If Australia required defense, which it doesn't seem to as long as it pairs up with the US in its ongoing wars that are war crimes, would you want your soldiers trained by the Australia Defence Force Academy? After all, it took it a month to figure out that a crime was committed against a female cadet when what she thought was consensual sex turned her into pornography via Skype. 

The message to the future soldiers and military officers sent by the academy is that if crimes are committed against women, forget it. If your Minister of Defence will not let you forget it, then you at the academy take your time to figure out the charges and you do it so you won't put the boys out too much. 

Just a short court appearance and back to classes. Would you really want those to be the standards of protection in your military? It wouldn't make you feel too safe, would it? The US military is probably worse. That is why in Unmaking War, Remaking Men, I've laid out a plan for a Global Peace-Making Military.

Kathleen Barry, feminist, sociologist and Professor Emerita of Penn State University is the author of five books, the latest – Unmaking War, Remaking Men: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves is published by Spinifex Press, Australia and Phoenix Rising Press, US.