Could Australia defend itself? – Michael West

The fact that the Australian defense force supporters are more closely integrated with the US army and AUKUS seems to have been convinced that the US needs to defend ourselves. Old Senator and Submariner, Rex Patrickexplains why they were wrong.

Although China’s increasing military power in the United States and Australia and clearly concerns about how this power can be used, no one thinks that China has the desire to attack Australia. However, for the purpose of defense, we plan in a worse situation and thus evaluating whether Australia can defend itself, the Chinese attack is an appropriate scenario to discover.

Nuclear attack

China is estimated to have more than 500 operational nuclear warpatches and will be more than 1,000 by 2030. Most of them are US air and military bases in the US targets-GUAM and Hawaii, in the regions of the US allies in Northeast Asia-Japan and South Korea; List of strategic facilities and cities growing in the United States of United States.

And as China enters the abundance of nuclear weapons, there will be long-range missiles and war titles for the US-related targets-Pine GAP, near Elice Springs, will be the submarine communication station near Exmouth, the RAAF base in Darwin and Perth’s Naval facilities in Garden Island.

It is clear that the US military presence in Australia increases the likelihood of guiding us by China.

Our best protection against the risk of nuclear war is a government support policy for mutual deterrence and effective weapon control system. In this, the AUKUS program, Australia’s past diplomatic participation against nuclear weapons control and soliferation is not useful because Australia is trying to persuade Australia to be allowed to persuade the arms -graded plutonium from reactors of US and British supply submarine reactors.

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The persecution of traditional conflict and distance

It is a very difficult thing to start a traditional attack on Australia.

Geography is our great advantage. What historian Geoffrey Blainey calls “the persecution of distance ır is a major problem for any country that wants to attack Australia. II. During World War II, the occupation of Australia was a very distant bridge for the Empire Japanese army and navy as operational and logistics. During the Cold War, Australia made a cheap defense because there was no traditional military threat from the Soviet Union.

We are on a long road from China, a ‘trench’ and we help us with an uninhabitable width between a hostile power that falls on our northern shores, and between our large population centers.

First of all, we can defend ourselves if we logically re -allocate the cost of eight Aukus submarines to focus on Australia’s defense.

Here is how.

Keep a clock

In order to support Australia’s independent defense, an intelligence capacity that focuses on primary strategic interests is very important. This will include cooperation with other countries (as part of 5YES), the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, defense -oriented espionage and Australian Signals Directorate, secret submarine intelligence missions and intelligence collection.

Open Source Intelligence Should not be downloaded.

In addition, we need an extremely talented surveillance ability to identify, define and monitor potentially hostile forces that act on our military interest.

Australia should invest in satellite surveillance system (5B $, leave $ 363B 368 billion dollars of AUKUS program in the available funds) Longreach in Queensland, Longreach in WA, Longreach, Laverton and NT Alice Springs and P-8 Naval Patrol and intervention fillet on the funds available to 8 to 20 aircraft) ($ 6B, $ 357b).

We should also invest in deploying long -range acoustic systems ($ 1B, $ 356b), for example, in places such as Christmas island to detect and define foreign submarines transitioning the Lombok Strait.

In our northern approaches, we should make sure that we have reliable ships and submarines with well -trained crews and submarines, especially near the southern output points of Indonesian archipelago.

Defend the trenches

Australia’s defense will lead to conflict and require sea and air rejection.

To do this, we need all relevant defense assets in order to start a sea strike missile and a common strike missile, stand-off-reference missiles at a Kongsberg facility built in Newcastle.

These missiles will be an important ability in our 20 -driven submarines (independent of air ($ 30B, $ 326b), 10 more frigated surface fleet (more expanded surface fleet$ 10b, $ 316b), F-35 common strike warriors and P-8 Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft.

