 There were also issues with the size of the attacking PAVN/VC forces and enemy dead by several authors and by the "Red Dunes Film Group", which has received criticism from an Australian Vietnam War veteran and later historian and Vietnamese-language linguist Ernie Chamberlain.In 2015, Harry Smith published "Long Tan, The Start of a Lifelong Battle" in which he accused senior officers including Jackson and Townsend of fabricating claims about the battle, and alleged that the official history was disingenuous and self-serving.This included deliberate inflation of enemy dead by Army Spokesmen and others, and embellishing the roles of officers at the battle at the expense of their men.