In Afghanistan, the Victoria Cross winner was fighting an enemy that couldn’t be distinguished from civilians, his barrister said on the opening day of his defamation trial.
Subscribe to gift this article
Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
“Your honour,” Bruce McClintock, SC, began his opening submission on Monday morning in court 18D at the Federal Court complex in central Sydney.
“This is a case about courage, devotion to duty, self-sacrifice and perhaps, most importantly of all, surpassing skill in soldiering.”
Fetching latest articles
Original URL: https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/roberts-smith-deploys-a-breaker-morant-defence-20210607-p57yqz
