10/14/22 Ben Mckelvey on Australia’s Crimes and Struggles in Afghanistan

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Scott interviews author and freelance journalist Ben Mckelvey about a book he recently published which explores the controversies and challenges of Australian special operations in Afghanistan. Scott and Mckelvey dig into the war crime allegations and subsequent defamation lawsuits that have defined this chapter of Australian SASR history. They also take a step back and reflect on how the realities on the ground made Coalition success in the war impossible. Discussed on the show: Find Fix Finish by Ben Mckelvey Kill Bin Laden by Thomas Greer Bush at War by Bob Woodward Brereton Report “The Other Afghan Women” (The New Yorker) Funding the Enemy by Douglas A. Wissing Ben Mckelvey is a freelance writer and editor from Sydney. He has been embedded with the ADF in East Timor and Iraq, and has worked independently in Iran and Afghanistan. Follow him on Twitter @benmckelvey This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and Thc Hemp Spot. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.0	All right you guys on the line. I've got Ben McElvy. He is an Australian journalist and
1:18.1	author of many books. The latest is Find Fix and Finish from Tampa to Afghanistan.
1:27.0	Welcome to the show. How are you doing Ben?
1:29.0	Good Scott, how are you?
1:31.0	Very good. Very happy to have you on the show.
1:34.0	Really an impressive book, and I've read a lot of books about Afghanistan.
1:38.0	Thanks, then, I appreciate that.
1:40.0	So, yeah, and you know what? It's kind of of over now and it's a bit of a relief
1:45.4	Wasn't sure how I felt about reading another book about Afghanistan now. I'm so happy to be done with it, but I was very happy to read this it's a very important book and I do hope
1:54.7	that people will take a look at it all about Australia's special forces in the
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