Wild, wild, waste

Seen today in the print edition of the Australian Financial Review: a graphic describing the next Defence White Paper.

Aircraft represented by a silhouette of a SU-3x with canards.

A tank shown by a silhouette of a WWII Czech 38(t).

Interesting is that Australia needs a Defence White Paper (allegedly) yet purchases of C-17s and A-330 tankers just get shoved in here and there with no notice.

Latest is that the rigged Collins submarine replacement will be down from 12 to 8. That might give us 2 up at any time. Still, where real naval warfare is about surviving attrition, it will be a boutique capability.

Much like other areas of Defence.

The welfare-state that is the ever growing Defence budget (run by 170-some flag ranks) is about double of what it needs to be when you match the investment of our tax dollars to what we actually get in return.

Big ships alike the Canberra-class LHDs and the Hobart Air Warfare Destroyers, will not be cheap to  maintain.

Both in money and manpower.

This is the kind of purchasing behaviour that gets just enough for the wrong kind of toys, and not enough to sustain them over time.

Amateurish.

The entrenched Defence bureaucracy is a racket; a grand team of parasites.

Don't confuse the process you are observing with that of a reasonable approach by a nation that wants to provide for its sovereign defence.


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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
-I will wipe out bullying vows new Defence chief (Houston 2005)
-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
-The Decay Of Critical Military Thinking And Writing-With Particular Reference To The RAAF
-The great M-1 tank myth
-*UPDATE* Fear and loathing in Canberra - Audit released on MRH-90 helicopter project 
-RAN bullies contractor over Collins sub replacement
-2014-15 ADF budget shocker - Star-ranks
-Air Warfare Destroyer -- Billions, not millions over budget
-Australia's M-1 tanks are... a downgrade compared to what it had
-Weak links put on rubber-stamp Defence panel
-Insert Joke Here
-Tyranny of distance--Long, drawn out helicopter projects are unsustainable
-2014-15 ADF budget shocker - cost per flying hour over the last budget year
-Tiger savaged by Navy League of Australia
-Tiger helicopter update
-PDF file - Exploring the Impacts of the Defence Trade Controls Act 2012
-Dangerous minds: Are maths teachers Australia's newest threat?
-Government ignores its own 'rescue' report created to fix Air Warfare Destroyer woes
-DM Johnston fired in cabinet reshuffle

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