Actually the problem is that the australian are often considered as british troops and it is not the case as Australia was an independant state after 1931.

It's like the canadian but not like the indians troops which were actually british troops but not only because india had it own flag...

For a frenchman, this seems very very complicate. For us, at least, our colonial empire was very easy to be understand: Algeria was part of france and the other countries weren't but were totally subordinate to France and they had no armies, only soldiers that served in one army, the French one. Appreciate how simple it was. But it was also complicate to deal with this, our colonies cost more money and they often were rebellions.

Maybe is a different vision of the problem: i think that the british often have complicate but intelligent and efficient ways to deal with the probleme, while we are intelligent too but more brutal, simple and direct ( do talk to me of some battles of a certain war) but it isn't always the case.

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