as an ex soldier - conscription is a big NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I do like the idea of the magistrate having the power to divert people from prison to the military- it wont work for every crook, but has the potential to channel good people, who need guidance, into a great place
With only 60,000 active military personnel in Australia, I doubt very much that China are worried about us. China is also the 2nd largest donor of foreign aid to Indonesia behind only Singapore.
Every single person I have spoken to in Australia has supported national conscription, not in the traditional way but in a modern supportive way that frees our military from smaller tasks so they can do the more important work
Don’t think all Aussies are disarmed nether ! Our gun laws might be over tight but a lot of us have weapon licences! We got a big country and lots and lots of country boys that shoot !! 😂
Seppos think we have none but there's 3million more firearms in Australia than before the buyback we have great gunlaws not everyone should own one Americans wouldn't pass the mental criteria to own one here and I'm fine with that 😊
As an Aussie I support conscription in peace times to instill discipline and training in skills needed in war times. Its too late after war has started to sufficiently train new military personnel
I guess learning about our military is all too hard. You might find out those who are actually concerned and yes China is one of them. Might have something to do with us going to have more quiet nuclear submarines then what they do... hot tip, you don't spy on people like they do to us if your not concerned.
As an Aussie, l support a system of a compulsory 18 months training in the ADF. Our military needs to be tripled in size to defend this country. More of everything.
The word being DEFENCE not OFFENCE for which they have been used by the craven Rothschild led USUK criminal alliance scumbags for at various places around the world !!!!
@garg1961 Problem is they don't want people who wanta be there . They want people who fit there guidelines PERIOD! Unfortunately that means, their not serious about defence. I'm not really sure , what their motivation & goals are , but it's not defence in depth of the Australian mainland.
America couldn't identify the difference between New Zealand flag in this video & Australian flag like they couldn't at the Solamon Island in WW2 when America torpedoed 1 of our battle ships killing all 300 sailor's. 🇦🇺 While the Australian battle ship was giving cover fire for U.S soldiers 😡
I will say that people aged 18 to 25 who are out of work are not thinking. Army, Navy or Air Force pay is high and gives you skills to find a job later.
From an ex servicemen “ why join an army that sends you fight someone else’s fight and then force you to retreat and runaway after you achieve superiority you hand it back to the enemy ! Old men send young men to war and finally our young men are starting saying No More
My daughter is looking into this. She believes it will open doors for her future. I reminded her that it can open doors to ptsd, disability or worse. It can permanently close the door to her life. I'm by no means trying to discourage her. I'm just advising her walk into this with open eyes and an open mind. There's no reward without risk.
If you finish school and just want to sit on the dole, then welcome to conscription. Do your 4 yrs get some form of skills behind you and earn a living
Neal, its truly appreciative that you have such a keen like for Australia and its military. A lot of Australians never have to worry because of the work they do, that is never seen.
@venderstrat yes, and they have different names. NATO is literally called the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. So as I said, AUSTRALIA IS NOWHERE NEAR THE NORTH ATLANTIC.
@@gretschcorvette73 this is true. 1. I'm still confused about that, and 2. I think Eurovision and NATO may be slightly different organisations with different entry requirements. 😂
It's not so much our weapons and vehicles that China is in awe of, it's our ability to adapt to any circumstance and succeed, any terrain and we adapt and overcome, this is why the UK, the US, Japan, Some Indonesia countries, Canada, and Iceland armies come to Australia to be taught our tactics in warfare, we train non stop, and our special forces are ranked among the highest in the world including being praised by ex special forces people around the world
I am an Australian if we were invaded by anyone our army would fall very quickly we have nothing we can't even defend 100 miles of coast line and we have much coast line. No we are not able to defend ourselves at all bro
I immigrated here from America in 1983 and love it here. I have lived here longer than where I was born. This is my stompin' ground now. China has no fear of us at all. We do not have enough people or a big enough military. We would need help from our Allies to survive. The soldiers here are tough and well trained but never could we on our own go toe to toe with China
The main reason China would invade is to gain access to our minerals...eg iron ore. It is, as noted by others very difficult to move across Australia and occupy it. Distance, heat, lack of water, bad country and a host of other reasons hinders them. But they don't need the whole country, just the Pilbara. Occupying that would be easy. And the reasons making it hard to move into the rest of Australia make it equally hard for the ADF to advance into the Pilbara. Would the US help under the terms of the ANZUS treaty...? Yes, I believe they would but what is needed is logistical solutions from them...things Australia does not have such as large numbers of transport planes/jets for transporting fuel, equipment, food, water, medical and so on. Of course, that requires AWACS planes, attack aircraft etc etc
Unfortunately, our government has DISARMED the vast majority of Australians, unlike Switzerland who has ARMED all its citizens so has never been invaded.
