I watched Breaker Morant again today. Morant's case portrayed in the film is an excellent example (one of thousands of examples) of the British military's past use of colonial troops as scapegoats, cannon fodder and worse. Sadly the Australian government didn't learn well enough from Morant's case and allowed the British to misuse and abuse Australian troops for another 50 years. Nowdays (thankfully) Australian troops are commanded by Australians and are tried under Australian military law.
The events portrayed in Breaker Morant are actually relevant today in terms of the War on Terror, as the Boer War was a counter-insurgency war fought between British regular troops with slightly irregular colonial and volunteer units under British command, and guerilla Boer commando forces (it has been suggested that the Boer War saw the first use of the term "commando").
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