ANU Professor John Blaxland says Australia “must study” as a nation from the Battle in Afghanistan.
“You and I are each sturdy supporters of our alliance with the USA,” Professor Blaxland instructed Sky Information host Catherine McGregor.
“However we’re now at a junction the place the USA truly wants some assist, it must be considering by way of what the long run may maintain”.
“And we must be considering for ourselves, we haven’t completed that correctly up to now.”
Professor Blaxland stated we’ve “let the People take the lead in doing the considering” and it “hasn’t been all that constructive”.
“We’re now going through a predicament in our neck of the woods the place we do must assume extra closely,” he stated.
“We do want to consider the teachings from Afghanistan and Iraq.”