@@wyattfamily8997 The vast majority of Australians were never armed... The only armed Swiss citizens are those who have completed the compulsorily military service ie males, for which they are paid as little as 3 Swiss francs per day. Many conscripts choose other services to fulfil their obligation to the state. And a lot are not military in nature. Switzerland is a mountainess country and it's bridges and passes are mined and fortified It has its many jets in hidden revetments all around the country and so on and so forth. It is these features which deterred Germany in the 2WW and invaders today...not the armed Militia
Our army is so small it is laughable when compared on the world stage, no one is in fear of Australia, they could airdrop in tomorrow and dominate majority of the domestic public without any pushback since majority in AU are unarmed... We are a joke militarily and so is this video, thanks for the laugh.
good luck hitting australian soil b4 american navy teams in port hedland and stantioned around australia are deployed lol, i bet you didnt know but new zealands military is smaller then australias but new zealands sas team is better then any navy seal team, including seal team 6. lol our side of the world is put in high regards with the other countries we fight with :)
@Gworzoh this is modern warfare, if the war in Ukraine taught us anything pulling up a navy fleet would be suicide these days... The battlefield has changed. Our little SAS and NZ forces will get destroyed just like every other conflict NZ has found themselves in.
@@Gworzoh except it isn't 1935 anymore, if the current war has taught us anything it's that the Navy isn't as dominate a force in modern warfare as it used to be beside their subs, it would be selfdeletion to pull up with a navy fleet as a first response to a country you are invading in modern times, our countries haven't been at war with a rich nation who can almost equal our technology, the following war will be nothing like any we've experienced before... We are put in high regards for carrying out the dirty jobs the US won't go near as we saw in iraq etc, you'll need more then 500 elite SAS members to have an effect, the pool they are drawing from is much much larger then ours.. :)
@@spazzlo8356 i mean nz sas lead the seal team to osama bin laden and also assisted in sadam because the top of the top teams failed 🤣 and no this wasnt near any world war era, have you seen how advanced war is now half of the military vehicles would get taken out with a drone these days lol people can fight a war now days eithout physically being there lol but if you need close quarter combat nz and aus sas dominate that field
@@spazzlo8356 whats more of a laugh is how small our army is but how highly skilled and trained we are, im not sure you know much about the special forces teams we have, we have the best special forces teams in the world, uk sas laugh at ozzi sas but salute nz sas hahaha
Australia is probably one of the best Guerrilla warfare fighters on the planet. The fact that we train continuously 6 months a year in rugged and unhospitable areas on the planet allows us to understand how we can fight in our country. When we have to go to war in any place other than Australia we have a natural understanding and situational awareness that belies our tiny size.
Your theory doesn't hold... What about the Japanese in WW2. Aussies had their arses handed to them and had to rely on the allies for help. We have fk all army to this day.
Luckily our teens at many high schools still join the cadet corps, but with rising teenage crime I wonder if national service should be brought back now (at least it promotes self discipline, good health and self confidence)! We are mostly able to build our own vehicles and electronic equipment, we will be building more naval equipment asap! We constantly train around the world and the quality of our armed forces is excellent! Currently our army is spread worldwide as peacekeepers! 👍
Not even close. China already owns us with great swathes of farmland, a number of airports and our northern most sea port, plus a lot of the southern pacific island nations have Chinese bases now. Our toddlers are learning woke ideology while theres are learning to reload a weapon. Ours are overly molly coddled while theres are learning martial arts on masse. Anytime they feel like marching in, we're screwed.
Hey don’t give us away….half of Australia is an underground nuclear facility aimed at global security breaches let’s just say…yes we have an Area 51 in Antartica it’s been there from before Roswell.
I think that if China wanted they could easily field 100 million soldiers and they have the manufacturing base to support a mobilization of that scale. If Australia conscripted every able bodied person who wasn't required for essential services we could field 1 million soldiers, but have zero manufacturing base to arm, equip or sustain any protracted conflict. Our manufacturing complex is by far the lowest in the developed world and lags behind South Africa and New Zealand. We have no domestic strategic fuel reserves. In 4 weeks we run out of petroleum. Our strategic reserves are being held in... Wait for it... Wait for it... The USA.. Yes we pay the Yanks to store fuel for us, half way around the other side of the world so that we can use it in an emergency.. We are just a big unsinkable aircraft carrier for the USA, that happens to be sitting on (By far) the larges mineral deposits in the world. No, we don't do anything with them. We just dig that shit up and send it to China, where they make useful things and then we buy it back at grossly inflated prices.. We don't even sell our own natural Gas domestically. We export it to Japan, and then buy it back at grossly inflated prices. Why bother invade Australia, China and others are already getting everything we have to offer practically free. Our politicians are among the cheapest on earth. Why invade when you can buy a cheap politician and get everything at rock bottom prices. . Hell we even subsidize foreign companies to dig up our raw materials. And we subsidize the cost of importing the value added products back to Australia.. So yes. the tax payer, gives money to foreign companies to dig up the wealth of the land, and then we pay the postage cost for other Chinese companies to send goods back to Australia. Its cheaper to send a parcel from China to a domestic address in Australia than it is to post it domestically. Why. Because we subsidize the costs. Australia has already been invaded. The take over of Canberra happened years ago. Should you join the Australian Defense force and defend England. Yes our soldiers first duty is to the Crown and not the Australian people. A recent High Court case against a whistleblower who reported war Crimes committed by the ADF where the defendant (A soldier) argued that he had a duty to act in the best interest of the Australian people and report the war crime. The High Court ruled that his oath which he took on becoming a soldier is to the Crown (King Charles) and not to the Australian people. He is now in Prison. God save our gracious king, long live our noble King!
