LETHALITY IN COMBAT: ASTUDY OF THE TRUE NATURE OF BATTLE

摘要

In 1999 an Australian Special Air Service soldier in East Timor was charged with misconduct. After a skirmish with pro-Indonesian militia he had kicked an enemy corpse. Australian newspapers were critical of the soldier's behaviour but the-then Foreign Minister of East Timor, Jose Ramos Horta, thought it wrong to charge the soldier. The soldier was eventually found not guilty but the case, which many of us will remember, is a good example of the problems dealt with in Tom Lewis's book, Lethality in Combat.