An Unwinnable War charts the motives, ambitions and negotiations that carried Australia into Afghanistan.

A decade on from the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Australians are embroiled in one of the nation’s longest military conflict-the war in Afghanistan. ;An Unwinnable War charts the motives, ambitions and negotiations that carried Australia into Afghanistan- from the then Prime Minister John Howard’s presence in Washington DC on September 11, 2001 to the ‘transition’ plan to hand security to Afghan forces - all played out in the wake of increasing casualties.
;Based on interviews with key political and military figures in Australia and abroad, An Unwinnable War lays bare the tensions between political and military decision-making, the nature and potency of the US alliance and the influence of individual personalities in charting Australia’s course in what was once dubbed the ‘good war’.