Conscription/mandated service would be the best thing for australia! Leave school 6 years in service and qualified in a trade... Its why china russia and korea dont have useless people
Un-Manned jets means nobody lost in the sky during battle haha, But you have to imagine once those jets are fully stable and reliable all countries will be trying to buy the technology
ADF is currently seeking to bolster troops from us, canada and uk due to low recruitment and soldiers leaving the force at higher than normal numbers...Equipment and technology doesnt equate to much, when our morale is abysmal due to nanny state woke fueled agenda running rampant in australia. Who wants to fight for a country that has been let go of? Majority of australians cant even own a patch of land, who or what are we going to fight for? Rich politicians with multiple propety portfolios? or mass migration with non compatible cultures? No one wants to die or fight for Australia, patriotism is non existant...saying aussie aussie aussie, oi oi oi is akin to a racism cry it feels these days. What a joke
No good waiting for a war before conscription is bought in because then half trained soldiers are going to fight battles they aren't prepared for. Give each person of a certain age full-time training and they can be called up if needed
As an ex Aussie digger I also do not believe in conscription, however perhaps some form may help keep our youth from the wrong path in life. Not sure if this will go down well with some but do not give a F, also remember every country that has attacked us it did not go well for them! Good wishes to everyone and happy new year.
we basically are, do you think that if a european war broke out and the u.s went to war with russia and china that we would really be able to just sit it out? we wouldn’t be able to even if our government wanted to, there’s also anzus which would put even more pressure on us to join with the u.s at war.
Our military isn't that great. Our emergency fuel surplus is 30 days of normal tempo. We are an island. We have 55,000 combat personnel. Combat ships 26 by 2040s Combat planes 84 Combat vehicles 1600 not all delivered The main problem is the infrastructure. Railways and highways is the biggest issues. The distances between bases and support from allied partners
While we have a housing crisis ,employed families living in tents the defence budget should be zero ,we are a peace keeping nation that's all ,waiting money on equipment that by the time it's built it outdated
Damn straight we're not playing. We defeated the Japanese in New Guinea during WW2, outnumbered 9 to 1 after the Americans abandoned us. Our SASR is second only to the British SAS.
Just pray that no one ever calls Australia's bluff. There's holes everywhere in equipment and training. Haven't improved much from the 'barely completed' Timor debacle. Where the best troops on the ground were 200 Gurkha's as outside international help.
As an aussie i can assure you this, we have a recruitment crisis and not enough equipment to go around. China is not concerned about us, the only reason they don't attack us is because they feat american retaliation. Soon that won't be a problem. China outnumbers us and has far more naval vessels and firepower all round from land, sea to air. We have a small handfull of decent aircraft but we are far from war ready. The brics group is not afraid of the west as the members are among the richest and heavily manned military on earth. We also all owe china money. We need to conscript if we ever hope to have a chance of being on the world stage for much longer. I was a cadet but they still won't accept my application. Our government is making us weak on purpose because china owns alot of land over here so now their "opinions" matter to our "leaders" We aussies are not in a good place. Second. Rights only exist because of the force application, fight the enemy that wants to remove our rights. Fight them because of duty. Conspription ain't about removal of rights, it's about our duty to protect them when others force theirs onto us again'st our will... better to fight a battle you hate then to throw everyones life away to placate your delicate sensibilities.
I think it would be good for the young people to do at least 1 year of military service when they turn 18 years old. I find most of the young these days don't have as much respect for authority, other people and property. A bit of discipline might correct this pattern of behaviour that has developed.
This whole "young people these days" has been going on for thousands of years. It's crap. "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and chatter in the place of exercise.” Socrates said this 2400 years ago. The children haven't changed, it's just easy to forget what it's like to be a child. I chose to serve in the Army Reserve when I was 17 and then the ARA. I don't think it should be compulsory though.
The clip is a bit muddled and dated. The Defence budget is more like 2% of gdp. The tanks have been replaced with a newer model and most of the the old Abrams donated to Ukraine. HMAS Adelaide and Canberra are not aircraft carriers but helicopter landing ships for amphibious operations. They are NOT being replaced with Hunter class frigates. The latter are an entirely different type of warship and quite a separate capability. Nulka has been around for a while. It is a 'hovering' rocket that stands off away from a warship and lures anti-ship missiles away from the latter The Ghost Bat is not carried by an aircraft, but flies along with one (hence 'Loyal Wingman'). The numbers of aircraft mentioned 72 F-35s, but not any of the Super Hornets or Growlers. Virtually no coverage of the Army at all. I would give this clip/site a quite low level of credibility and attention to detail.
Australia should implement conscription. Far too many of our youth are on the wrong path and need discipline to teach them both self respect, respect for others, and respect for property. Especially amongst our indigenous population.
Dtn you know alot about Australia now. Australian open tennis is on in a few weeks ..check out the kids activities( ball park AO) one day when yous come to oz your son would love it.
Yeah absolutely awesome Australian military but needs to be bigger more personal more tanks more fighter jets and more fighting ships more more more and bring back conscription
That is definetly not all our tanks .. we have a large number of leopards too. And the abrahms isnt our "top of the line" .. its too big for a rail carriage here .. its too big to parachute out of a plane (unlike the leopard). Its too big for our littoral landing catamarans. Its here, we have some .. but we probably dont have much ability to take them overseas to tell the truth they are just too big :) And as an abrahms and a leopard can both one-shot each other .. whats the advantage in being the bigger target?
