Typical of the crap published by The Australian.  Their journos are so stupid they don't event realise that Petraeus will not command Afghanistan.  He will command US forces in the region.  In Afghanistan there is the ludicrous situation where some US forces are under US command and others are under NATO command along with all other non-Afghan forces including Australian.  Command of the NATO forces rotates, the first command was Gen Sir David Richards, current is the second US general is in the job, the next change over seems to be to another UK general and UK framework HQ, again based on the ARRC which has a multinational staff. 

 

The had another beauty today, no doubt they'll blame The Times which originally published the article.  Aust forces involved in the recent heavy convoy from Kandahar to Karaji, true, in The Australian they were described as special forces, hmm, big assumption there, why would Aust SF be needed, Helmand has the AA bde recce force including the rather important cbt engr recce elms?  Put money on the Aust involvement being RAA in G Bty RHA.