by FRED PAWLE – THE Australian Defence Force is so feeble it can’t even hit its own recruitment targets.
It has fallen short every year since 2012, and now sits at a total of 59k personnel, a massive 21k short of its 2040 goal.
- Young people are taught at school that their country is a genocidal colony.
- That it’s full of bogans destroying the planet with V8 cars and plastic straws.
- If I was fighting age, I wouldn’t defend that kind of nation either.
Our country has never been more vulnerable, and the world has rarely been more volatile. China, our most likely adversary, has a ready defence force of about four million troops.
There are many reasons why so few young people have signed up to the defence force.
BOGANS
For a start, they are taught at school that their country is a genocidal colony full of bogans who are destroying the planet with their V8 cars and plastic straws.
If I was fighting age, I wouldn’t defend that kind of nation either.
And those are just the Australian-born citizens. More than 10 per cent of Australian residents are here on temporary visas, and have only an economic – not a cultural or emotional – affinity with the country.
They will be leaving their Ubers at the airport at the first whiff of grapeshot.
Regardless, the ADF must still find new recruits. So it has come up with two cunning plans.
First, it has released an app to help fat, unhealthy potential recruits get fit enough to squeeze into the force’s most accommodating XL uniform.
Being healthy used to be its own reward, but not anymore.
This generation of phone-obsessed participation-award winners needs an incentive to get off the couch – and Defence Personnel Minister Matt Keogh knows it.
UNIQUE
“Being paid to stay fit and healthy is one of the many benefits of joining the ADF, along with a range of other experiences, great pay and unique conditions,” he says.
The ADF will also now admits foreigners into its ranks.
Citizens from Canada, Britain, New Zealand and the United States can become Diggers on the condition that they also apply to become citizens of Australia, which will duly be granted after only 90 days’ service.
This is remarkably naive. As the elites in Britain are currently discovering to their enormous surprise, just because you have a British passport doesn’t mean you don’t also want to rape as many of its young women as you can, destroy its institutions and burn the country to the ground.
By historic standards, these are unfailingly reliable signs of being a military adversary.
And as the late New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar demonstrated in the US, joining the military and hating one’s fellow citizens are not as mutually exclusive as they once were.
Despite everything, Australia is still one of the freest and richest nations on Earth. To give away citizenship this way is like St Peter opening the gates of Paradise to OJ Simpson because he had a spotless driving record.
This whole strategy is selling the country far too short. The fact that people need to be cajoled into moving to, then defending, a country like Australia should be yet another reminder to our politicians that something seismic has happened to Australia since the last time it found itself in a major conflict.
Most of the Diggers who died defending the nation would be rolling in their graves if they knew that politicians – who espouse the timid platitudes of multiculturalism – are trying to pass censorship laws that would make Hitler or Mao blush.
Both of the ADF’s new recruitment strategies exclude the one and only reason a young man or woman needs to enlist in the defence force: an appreciation of what they inherited and a sense of obligation to those they will one day pass it on to.
But that kind of thing is not taught in schools anymore, so the likelihood of it being deployed in an ADF recruitment drive will continue to diminish.
Instead, the ADF will become increasingly desperate.
One day we will see ads pleading for members of specific ethnic minorities to pop into a friendly recruitment office, where an officer speaking their language will explain the many benefits of signing up.
By then, though, there will nothing left to defend.PC
– Fred Pawle
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I served in the ADF for 27 years, and spent another 13 years with RAAF and Navy. I come from a military family-Dad and Mum both served in three Allied Armies, collectively 40 years. Why? Well, the fella with the short, black mustache made things difficult and freedom from Nazism and the Rising Sun were to be destroyed and replaced with “freedom” or democracy. The baton has been passed down but unfortunately the Govt is not selling Australia in a way that it should. Also wages are better outside with fewer restrictions. Multiculturalism is fine for those that are so grateful to come to this wonderful country, then they should be prepared to defend it. Bring back (like Israel) National Service and start appreciating your country.
The left play the long game. The communist teacher’s unions successfully eliminated history as a compulsory subject from the syllabus 20 years ago. Then they change history and paint our indigenous population as helpless, discriminated against minorities and waste billions on mindless programs.
Meanwhile the Liberal Party has been asleep at the the wheel ignoring their silent minority while moving to the left of Hawke Keating and letting Marxism flourish throughout the obscenely bloated and sedentary public service to the point they only help themselves.
The rot began in the schools and Unis and the media. These sections of Australia, and indeed the West, are TRAITORS! Trump will address some of these malignant parts of the US but here in Australia the bureaucracy has been weaponised against the people as well.
I don’t know what the solution is. It’s certainly not reason or common sense. The majority of the people still retain a reasonable view as the result of the VOICE referendum showed. But alp/greens governments at the state level are bringing in mini voices. The left don’t care about democracy or the people and until more of the people realise that things will get worse.
“Australia is still one of the freest and richest nations on Earth”
LOL! Australians are only “free” until the government imposes yet another permission required, prohibition or restriction on its subjects. Australian “citizenship” is a lie. You are a Subject with no rights, treated like cattle. The governments can stop you crossing State borders at any time and the High Court rules that you don’t even have the right to move around freely in your own State. There is no free speech except for narrowly delineated reasons.
Who would bother to defend it?