A long list

A strategy for sea power…

…for Australia.

Here are the challenges:

1.A Soviet-industry style in the form of the ASC and DMO
2.A destructive DMO
3.Rent-seekers and politicians that believe rent-seekers.
4.Flawed requirements (example: SEA-1000 which can only be filled by a nuclear powered U.S. Virginia-class attack sub.
5.With today’s Entrenched Defence Bureaucracy, the idea of thrift is banned. The idea of spend-thrift is encouraged.
6.Deskilled flag ranks.
7.Too many RAN flag ranks.
8.Not giving the ship commander and top enlisted person of a boat or RAN facility the responsibility of commander’s non-judicial punishment and other preventive measures that improve moral; stop personnel problems before they get big and increase the fighting power of the sailors.

Let us look at the Hobart-class, Air Warfare Destroyer. It is used as a new requirement but is also just a legacy and obsolete requirement for business as usual. They in effect, replace the old Perth-class guided missile destroyers that were there for the now-gone aircraft carrier.

The Canberra-class LHDs are too big and too expensive for our needs. They should be parked because they will consume too much ops money and crew. They are built around a fantasy requirement to move a large force when in-fact, many smaller, scalable ships (like landing craft and bigger ships in the style of a WWII LST) would be more useful for our area of interest including disaster response and other-than-war, security ops.

No matter what your position about the illegal boat problem, what Australia needs are more patrol boats.

Our current frigates are good. Replacements should be built sooner rather than later (for example, any discussion about a 4th Hobart class to be built shows a desire to rob the taxpayer and nothing more). There is enough ship building work to be done with new frigates, patrol boats and various axillaries.

Strategy: we do not need to be sending a frigate off to the Middle East to do patrols. There is plenty of work for our ships to do locally.

The submarine issues are covered here.

Other than that, Australia has no credible naval strategy.


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-New Defence White Paper fails to address Australia's core security needs
-2009 Defence White Paper Fantasy
-Analysing "The ADF Air Combat Capability- On the Record"
-Find out who is responsible for the Air Warfare Destroyer mess
-Analysis of Defence Materiel Organisation Major Projects Management and What Needs to be Fixed
-New DMO Boss warns the staff that business as usual is over
-How dangerous is the Defence Material Organisation to our Defence Industry?
-Australia's Failing Defence Structure and Management Methodology
-More on the dud-jamming gear Defence wants to buy
-ADF cost per flying hour
-Illegal boat-people problem update 
-Vacancy
-Put Vol 2 Report of DLA Piper Review into the light of day
-Rory and Jim
-Parasitism as an Abstraction for Organizational Dysfunctions
-Hobart-class "Air Warfare Destroyer" to be fielded with obsolete radar guidance technology

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