All small nations are vulnerable to sudden military intervention by Superpowers, including Australia.

Leadership, command and communications are the likely first casualties

Visible military assets are eliminated before the defenders know a war has started. For Australia this may includes warships and other exposed assets

Military units that survive the initial assault must be empowered to engage the invader even if the leadership is eliminated.

(We now know that Maduro and his body guards were sacrificed by the regime so that the US could get the oil while the regime stays in power.)

To survive modern warfare military assets need to be hidden and distributed.

Australia is poorly prepared for modern conflict and would loose its leadership and most ADF assets in the first hour of a war.

Our Solutions

• Discontinue hopelessly vulnerable surface warships
• Stop trying to build huge nuclear submarines in Australia that will be destroyed prior to launch
• Distribute and hide military assets
• Deploy a large number of decoy assets to confuse aggressor states
• Acquire very large numbers of truck-mounted anti-ship and anti-air missiles. These must be hidden in shipping containers or similar
• Encourage electrification and reduce reliance on imported fuels.

For more see: Fortress Australia.

Venezuela: More Drugs & Less Oil?

The operation to seize Maduro was an outstanding success for the US armed forces. This replicates the similar initial success in Iraq and Afghanistan.

However, it is one thing to seize the leader and quite another to control the country and extract oil from below it. Relatively small groups of Chavistas with small arms should be able to blow up oil infrastructure faster that the US can rebuild it. The Chavistas can finance their operations by assisting drug trafficking.

With no oil flowing the Venezuelan occupation will become another drain on US funds just like Afghanistan, Iraq & Vietnam. With no other income, Venezuelans will turn to drug production and trafficking out of desperation.

Who’s next?

Trump may now move on Greenland as that would be a military pushover and it is in Trump’s “hemisphere”.

The 57,000 existing inhabitants could easily be herded into the southern municipality of Kujalleq.

Cuba could be another target but there is nothing there Trump wants.

China & Russia are likely to step up their attacks on Taiwan, Ukraine & Eastern Europe and elsewhere.