I agree with conscription for a year or two at least. Give young people skills and experience instead of sitting around getting into trouble. That’s my opinion anyway
They are, they started BRICS, or are you talking about the authoritarian western governments continuing to join hands to make a global government dictatorship? either way both are currently in play. Enjoy your remnants of democracy.
Not fair of us Aussies to rely on you yanks for everything, gotta pull our own weight. We have sone decent tech, ghost shark & bat, laser anti drone weapons...
Well mate I am Australian as well and I wanted to say that yes we depend on the yanks a lot but who gives a sh*t we are great allies my great grandfather was a a20 bomber navigator and was shot down over Japan and an American help so cheers
Please do an update on this video. Since this video, we have invested in additional M1A2Sep3 tanks, breachers and support vehicles, Apache Helicopters, Blackhawk Helicopters, Himars Systems, Redback Infantry Fighting Vehicles, Boxer Armoured Vehicles and K 9 Hunstmen Self Propelled Artillery. We are also doubling the size of the Navy and acquiring Nuclear powered submarines, although these will be years away. Tomahawk and NASAM also added to the arsenal. Just to name a few changes. Would be great to see an update. Good luck with the channel.
I never belived in conscription but I now think if your 18 it would be better for everyone to go as long as you have the choice if a war came to go or not. I think you are better off with some knowledge of how to prepare, defend yourself or help others if war came to your country. We are now taking those already in sevice from the 5 eyes country and after one year service I believe they can become an Australian citizen. Not sure how many the are taking.
That ship, never going to happen. We can't even build a freeway, or roll out decent internet. We are so f....d we can't even make washing machines. We can make you a hamburger but that'll come out of a Chinese owned Cafe.
I think its funny how many think we need more people in our defence forces, but I would not want to traverse Australia as an invader and risk being killed by something deadly and have no anti venom.
Yep. Good point. Maybe someone would like to name ONE country China has 'invaded' that wasn't theirs in the first place. American ignorance is destroying the world.
What rubbish you speak you talk as if we have a big militar.you talk as if we hold old the cards.lol.your dillusional did you even live here in Australia.😂😅😊
Australian defence forces are not much more than 50000 compared to China. Think about it. We also are a very different culture to America being we don't looking for a fight. No disrespect intended.
China is afraid we have Boomerangs and our
Military knows how to use them.
as an ex soldier - conscription is a big NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I do like the idea of the magistrate having the power to divert people from prison to the military- it wont work for every crook, but has the potential to channel good people, who need guidance, into a great place
With only 60,000 active military personnel in Australia, I doubt very much that China are worried about us. China is also the 2nd largest donor of foreign aid to Indonesia behind only Singapore.
Every single person I have spoken to in Australia has supported national conscription, not in the traditional way but in a modern supportive way that frees our military from smaller tasks so they can do the more important work
I think national service would be a good thing for young people, it could open up opportunities for people they didn't know existed.
Don’t think all Aussies are disarmed nether ! Our gun laws might be over tight but a lot of us have weapon licences! We got a big country and lots and lots of country boys that shoot !! 😂
Seppos think we have none but there's 3million more firearms in Australia than before the buyback we have great gunlaws not everyone should own one Americans wouldn't pass the mental criteria to own one here and I'm fine with that 😊
As an Aussie I support conscription in peace times to instill discipline and training in skills needed in war times. Its too late after war has started to sufficiently train new military personnel
i was born in australia and have been here for 40+ years and i assure you, NO ONE is worried about our military. so quit the crap
and with that attitude, you will be the type who bends the knee straight away when any issue arises and complains that the Military never does enuff.
True
Yeah China definitely isn't worried about Australia lol
I guess learning about our military is all too hard. You might find out those who are actually concerned and yes China is one of them. Might have something to do with us going to have more quiet nuclear submarines then what they do... hot tip, you don't spy on people like they do to us if your not concerned.
@@richardvr5448 were you dropped on your head?
As an Aussie, l support a system of a compulsory 18 months training in the ADF. Our military needs to be tripled in size to defend this country. More of everything.
The word being DEFENCE not OFFENCE for which they have been used by the craven Rothschild led USUK criminal alliance scumbags for at various places around the world !!!!
Yeah we should but it'll never get passed unless we are in deep shit.
I have to disagree, we need people who want to be there, not forced to be there.
@garg1961
Problem is they don't want people who wanta be there .
They want people who fit there guidelines PERIOD!
Unfortunately that means, their not serious about defence.
I'm not really sure , what their motivation & goals are , but it's not defence in depth of the Australian mainland.
@@jordanashcroft738then that's too late.
America couldn't identify the difference between New Zealand flag in this video & Australian flag like they couldn't at the Solamon Island in WW2 when America torpedoed 1 of our battle ships killing all 300 sailor's. 🇦🇺 While the Australian battle ship was giving cover fire for U.S soldiers 😡
Bring in conscription and watch all the 3rd world crap leave
Guess I don't need to ask WTH is wrong with you. That much is clear.
Fantastic idea!!
Fun fact the Australian government reserves the right to wartime conscription
Obsolete tanks in today's drone warfare.
I will say that people aged 18 to 25 who are out of work are not thinking. Army, Navy or Air Force pay is high and gives you skills to find a job later.
