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…
by ROGER CROOK – GOD help us if communist China becomes more restless. How on earth did Australia, a nation with a proud military history, finish up with a modern version of Dad’s Army? We are being told we are closer to…
FOLLOWING are excerpts from General Erwin Rommel’s The Rommel Papers (1953), which reproduces letters from Rommel to his wife, in three of which he mentions Australian soldiers. Erwin Rommel was the German field marshal who led the German and Italian forces in North Africa during the Second World War.
AUSTRALIAN soldiers have been ordered not to engage in cross-gender dress-ups as new Defence Minister Peter Dutton prepares the armed forces for possible conflict. After years of governments pandering to a military obsessed with gender fluidity and political correctness, Mr Dutton has finally told the armed services to “get back to business”.
THE Chinese regime’s mouthpiece, Global Times, has criticised Australia’s increased national security spending, accusing Canberra of “further escalating regional confrontation”. The newspaper’s report on Wednesday titled “Canberra’s Defence Spending Means More Economic Carnage,” also accused Australia of “relentless and unreasonable provocations” and warned of retaliation.
THE drums of war are indeed beating. And it may well be that Australia will again be sending her warriors overseas. These are “brutal truths”, notwithstanding Canberra’s denigration of our soldiers’ ancient “warrior culture”. After all, is it still not the aim of the army to kill the enemy, and to accept for themselves, as Pericles said “joyfully”, the risk of death?
CHINA continues to be completely unnerved by Australia despite its economic strength and growing military might. After more than 70 years controlling its own citizens – by force if necessary – the Chinese Communist Party is increasingly frustrated at not being able to control Australians.
THE US State Department will soon sign-off a A$2.6b arms deal to the Australian government for 160 new Abrams tanks and four Chinook helicopters. The sale comes amid Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s pledge last year to increase defence spending in response to rising geopolitical tension in the Indo-Pacific region.
AUSTRALIA’s defence chiefs have been told to quit their bleeding-heart posturing and to toughen up. After years of governments pandering to a military obsessed with gender fluidity and political correctness, new Defence Minister Peter Dutton has ordered the armed services to “get back to business”.
OUR SAS have been appallingly treated.Why has the government, with the high command, effectively declared war on Australian soldiers who served in Afghanistan, including those who died?
