Afghanistan: Inside Australia's War

The episode shows how America and Australia were sucked into war against the Taliban government in Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries on Earth but, for hundreds of years, a graveyard for superpowers.

Episode 2 charts Australia's efforts alongside Dutch forces to secure the Afghan province of Uruzgan and support the new...and increasingly corrupt...government of Hamid Karzai by building hospitals, roads, schools and police stations. The moral complexities of the war hit home most profoundly when Australian soldiers face charges of manslaughter in the wake of accidental civilian deaths during combat.

With the war in quagmire, the Australian Army's main fighting force, the Infantry, is sent to join a Coalition surge to break through, defeat the insurgency and train an Afghan force that could secure the country and make our exit possible.