Stand up for US-allied warriors against political lawfare from their own governments
By Joni Ernst
Published on April 28, 2026.
The US Congress is urged to stand up for US-allied warriors against political lawfare from their own governments, following the arrest of Australian soldier Ben Roberts-Smith, the most decorated soldier in his country's history, accused of war crimes related to special operations operations in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Britain's elite Special Air Service is being dragged through a parallel process of government-commissioned inquiries and retrospective legal proceedings. These cases are part of a pattern that is spreading through the special operations forces of America's closest allies, which is hollowing out units that served alongside the US for over two decades. The UK and Australia's special forces, who often performed the hardest missions of the war under shared doctrine, are being targeted by retroactive prosecution driven by domestic political pressure rather than by evidence. The resolution demands Congress to declare politically motivated and retrospective prosecutions of allied special operators that damage the trust and interoperability that coalition warfare relies on.
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