Over the decades, the military has come to form a large part of our national identity. Each year we celebrate our beloved ANZAC heroes, singing the praises of the brave New Zealand soldiers fighting alongside our international brethren. This is of course omitting atrocities such as the killing of villagers in Surafend, Palestine, in 1918. The confusion, doubt and war crime allegations surrounding NZSAS operations in Afghanistan in the last 20 years. And more recently, sending troops into the Red Sea to defend shipments to the apartheid state of Israel. These surface as stains on the army’s ‘Good Kiwi’ identity, raising questions on the impact of those actions—the good and the bad.