From an ex servicemen “ why join an army that sends you fight someone else’s fight and then force you to retreat and runaway after you achieve superiority you hand it back to the enemy !
Old men send young men to war and finally our young men are starting saying No More
@@The_Trinity_EffectTHIS!!! 👆 yes you said that perfectly, thank you for your service but thank you more for sharing your thoughts
The only thing it gave my mate is PTSD, He struggled with life after leaving until he gave up.
My daughter is looking into this. She believes it will open doors for her future.
I reminded her that it can open doors to ptsd, disability or worse. It can permanently close the door to her life.
I'm by no means trying to discourage her. I'm just advising her walk into this with open eyes and an open mind.
There's no reward without risk.
@@chair2335 so sad, I'm sorry to hear that
You're almost at 100,000 mate! Well done!
If you finish school and just want to sit on the dole, then welcome to conscription.
Do your 4 yrs get some form of skills behind you and earn a living
Neal, its truly appreciative that you have such a keen like for Australia and its military. A lot of Australians never have to worry because of the work they do, that is never seen.
You'll probably find that Australia is nowhere near the north Atlantic ocean. 😂
The oceans all join together.
@venderstrat yes, and they have different names. NATO is literally called the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. So as I said, AUSTRALIA IS NOWHERE NEAR THE NORTH ATLANTIC.
@@Alex.The.Lionnnnn It didn't stop us competing in Eurovision.
@@gretschcorvette73 this is true. 1. I'm still confused about that, and 2. I think Eurovision and NATO may be slightly different organisations with different entry requirements. 😂
It's not so much our weapons and vehicles that China is in awe of, it's our ability to adapt to any circumstance and succeed, any terrain and we adapt and overcome, this is why the UK, the US, Japan, Some Indonesia countries, Canada, and Iceland armies come to Australia to be taught our tactics in warfare, we train non stop, and our special forces are ranked among the highest in the world including being praised by ex special forces people around the world
Yeah nah, Australia has less than 70,000 active members. Ukraine is a better Military than Australia and they're getting smashed by Russia
yup, we train our enemies to beat us, smart but...
No mention of the Ghost Shark, though not sure if it was public at the time this was made.
We are only as powerful and strategic as much as the US needs us to be.
well put
A vassal state.
This was made about 2 years ago....ties between China and OZ are now mostly mended and same for Indonesia with their recent election. 🤗👍
We gave those tanks to Ukraine
Because we have m1a2 Abram's now
And more than before
I am an Australian if we were invaded by anyone our army would fall very quickly we have nothing we can't even defend 100 miles of coast line and we have much coast line. No we are not able to defend ourselves at all bro
what we do have is flat land and no enermy would be able to move without being spotted from miles and miles away
And how do you know? Bro
I immigrated here from America in 1983 and love it here. I have lived here longer than where I was born. This is my stompin' ground now. China has no fear of us at all. We do not have enough people or a big enough military. We would need help from our Allies to survive. The soldiers here are tough and well trained but never could we on our own go toe to toe with China
Hence why countries have allies
@1:51, The new Zealand Flag! well it's about time Australia was correctly recognised as the west island of NZ 🤣
lol, you do know NZ was part of new south wales origionally.
@@chair2335 well aware some delusional Britts though they could do that 🤣
thanks cuz, now I understand why roast lamb is so important to me and N.Z grows some of the best dacca in the world.
@@Laconic-ws4bz NZ weed is shit bro, need try some Cali shit before trolling that nonsense
I'm glad to be recognised as the West Island 🏝 😅
The main reason China would invade is to gain access to our minerals...eg iron ore. It is, as noted by others very difficult to move across Australia and occupy it. Distance, heat, lack of water, bad country and a host of other reasons hinders them. But they don't need the whole country, just the Pilbara. Occupying that would be easy. And the reasons making it hard to move into the rest of Australia make it equally hard for the ADF to advance into the Pilbara.
Would the US help under the terms of the ANZUS treaty...? Yes, I believe they would but what is needed is logistical solutions from them...things Australia does not have such as large numbers of transport planes/jets for transporting fuel, equipment, food, water, medical and so on. Of course, that requires AWACS planes, attack aircraft etc etc
Unfortunately, our government has DISARMED the vast majority of Australians, unlike Switzerland who has ARMED all its citizens so has never been invaded.
@@wyattfamily8997 The vast majority of Australians were never armed...
The only armed Swiss citizens are those who have completed the compulsorily military service ie males, for which they are paid as little as 3 Swiss francs per day. Many conscripts choose other services to fulfil their obligation to the state. And a lot are not military in nature. Switzerland is a mountainess country and it's bridges and passes are mined and fortified It has its many jets in hidden revetments all around the country and so on and so forth. It is these features which deterred Germany in the 2WW and invaders today...not the armed Militia
China doesn't have to invade, they just walked in casually and bought everything. 😂
Don't know about that title but at least China is ROFL at the Australian dollar.😅😂😅
Our army is so small it is laughable when compared on the world stage, no one is in fear of Australia, they could airdrop in tomorrow and dominate majority of the domestic public without any pushback since majority in AU are unarmed... We are a joke militarily and so is this video, thanks for the laugh.
good luck hitting australian soil b4 american navy teams in port hedland and stantioned around australia are deployed lol, i bet you didnt know but new zealands military is smaller then australias but new zealands sas team is better then any navy seal team, including seal team 6. lol our side of the world is put in high regards with the other countries we fight with :)
@Gworzoh this is modern warfare, if the war in Ukraine taught us anything pulling up a navy fleet would be suicide these days... The battlefield has changed. Our little SAS and NZ forces will get destroyed just like every other conflict NZ has found themselves in.
