Living in the 'Latter Days'

Australia is surrounded by a marvellous moat - we need bayonets on the beaches, eagles in the sky, killer whales on the seas and lots of savage piranha underneath.

And we need an armed population. John Howard needs to be forever condemned for disarming honest people and then destroying all those confiscated guns. One day we will need them. (No gangsters or terrorists surrender their arms.)

In 1181, Henry 1 made it obligatory for EVERY able bodied man to keep arms, and America won the war of independence with armed militia. In the early days of WW2 the British trained with shotguns and broomsticks and Churchill pleaded with America for arms. Yet Australia pretends we have decades of time for labour unions to build our own submarines and some politician felt secure enough to scrap and bury 23 old but airworthy F111 aircraft at Swanbank in Queensland.

Politicians love costly high-tech stuff. But numbers play a key role in any battle. Thousands of armed drones controlled by scattered individuals may be more effective than one massively expensive high-tech fighter plane. Soon a sailor with a rocket in a row boat may be able to threaten an aircraft carrier.

Effective defence needs community involvement and self-sufficiency

If today's Australia was involved in an armed engagement we would rapidly exhaust fuel and ammunition supplies. For these there are only two options - make it here, or store it here. It is too late to look for it even one day after a war starts.

Source: David Archibald: https://wentworthreport.com/climate-debate-belmont-rsl-25th-october-2022/

Australian politicians have "solved" the looming fuel famine - they negotiated to buy crude oil stocks. But we will need a very long fuel delivery hose because these stocks are in America, part of their strategic stockpile. And is anyone keeping an eye on what Biden is doing with that oil? Australia at war would soon face a manpower crisis. We cannot find people to harvest our food, so the flat-white brigade is unlikely to line up for military service. Hopefully we can rely on bikie gangs to step up? They can probably bring their own guns.

The cadet movement has been a valuable prep-school for recruitment and training for the armed services since 1903. But it has been gutted. Gough Whitlam disbanded the cadet corps in 1975 and since then it has been a political plaything. Judging from its web site, it is now a toughened-up girl guides unit.

Officialdom has also been largely hostile to rifle clubs which teach small arms skills, the Army Reserve is just a plaything, and today's youth are told it is wrong to fight, no matter how provoked.

Timid Tim was taught "It is wrong to fight," But Roaring Bill who killed him, Thought it was all right.