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Stuart McCarthy is a former Australian Army officer whose 28-year
military career included two tours of Afghanistan and four other
operational deployments. In 2011-12 he was the chief of International
Security Assistance Force civil-military operations in Oruzgan and
Daykundi provinces, Afghanistan. He tweets @stuartmccarthy_
