why soldiers commit war crimes – and what we can do about it
- Written by Mia Martin Hobbs, Research Fellow, Deakin University
The following essay contains disturbing images and language.
In 2020, the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force released the Afghanistan Inquiry into Australian Defence Force Special Forces atrocities in Afghanistan. The report – commonly known as the Brereton Report – resulted in a flurry of analysis debating how and why...





