Welcome to our highly anticipated 'War in the Sand Pit' conference series of videos. The conference was held in Brisbane on 12-13 May 2017 and was sponsored by Military History & Heritage Victoria, the Australian National University, and the Returned & Services League of Australia, Queensland Branch. We hope you enjoy all the presentations which the speakers have generously agreed to share with us.

The presentations represent the speakers' personal views based on their own experiences, and the context relevant to them and their individual role at the time. This presentation on the intervention in Afghanistan is delivered by Brigadier Dan McDaniel, DSC, AM, DSM the former Commanding Officer of the Special Air Service Regiment.

Brigadier Dan McDaniel, DSC, AM, DSM is a senior officer in the Australian Army and was the Commanding Officer of the Special Air Service Regiment from 2007-2008. He was the Special Operations Commander from 2013-2014.