Hugh Poate.

Failures of command : the death of Private Robert Poate / Hugh Poate.
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ISBN 9781742237237 (paperback)
Name Poate, Hugh author.
Title Failures of command : the death of Private Robert Poate / Hugh Poate.
Published Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2021.
©2021
Description xxiii, 368 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Notes Includes bibliographical references.
Summary 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 was supposed to be their ally but 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 was received the grieving families knew that it excluded a plethora of incriminating facts. This powerful book is the result of a father's quest to find out all the facts associated with the death of his son. His search reveals a labyrinth of excuses, denials, half-truths, cover-ups, contrived secrecy, incompetence, negligence, orders not followed, and lessons not learnt from the previous twelve years of war in Afghanistan. The determination of Hugh Poate and the other two families to uncover the truth would lead to a civilian Coronial Inquest into combat deaths, the first in the 120-year history of the Australian Army. Compelling and enraging, this story of the true facts surrounding the devastating loss of three soldiers continues to reverberate beyond their families to the highest levels of Defence and government.
Subjects Poate, Robert
Australia. -- Australian Defence Force
Soldiers -- Australia -- Death
Military offences -- Investigation -- Australia
Afghan War, 2001-
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