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Kevin Foster

Kevin Foster is an Associate Professor at Monash University, the editor of What Are We Doing in Afghanistan? The Military and the Media at War and the author, most recently, of Lost Worlds: Latin America and the Imagining of Empire.

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Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 198 Autumn 2010 · Main Posts

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Kevin Foster

A key difference between the Australian military’s relations with the media and the American model is that the ADF neither needs nor wants the media to tell its story or endorse its credibility. It is, then, little wonder that we are so ill-informed about what the ADF are up to in Afghanistan.