The co-author of Australia’s Defence Strategic Review has sounded the alarm about what he describes as a lack of lethality in the navy’s surface fleet.
Former Defence Force chief Sir Angus Houston called on the Albanese government to hasten progress to make missiles on shore.
Sir Angus also criticised Beijing’s increased military activity in the South China Sea.
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Stunning
Ban Assault Boats
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"Why aren't we more deadly?"
"Why aren't you more deadly for us?"
"It's not fair! They should be less deadly!"
Absolutely neutral and in no way whatsoever provocative statements an undoubtedly professional politician would make.
straight from the mouth of the usa
This government should immediately scrap the stage three tax cuts and use the funds that will be freed up to spend a great deal more on rapidly improving the capabilities of our defence forces. It is not beyond the ability of Australians to understand that we lack fuel reserves and don’t even have the capacity to manufacture our own munitions. This government must also ensure that it compels foreign multinationals to pay their fair share of taxes on the resources extracted from our soils.
Australia's military is far too small to achieve the task required of it as it is vastly dwarfed in terms of numbers of personnel and equipment by all of its neighbours. How can we defend ourselves when we don’t even have the capacity to manufacture our own munitions?
This is the result of decades of underfunding and neglect by our politicians who prefer to focus on quality of lifestyle type issues at the expense of fundamental matters of existence. Enabling this strategic apathy and negligence is the misguided belief that US military power is nearly unlimited and globally dominant and that it would automatically come to the defence of Australia should any of her neighbours attack her.
The US is not obligated under the ANZUS Alliance to send troops or equipment to our aid in the event of an attack upon us. They are only obligated to engage in talks with us and nothing more. We must provide for our own defence.
Our politicians need to explain to the public that rights and privileges go hand in hand with responsibilities, one of which is the defence of the nation. We need to introduce national service and link its completion by individuals to their right to access the many benefits of being a citizen of this country.
Australia is an under-armed country that needs to spend a great deal more on defence than it has in the past. We need to spend our wealth on building up our military instead of allowing foreign corporations to sell off our mineral wealth and pay nothing in tax and, in some cases, even receiving taxpayer-funded handouts. We need to spend our wealth on a nuclear weapons capability and not give it away for nothing to tax avoiding corporations.
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIIA2ve6fW4