@@Gworzoh except it isn't 1935 anymore, if the current war has taught us anything it's that the Navy isn't as dominate a force in modern warfare as it used to be beside their subs, it would be selfdeletion to pull up with a navy fleet as a first response to a country you are invading in modern times, our countries haven't been at war with a rich nation who can almost equal our technology, the following war will be nothing like any we've experienced before... We are put in high regards for carrying out the dirty jobs the US won't go near as we saw in iraq etc, you'll need more then 500 elite SAS members to have an effect, the pool they are drawing from is much much larger then ours.. :)
@@spazzlo8356 i mean nz sas lead the seal team to osama bin laden and also assisted in sadam because the top of the top teams failed 🤣 and no this wasnt near any world war era, have you seen how advanced war is now half of the military vehicles would get taken out with a drone these days lol people can fight a war now days eithout physically being there lol but if you need close quarter combat nz and aus sas dominate that field
@@spazzlo8356 whats more of a laugh is how small our army is but how highly skilled and trained we are, im not sure you know much about the special forces teams we have, we have the best special forces teams in the world, uk sas laugh at ozzi sas but salute nz sas hahaha
We will never surrender
Australia is probably one of the best Guerrilla warfare fighters on the planet. The fact that we train continuously 6 months a year in rugged and unhospitable areas on the planet allows us to understand how we can fight in our country. When we have to go to war in any place other than Australia we have a natural understanding and situational awareness that belies our tiny size.
Your theory doesn't hold... What about the Japanese in WW2. Aussies had their arses handed to them and had to rely on the allies for help. We have fk all army to this day.
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@@wolvwwc60 years ago brain dead lil bro
Luckily our teens at many high schools still join the cadet corps, but with rising teenage crime I wonder if national service should be brought back now (at least it promotes self discipline, good health and self confidence)! We are mostly able to build our own vehicles and electronic equipment, we will be building more naval equipment asap! We constantly train around the world and the quality of our armed forces is excellent! Currently our army is spread worldwide as peacekeepers! 👍
NEVER BRING BACK NATIONAL SERVICE, only boomer types want that!
Cadets is just glorified Boy Scouts and the majority never come back to do proper Military Service, hardly anything for a Nation to rely on.
Not even close. China already owns us with great swathes of farmland, a number of airports and our northern most sea port, plus a lot of the southern pacific island nations have Chinese bases now. Our toddlers are learning woke ideology while theres are learning to reload a weapon. Ours are overly molly coddled while theres are learning martial arts on masse.
Anytime they feel like marching in, we're screwed.
It's fantastic that we can blame Woke for everything.
Especially when we can't even agree on what the definition of that is...
What an uneducated statement.
Bullshit mate. Idiot
Whan was the last time australia fought a war for australia?
All we have done is fight for europe
Hey don’t give us away….half of Australia is an underground nuclear facility aimed at global security breaches let’s just say…yes we have an Area 51 in Antartica it’s been there from before Roswell.
I think that if China wanted they could easily field 100 million soldiers and they have the manufacturing base to support a mobilization of that scale. If Australia conscripted every able bodied person who wasn't required for essential services we could field 1 million soldiers, but have zero manufacturing base to arm, equip or sustain any protracted conflict. Our manufacturing complex is by far the lowest in the developed world and lags behind South Africa and New Zealand. We have no domestic strategic fuel reserves. In 4 weeks we run out of petroleum. Our strategic reserves are being held in... Wait for it... Wait for it... The USA.. Yes we pay the Yanks to store fuel for us, half way around the other side of the world so that we can use it in an emergency.. We are just a big unsinkable aircraft carrier for the USA, that happens to be sitting on (By far) the larges mineral deposits in the world. No, we don't do anything with them. We just dig that shit up and send it to China, where they make useful things and then we buy it back at grossly inflated prices.. We don't even sell our own natural Gas domestically. We export it to Japan, and then buy it back at grossly inflated prices. Why bother invade Australia, China and others are already getting everything we have to offer practically free. Our politicians are among the cheapest on earth. Why invade when you can buy a cheap politician and get everything at rock bottom prices. . Hell we even subsidize foreign companies to dig up our raw materials. And we subsidize the cost of importing the value added products back to Australia.. So yes. the tax payer, gives money to foreign companies to dig up the wealth of the land, and then we pay the postage cost for other Chinese companies to send goods back to Australia. Its cheaper to send a parcel from China to a domestic address in Australia than it is to post it domestically. Why. Because we subsidize the costs. Australia has already been invaded. The take over of Canberra happened years ago. Should you join the Australian Defense force and defend England. Yes our soldiers first duty is to the Crown and not the Australian people. A recent High Court case against a whistleblower who reported war Crimes committed by the ADF where the defendant (A soldier) argued that he had a duty to act in the best interest of the Australian people and report the war crime. The High Court ruled that his oath which he took on becoming a soldier is to the Crown (King Charles) and not to the Australian people. He is now in Prison. God save our gracious king, long live our noble King!
