Quote: (01-30-2017 08:06 PM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:
I'm surrounded by fairly tough folks, given that I live in the country.
Even during WW2 there was still a good ratio of people living and working rurally. People who knew how to do dangerous jobs, shoot a gun and were familiar with the sight of blood.
How a modern war would look if it ever reached out to Australia is beyond me.
That's easy. Australia gets its four submarines sunk in about half an hour, burns through its entire ammo supply and most of its tanks in about 4 weeks trying to hold a perimeter around Cairns, and then a nuclear-armed US carrier group shows up. After all, that's essentially the Australian defence strategy, and why we keep putting literally our best troops -- typically SAS -- into wars with the US. I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad idea: it might be a blood price we pay, but it's a blood price a hell of a lot smaller than we'd pay if we had to defend the entire northwest WA through northeast QLD coast all by ourselves.
Remissas, discite, vivet.
God save us from people who mean well. -storm