#defencebudget — Public Fediverse posts
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@Bot4Sale
I understand your point of view.Mine stems from the need to consider the staff levels (civilian) of the Departments (Defence and Procurement) and the projects they have to handle. Based on my experience, it takes approximately one FTE (full-time equivalent) to manage up to $5M for a *simple* procurement project, so it’s no surprise contractors are hired to manage things in a *complex* projects. More than half of the life of a project manager (PM) is spent on *reporting*. You’d be surprised how few PMs are civil service staff. I don’t think things have changed since my days, perhaps PMs these days are even worse off. And I’m not including the PMs’ support tail; legal, ITC, military staff and technical experts. It’s a very complex machinery of government.
As for the strategic deterrence value of the equipment and platforms that are acquired by the ADF, that, quite frankly, is above our pay grades. #AUKUS just happens to be everyone’s favourity patsy because of the eye-watering costs (spread over a decade I might add — though it will provide on-going jobs in shipbuilding thus growing our economy) and the over the top secrecy surrounding the projects (Tiers One and Two).
/thinking_it’s_about_enough_on_AUKUS_for_the_week/
Disclosure: I’m not necessarily a fan of AUKUS (the agreement) either, though I understand the strategic need for the subsurface warfare void to be filled. -
@Bot4Sale
Ahh yes, it’s expensive. The issue is with the #Oligarchy and the rentiers, the ones making a pile of dosh manufacturing arms which should be nationalized given its importance. #Deterrence is not an option.The fact that we have to arm and stand up a permanent mililtary force is not the issue here — My grandparents, my parents, uncles and aunts sufferred hell on earth during two world wars because of a weak military and political appeasement and I don’t want to live through that, nor do I wish my kids to do so. Hence we have to do what we can do build enough deterrence to dissuade potential aggressors, and if not, at least to make them think twice before resorrting to military actions (because we live in a world where might is right unfortunately).
It’s easy enough to criticise militarization and its cost to society when one has never experienced the morbidity of aggresive occupation or the deprivation of social democratic liberties and basic human rights.
#MilitaryIndustrialComplex #Defence #Deterrence #War #WordlWars #RentierClass #TechBros #TheRIch #DefenceBudget #AusPol
Note how history shows us very few rich suffer much, if at all, during wars.
/I think I’ve said enough on this subject/
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@eddyjokovich
Let’s face it, we know next to nothing about #AUKUS Tier One, and the little we know we garner from US and UK sources where the *paranoia* surrounding secret and top secret briefings isn’t as ingrained as it is at home — there are historical precedents behind this behaviour which can be teased out of the history of the UKUSA agreement). Hence much of what is written domestically in the press and open to the public about AUKUS is little better than hypothetical commentary (neither confirmed nor denied by govt or #RichardMarlesMP). Some commentary is a little better in that the guesses postulated therein have a grain of *probabilty* based on *educated guesses*. But they are few and sparse in details. That is the state of play where AUKUS is concerned and very unlikey to change in the future.Moreover, where more knowledgeable sources are commenting, they do so with an agenda, but their comments reflects their limited knowledge beyond broad issues, or are unable to be more specific due to the Official Secrets Act. Either way, what is available to the public, journalist and politically active commentators is next to nothing in the face of the most complex Defence procurement in the history of the ADF.
Dear Eddy, I’ve written the above to keep my comment short by not addressing all of your talking points that I take issue with. Tbf, my 23 years in Defence does not make me an expert, but it ought to count for something in the public arena. Given my views above, I sympathise with commentators and journalists who feel obliged, and rightly so, to keep the AUKUS issue alive hoping for transparency and accountability by maintaining the *heat* in this public debate. It’s a healthy thing.
#AusPol #SSN #USprePositioning #HMASSterling #WA #PineGap #TindleRAAFBase #USMarineRotationsDarwin #UK #UKUSA #AustralianSovereignty #SubmarineShipyards #DefenceBudget #DefenceProcurement #ADF #AdelaideShipyards #SASubmarineCorporation #ASC #Barrow_in_Furness #HIIshipyards #GEElectricBoats
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#Army #Navy #RoyalAirForce #UK #RAF #Military #SkyNews #News #Britain #UnitedKingdom #Defence #DefenceBudget #Budget #ArmedForces #Spending #MichaelClarke This is genuinely moving. Michael Clarke really knows his stuff regarding the armed forces, and when he speaks as sincerely as this, the powers that be should definitely listen.
Michael Clarke gets emotional over frontline soldiers' working conditions
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Daily Times - Latest Pakistan News, World, Business, Sports, Lifestyle [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·National assembly approves Rs4.3 trillion federal grants package
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#USMilitarySpending #DefenceBudget
Good reporting here from The Guardian. Imagine what schools, healthcare, infrastructure could do with money like defence contractors are getting?
"High Pentagon budgets are often justified because the funds are ‘for the troops’,” said William D Hartung, senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and an author of the report. “But as this paper shows, the majority of the department’s budget goes to corporations, money that has as much to do with special interest lobbying as it does with any rational defense planning. Much of this funding has been wasted on dysfunctional or overpriced weapons systems and extravagant compensation packages.”
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#DeclassifiedUK | The mainstream media are beating the drums of war
"Using the Nexis database to search for coverage of increased defence spending (interestingly, there are significantly more stories on “defence spending” than on “military spending”), we found a 2700% rise in stories across the UK media from 17 February 2020 to 17 February 2025:"
https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-mainstream-media-are-beating-the-drums-of-war/
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“Prepare for war”. This is Kaja Kallas, EU foreign policy chief. She’s Estonian 🇪🇪 so the tension has always been there, but this ain’t a bland statement. We should take her seriously.
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EIB ready to ‘stretch’ lending criteria as it prepares for EU Council’s call to arms https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/eib-ready-to-stretch-lending-criteria-as-it-prepares-for-eu-councils-call-to-arms/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #defencebudget #Defenceminister #EBRD #Ecofin #EIB
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EIB ready to ‘stretch’ lending criteria as it prepares for EU Council’s call to arms https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/eib-ready-to-stretch-lending-criteria-as-it-prepares-for-eu-councils-call-to-arms/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #defencebudget #Defenceminister #EBRD #Ecofin #EIB