Conscription/mandated service would be the best thing for australia! Leave school 6 years in service and qualified in a trade... Its why china russia and korea dont have useless people
Albo is a weak merkin. Dutton sucks to. We need our Trump.
Well said mate, Australian politicians are a joke.
Un-Manned jets means nobody lost in the sky during battle haha, But you have to imagine once those jets are fully stable and reliable all countries will be trying to buy the technology
the Japanese Mogami Frigates are on the horizon to replace the Hobart class. which should be given to the PHilippines
as an australian that leaves to join the army in 1 month i think we need conscription it would help with all these idoits in our country
ADF is currently seeking to bolster troops from us, canada and uk due to low recruitment and soldiers leaving the force at higher than normal numbers...Equipment and technology doesnt equate to much, when our morale is abysmal due to nanny state woke fueled agenda running rampant in australia. Who wants to fight for a country that has been let go of? Majority of australians cant even own a patch of land, who or what are we going to fight for? Rich politicians with multiple propety portfolios? or mass migration with non compatible cultures? No one wants to die or fight for Australia, patriotism is non existant...saying aussie aussie aussie, oi oi oi is akin to a racism cry it feels these days. What a joke
No good waiting for a war before conscription is bought in because then half trained soldiers are going to fight battles they aren't prepared for. Give each person of a certain age full-time training and they can be called up if needed
As an ex Aussie digger I also do not believe in conscription, however perhaps some form may help keep our youth from the wrong path in life. Not sure if this will go down well with some but do not give a F, also remember every country that has attacked us it did not go well for them! Good wishes to everyone and happy new year.
Hey Neil, we are not part of NATO
we basically are, do you think that if a european war broke out and the u.s went to war with russia and china that we would really be able to just sit it out? we wouldn’t be able to even if our government wanted to, there’s also anzus which would put even more pressure on us to join with the u.s at war.
Im from australia and i wish i was conscripted when i was younger now that the polis are starting war
Our military isn't that great.
Our emergency fuel surplus is 30 days of normal tempo.
We are an island.
We have 55,000 combat personnel.
Combat ships 26 by 2040s
Combat planes 84
Combat vehicles 1600 not all delivered
The main problem is the infrastructure. Railways and highways is the biggest issues.
The distances between bases and support from allied partners
No they’re not.. Australia’s military is pathetic these days
Peter Dutton wants to change everything and anything with defence budget and
Military /Navy's size.
I was told that the American coast guard could invade Australia and win. No idea if that's true or not 🤷♂️
While we have a housing crisis ,employed families living in tents the defence budget should be zero ,we are a peace keeping nation that's all ,waiting money on equipment that by the time it's built it outdated
Damn straight we're not playing. We defeated the Japanese in New Guinea during WW2, outnumbered 9 to 1 after the Americans abandoned us. Our SASR is second only to the British SAS.
Just pray that no one ever calls Australia's bluff. There's holes everywhere in equipment and training. Haven't improved much from the 'barely completed' Timor debacle. Where the best troops on the ground were 200 Gurkha's as outside international help.
As an aussie i can assure you this, we have a recruitment crisis and not enough equipment to go around.
China is not concerned about us, the only reason they don't attack us is because they feat american retaliation.
Soon that won't be a problem. China outnumbers us and has far more naval vessels and firepower all round from land, sea to air.
We have a small handfull of decent aircraft but we are far from war ready.
The brics group is not afraid of the west as the members are among the richest and heavily manned military on earth.
We also all owe china money.
We need to conscript if we ever hope to have a chance of being on the world stage for much longer.
I was a cadet but they still won't accept my application.
Our government is making us weak on purpose because china owns alot of land over here so now their "opinions" matter to our "leaders"
We aussies are not in a good place.
Second. Rights only exist because of the force application, fight the enemy that wants to remove our rights. Fight them because of duty. Conspription ain't about removal of rights, it's about our duty to protect them when others force theirs onto us again'st our will... better to fight a battle you hate then to throw everyones life away to placate your delicate sensibilities.
Your so called 'rights' are more threatened by politicians here than by the Chinese.
China worried about Australia seriously I doubt that we're a small nation small population large country a lots of space
Now we have 90 F35A 11 lightening fighter jets.
I think it would be good for the young people to do at least 1 year of military service when they turn 18 years old. I find most of the young these days don't have as much respect for authority, other people and property. A bit of discipline might correct this pattern of behaviour that has developed.
This whole "young people these days" has been going on for thousands of years. It's crap.
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and chatter in the place of exercise.” Socrates said this 2400 years ago. The children haven't changed, it's just easy to forget what it's like to be a child.
I chose to serve in the Army Reserve when I was 17 and then the ARA. I don't think it should be compulsory though.
The clip is a bit muddled and dated. The Defence budget is more like 2% of gdp. The tanks have been replaced with a newer model and most of the the old Abrams donated to Ukraine.
