Brendan Nicholson
AIR Chief Marshal Angus Houston two years ago urged US military commanders in Afghanistan not to change Australia's role in a way that would undermine then prime minister Kevin Rudd's attempts to maintain public support for the war.
The then defence force chief intended in August 2009 to call Mike McMullen, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, David Petraeus, the head of US central command, and Stanley McChrystal, the commander in Afghanistan, to raise his concerns.
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