Survivor Life In The Sas Mark Wales by Mark Wales 9781760986100, 1760986100 instant download after payment.

I remember when I first saw the newspaper headlines about war crimes
allegedly committed by special forces in Afghanistan. The accusations were
ugly: prisoners kicked off cliffs, murders, torture, dismemberments. Both
the media and public were shocked.
The press rightly jumped on the stories, but the context to the war was
rarely examined. I doubt these incidents occurred in a vacuum. Men were
not waking up, heading to the team rooms and laying out their deliberate
plans to destroy civilians in the field. More likely, it was the result of a
creep in psychological damage, moral standards and culture over a decade –
in line with the mission creep we experienced over the years.
We had fought Australia’s longest war by double. I deployed there every
year from 2006 to 2010. If the smattering of combat I had engaged in had
unhinged me morally and mentally, what did people think would happen if
we sent the same unit back into combat time and again over not just a
couple of years, but a decade?
We became brittle. In some cases, we snapped. Even elite soldiers have
limits. I know I found mine.
We wanted to survive the war. To improve our chances, we had to be
vicious. I shudder to think how many other Aussie troops would have died
had we not fought as hard as we did. Did we create more enemies? For the
most part, yes. We buried a lot of enemies too.
That’s war