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Rogue Forces

Rogue Forces 1

An explosive insiders' account of Australian SAS war crimes in Afghanistan

by Mark Willacy
Paperback
Publication Date: 18/08/2021
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Rogue Forces is the explosive first insiders' story of how some of Australia's revered SAS soldiers crossed the line in Afghanistan, descending from elite warriors to unlawful killers.

Mark Willacy, who won a Gold Walkley for exposing SAS war crimes, has penetrated the SAS code of silence to reveal one of the darkest chapters in our country's military history.

Willacy's devastating award-winning Four Corners program, 'Killing Fields' captured on film for the first time a war crime perpetrated by an Australian: the killing of a terrified, unarmed Afghan man in a field by an SAS soldier. It caused shockwaves around the world and resulted in an Australian Federal Police war crimes investigation. It also sparked a new line of investigation by the Brereton inquiry, the independent Australian Defence Force inquiry into war crimes in Afghanistan. It was a game changer.

But for Willacy, it was just the beginning of a much bigger story. More SAS soldiers came forward with undeniable evidence and eyewitness testimony of other unlawful killings, and exposed a culture of brutality and impunity.

Rogue Forces takes you out on the patrols where the killings happened. The result is a gripping character-driven story that embeds you on the front line in the thick of the action as those soldiers share for the first time what they witnessed. Willacy also confronts those accused about their sides of the story.

At its heart, Rogue Forces is a story about the true heroes who had the courage to come forward and expose the truth.

This is their story. A story that had to be told.

ISBN:
9781761101786
9781761101786
Category:
Afghan War
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
18-08-2021
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
416
Dimensions (mm):
234x153mm
Mark Willacy

Mark Willacy has been a journalist for more than 25 years and has reported for the ABC from more than 30 countries. Mark is a seven-time Walkley Award winner and in 2020 he was awarded Australia’s highest honour in journalism, the Gold Walkley, for exposing alleged Australian SAS war crimes in Afghanistan. His winning Four Corners report ‘Killing Field’ made headlines around the world and sparked a federal police war crimes investigation.

Willacy’s investigations provided evidence for 12 cases named in the Brereton Report, the independent Australian Defence Force inquiry into war crimes in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016. As the ABC’s Middle East correspondent for four years, Mark reported on the ground from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the 2003 war in Iraq. He was also the Japan correspondent in 2011 when the country was hit by its most powerful earthquake in more than a thousand years. Mark has twice been named Queensland Journalist of the Year and in 2019 he won a Logie Award for his Four Corners’ world exclusive on the Thai cave rescue.

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Mark "Fallacy" Willacy has somehow managed to flesh out a few unsubstantiated—and now for many, outright disproven—exaggerated claims into a full book-length gossip rag. Some Taliban sympathisers (not including Mark) and a few long-discredited ex-military underperformers with an axe-to-grind serve as the foundational nexus for the rest of his house of cards. The result reads not only as the entirely contrived bemoaning of a man pathetically scrounging for a few extra dollars by riding upon the battle-earned reputation of others—but also remains simply a sub-par, poorly written, unengaging work of genre-fiction fodder regardless.

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