We also need to increase our air capabilities with additional fighter aircraft ($ 25b, 291B $) Sea strike, land and more air fuel supply capacity ($ 1b $, $ 290bto support this fighter aircraft. We also need to improve our anti -air defenses ($ 1b, $ 289b).

We must expand our ability to use sea mines closer to the shore. II. Since World War II, the mines have been damaged and sunk more than other vehicles; These are a highly effective asymmetric weapon in which ADF has recently re -entered its inventory, and we must expand our capabilities and capacity in this field. ($ 1b, $ 288b).

At the same time, we need to support our anti -Submarin war capabilities in order to protect our sea strips, to stop foreign submarines passing through the suffocating points in our northern approaches and to protect our new strategic fleet (($ 20B, 268b $), Prime Minister Albania promised but does not deliver, constantly economic activity and the defense effort in our northern coastal waters are critical to support

Defense, Protection of Economic and Population Assets

While protecting Australia, we need to consider keeping our north, sea and large ports open to enemy mines. Australia’s mines counter measures were atrophied. This should be reversed ($ 5b, 263B $).

Returning to the ground forces, we need to be able to deal with lodgings in our region or in our major raids. We should be supported by our geography, while opposing the March of the south, we need to be able to supply our forces to the north. We need to double our heavy air purchase feature with a larger shipping aircraft (4B $, $ 259b).

Lessons from Ukraine are particularly relevant; The rise of drone systems and the power architectures and the effects of the land war, the effects of electronic war on the modern war area, the difficulties of maintaining logistics in a controversial environment (great distances that pay attention to supporting Australian forces at the upper end and air defense.

In addition to existing army programs, Australia should spend money to benefit from the learned courses. We should invest in drone and anti-done capabilities (2B $, $ 257B), domestic electronic war capabilities ($ 5b, $ 252B), 12 additional tactical transport aircraft (2B $, $ 250B), 48 additional auxiliary helicopters (2B $, $ 248b), unmanned ground logistics tools (2B $, $ 246b) and shoulder firearmswar missiles (2B $, $ 244b).

Other priorities

The distance is not an obstacle to effective cyber war. Australia should ensure that our high electronic and network -related public services are not spoiled by conflict. We need to increase investment in our cyber war capabilities ($ 5b, $ 239B).

We also need to consider a large gap in our fuel security. We have at least 90 days of fuel resources (in the country ($ 8b, $ 231B) and critical goods to a flexible general industrial capability and self -sufficiency ($ 60B, $ 171b) Will continue to run the country during the conflict (or a pandemi).

Fuel safety. What happens if the heads start to be dry?

We need to learn more about our Ukrainian friends and increase the ability and capacity to produce missiles and other ammunition. This includes the full range of the weapons we use, from small arms to missiles, to torpedo, and rapidly exhausted. An investment of 10 billion dollars is required ($ 5b, $ 166b).

Finally, the government should stop starting to start highly cost -effective and risky defense programs. Some should buy ready -made skills that are logical and developed by the Australian industry. The sector will need to be structured to maintain all our critical military capabilities on land.

Yes we can

When the US became more and more unreliable, it is time for Australia to focus on independence in defense. No one can believe that we are the most important friend of the United States (the Prime Minister is still trying to have a meeting with Trump) or they will stand with us in the conflict. Those days have passed.

Although China attacking Australia is a distant possibility, the worst, we must plan the Australian invasion. The good news is that the distance persecution works in our favor. Australia can defend itself independently with determination and reform in defense supply. We can make ourselves so hard and difficult that nobody will try or try to force us.

The figures on this article show that we can cancel AUKUS and that we can do more and do more for education, to remain over $ 150 billion in consolidated income to make more efficiency, economic progress and social support.

Stupid Ways of Purchase: Defense “Swimbles” announced – Old Submariner and Senator Rex Patrick

Rex Patrick is a former senator of South Australia and a submarine in the armed forces. Rex, known as the best fight against corruption and transparency crusaders, “Transparent warrior. “