{"id":33609,"date":"2017-08-17T13:40:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T03:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=33609"},"modified":"2017-08-17T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T03:29:45","slug":"domestic-violence-silence-accomplice-says-australias-chief-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/domestic-violence-silence-accomplice-says-australias-chief-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic violence\u2014\u2018silence is the accomplice\u2019, says Australia\u2019s Chief of Army"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lieutenant General Angus Campbell has delivered a strong and very public warning to ADF members not to engage in domestic violence. In an address at the National Press Club in Canberra, the army chief made it clear that an ADF member who was named as the respondent on a protection order could expect to face immediate action by the military authorities.<\/p>\n

\u2018He or she must notify their commanding officer in writing as soon as possible, but no later than 24 hours after becoming aware that they are subject to a protection order\u2019, he said. \u2018As an initial step, their commanding officer is then expected to immediately restrict the member\u2019s access to weapons.\u2019<\/p>\n

The army, navy and air force exist for the lawful, disciplined use of violence to defend Australia and its national interests, Campbell said. \u2018The ill-disciplined and illegal use of violence on operations is a war crime. At home it\u2019s a crime.\u2019<\/p>\n

The army chief said that today\u2019s Australian soldiers are the most lethal this nation had ever fielded. They have each been given the skills, knowledge, weapons and communication systems to kill Australia\u2019s enemies more assuredly than any preceding generation. \u2018This is the grim reality of what\u2019s known as the science of war\u2019, he said.<\/p>\n

\u2018You won\u2019t be a soldier in whose hands I place such lethality, if you don\u2019t live by Army\u2019s values\u2014courage, initiative, respect and teamwork. Always. When you\u2019re scared, exhausted, confused and your mates are dead, our weapons won\u2019t discriminate the innocent from the enemy combatant. You will.\u2019<\/p>\n

Success in battle requires great self-discipline and a willingness to sacrifice for others, Campbell said.<\/p>\n

\u2018The journey of self-discipline starts at home, not in the heat of battle\u2019, he said. \u2018When one of my people engages in the illegal and ill-disciplined use of violence at home, in training or on exercise, my confidence in them to execute their duties lawfully and discriminately in circumstances of immense stress on the battlefield is deeply undermined.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018They are not living by Army\u2019s values\u2019, he said. \u2018I see cowardice not courage, comfortable habit not the initiative to break the cycle, I don\u2019t trust them to respect the innocent, the weak and the wounded, nor to serve the team rather than themselves.\u2019<\/p>\n

Perpetrators of family and domestic violence are fundamentally at odds with the meaning and profession of Australian soldiering, he said. \u2018This is why family and domestic violence is a war fighting capability and workplace issue. And why addressing it is a necessary part of our continuing work. The fight against family and domestic violence is about living the Army\u2019s values. And of course it\u2019s also the right thing to do, for any citizen of Australia.\u2019<\/p>\n

Campbell said that last week he was surprised to read incorrect media reports saying that the army had stopped recruiting men. \u2018We haven\u2019t.\u2019 He said that on Friday he reviewed the graduation of the army\u2019s newest infantry soldiers at the School of Infantry, Singleton. Nineteen were men and two were women.<\/p>\n

\u2018To put things into perspective, in the 2016\u201317 financial year, 670 men and 23 women entered our 1st Recruit Training Battalion, at Kapooka, seeking to qualify for service in the infantry. Six hundred and seventy men and 23 women does not a revolution make.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Campbell said that he does want to see more women and more Indigenous Australians serving in the army, and more culturally and linguistically diverse Australians. \u2018I want the best and most talented Australians to serve their nation in their Army. And to get the best, I need to draw from the widest breadth of our nation.\u2019<\/p>\n

Campbell played a video titled Silence Is the Accomplice, <\/em>produced by the army earlier this year, which gives accounts by four soldiers of their experience of domestic violence. \u2018Our aim in producing the video was to raise awareness of the impacts of family and domestic violence on individuals, their families and the Army as an organisation\u2019, he said. The video has been viewed more than 49,000 times on Facebook.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Campbell ordered everyone in the army to watch the Four Corners<\/em> documentary \u2018Hitting home\u2019 (about domestic violence) and to take part in a moderated discussion about it. \u2018It showed the effect that family and domestic violence, and its consequences, have on the wider community in which the Army is a significant national institution\u2019, he said.<\/p>\n

The army is a very big \u2018human organisation\u2019, Campbell said. \u2018By definition, then, we are imperfect and flawed. Working to stop family and domestic violence not only makes us a better army, it makes us better Australians.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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