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Australia in Afghanistan

by Peter Batchelor — last modified 2008-04-03 15:44

Australia in Afghanistan is published by the Nautilus Institute at RMIT, and is the Australian Forces Abroad series of Briefing Books. As of April 2008, there were are approximately 1025 Australian Defence Forces (ADF) personnel serving in Afghanistan as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation-led (NATO) International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

Australian military forces were committed to coalition military operations against the Taliban government of Afghanistan in October 2001 as part of what became Operation Enduring Freedom. Australian Defence Force activities in Afghanistan since that date have been known as Operation Slipper, "an important component of the Australian Government's commitment to working together with the international community to help prevent acts of terrorism around the world." As of April 2008, there were more than 1,000 ADF personnel serving in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. Those numbers are likely to increase with the government's commitment to training Afghan National Army forces.

In July 2007 these forces were principally made up of:

  • a National Command Element in Kabul;
  • a Liaison group at ISAF headquarters;
  • Reconstruction Task Force based in Tarin Kowt, Oruzgan Province as part of an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Provincial Reconstruction Team;
  • a Special Forces Task Group deployed to Oruzgan province as part of ISAF operations against insurgents;
  • an RAAF air surveillance radar capability deployed at Kandahar Air Field;
  • a Chinook helicopter group based at Kandahar in Helmand province in support of ISAF operations;
  • a small artillery contigennt deployed with British forces in Helmand province.

There are also Australian Federal Police operations in Afghanistan, and an Australian Secret Intelligence Service station.

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Project coordinator: Richard Tanter

URL: http://www.globalcollab.org/Nautilus/australia/afghanistan

5 October 2007