HMAS Adelaide and Canberra are not aircraft carriers but helicopter landing ships for amphibious operations. They are NOT being replaced with Hunter class frigates. The latter are an entirely different type of warship and quite a separate capability. Nulka has been around for a while. It is a 'hovering' rocket that stands off away from a warship and lures anti-ship missiles away from the latter
The Ghost Bat is not carried by an aircraft, but flies along with one (hence 'Loyal Wingman'). The numbers of aircraft mentioned 72 F-35s, but not any of the Super Hornets or Growlers. Virtually no coverage of the Army at all.
I would give this clip/site a quite low level of credibility and attention to detail.
Have you seen the Chinese military??
Australia's will have to have a draft in a war time economy. They dont like guns 😂
Australia should implement conscription. Far too many of our youth are on the wrong path and need discipline to teach them both self respect, respect for others, and respect for property. Especially amongst our indigenous population.
Dtn you know alot about Australia now. Australian open tennis is on in a few weeks ..check out the kids activities( ball park AO) one day when yous come to oz your son would love it.
Bigger the army the bigger the bucks spent on it.besides the war era has evolved
Yeah absolutely awesome Australian military but needs to be bigger more personal more tanks more fighter jets and more fighting ships more more more and bring back conscription
That is definetly not all our tanks .. we have a large number of leopards too. And the abrahms isnt our "top of the line" .. its too big for a rail carriage here .. its too big to parachute out of a plane (unlike the leopard). Its too big for our littoral landing catamarans. Its here, we have some .. but we probably dont have much ability to take them overseas to tell the truth they are just too big :) And as an abrahms and a leopard can both one-shot each other .. whats the advantage in being the bigger target?
Bro. None of us can be fucked doing anything here. No one is scared of us 😂
I agree with conscription for a year or two at least. Give young people skills and experience instead of sitting around getting into trouble. That’s my opinion anyway
Are military is woke too so who would want to fight for that (that is from someone that joined up when i was 17 and a half )
Lol. At 1:50 they got NZ flag 😉
china is a target rich environment.
All democracies need to join hands - now!
They are, they started BRICS, or are you talking about the authoritarian western governments continuing to join hands to make a global government dictatorship? either way both are currently in play. Enjoy your remnants of democracy.
Not fair of us Aussies to rely on you yanks for everything, gotta pull our own weight. We have sone decent tech, ghost shark & bat, laser anti drone weapons...
Well mate I am Australian as well and I wanted to say that yes we depend on the yanks a lot but who gives a sh*t we are great allies my great grandfather was a a20 bomber navigator and was shot down over Japan and an American help so cheers
hip hop, rap and other crap
Australian army …… ?? You mean the US army …!!!
This is old,we have A2 tanks nows
1 out of 10 is in the military
Please do an update on this video. Since this video, we have invested in additional M1A2Sep3 tanks, breachers and support vehicles, Apache Helicopters, Blackhawk Helicopters, Himars Systems, Redback Infantry Fighting Vehicles, Boxer Armoured Vehicles and K 9 Hunstmen Self Propelled Artillery. We are also doubling the size of the Navy and acquiring Nuclear powered submarines, although these will be years away. Tomahawk and NASAM also added to the arsenal. Just to name a few changes. Would be great to see an update. Good luck with the channel.
Budget forward estimates are 760 billion over the next 10 years, but that is only 2.3% GDP.
and sas trained wombats and a regiment of lesbians.
I new you were going to mention the nuclear powered submarine, what a fucking joke that is.
@@Laconic-ws4bznot just any Lesbians, Lesbian.Dwarves.
I never belived in conscription but I now think if your 18 it would be better for everyone to go as long as you have the choice if a war came to go or not. I think you are better off with some knowledge of how to prepare, defend yourself or help others if war came to your country. We are now taking those already in sevice from the 5 eyes country and after one year service I believe they can become an Australian citizen. Not sure how many the are taking.
That ship, never going to happen. We can't even build a freeway, or roll out decent internet. We are so f....d we can't even make washing machines.
We can make you a hamburger but that'll come out of a Chinese owned Cafe.
worse still mc donalds
Wtf is this.. out military is a joke.. we just gave ukraine 49 of our tanks to make it worse...
You could of saved this video for April 1st and got a few laughs...
Are we your next proxi?
also i think AUS for such a big country is probably weaker than the Taiwan “Province“ if I'm correct
Yeah but at least we know punctuation.
@ yeah true
Hahahah powerful ?? We wouldn’t know .
I think its funny how many think we need more people in our defence forces, but I would not want to traverse Australia as an invader and risk being killed by something deadly and have no anti venom.
Yep, nobody sensible would want to invade Australia and it would literally be impossible on most of the coast! 😰
Yep. Good point. Maybe someone would like to name ONE country China has 'invaded' that wasn't theirs in the first place. American ignorance is destroying the world.
SHHHHHH! Those are our secret weapons. DON’T TELL ANYONE!
@@jenniferharrison8915 and there's only a few places where an invasion would even be possible
China can easily force an inside Operation, they're already here lol.😂
Not even watching loud of crap
Crap.
What rubbish you speak you talk as if we have a big militar.you talk as if we hold old the cards.lol.your dillusional did you even live here in Australia.😂😅😊
BS Crap
Hahahah i reckon ive still got a bag of plastic army men that would be more formidable than the ADF
Australian defence forces are not much more than 50000 compared to China. Think about it. We also are a very different culture to America being we don't looking for a fight. No disrespect intended.
Getting your info from a propaganda video buddy. Living in auz, what military?