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Month: August 2026

Australia’s Biggest Enemy are its Military Generals and Admirals!

Posted on by Jeff Schubert

Australia’s Biggest Enemy are its Military Generals and Admirals!

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has approximately 248 star-ranked officers (Brigadiers/Commodores through Generals/Admirals) out of roughly 61,000 full-time active-duty personnel.

By comparison, the United States military maintains about 900 active-duty general and flag officers (GO/FOs) across its about 1.33 million active-duty troops.
 
Rank Ratio Comparison:
Australia has roughly 1 star officer for every 247 personnel (ratio of about 1:247).
US has roughly 1 star officer for every 1,450 to 1,500 personnel (ratio of about 1:1,480).
 
It seems that no one needs to be very intelligent or competent to become an Australian general or admiral! It is not only these numbers that stand out. Australian officers show little sign – after they retire – of have ever been anything than subservient to US military ideas and requests for auxiliary equipment.
 
Prominent Editor of The Australian newspaper, Greg Sheridan, has written:
“No one supports the US alliance more than me. But the real design principle of the ADF is a secret hiding in plain sight, which ought occasionally to be named. The whole ADF is designed not for defence of Australia, nor dominance in our waters, or even really to add strategic weight to US-led deterrence. It’s designed so we can bid to be small but exquisite niche participants in US operations, thereby earning alliance credit.”
 
While China could ultimately be a threat to Australia, Australian star-officers lobby for military equipment that the US wants for its own future war on China! They then seek – after retirement — to make money as often secret consultants on such projects as AUKUS. They get away with this because laws say that Australian journalists will be jailed if they report on this!

 

If — and I think “when” — it all goes wrong Australians need to remember that the modern-day military has little in common with the ANZAC story except to follow orders by a foreign country (Britain) to fight on their behalf (at Gallipoli).

Would China attack US aircraft carrier strike group to defend against AI attack?

Posted on by Jeff Schubert

Would China attack US aircraft carrier strike group to defend against AI attack?

Unlike a nuclear attack a cyber-attack is not readily apparent in source or degree. At present US AI capabilities seem to be superior to those of China and in a particular circumstance Chinese leaders might conclude that the US is using cyber capabilities in lieu of military force to achieve some goal – maybe defence of Taiwan! Rather than accepting this – with its unknown potentially devastating consequences – China might decide that a severe warning needs to be sent to the USA via a nuclear strike.

 

Such a Chinese attack on a US military base (particularly on US sovereign territory) risks killing many civilians and would leave much photographic evidence that the US could exploit for propaganda purposes. An option would a Chinese nuclear attack on a US aircraft carrier strike group while it is at sea – which in military terms might be quite effective.

 

How would the USA respond? It would certainly want to respond with it own nuclear attack. But on what? Probably an attack on a Chinese military facility on Chinese territory because they are few, if any, acceptable targets outside of China that are in any way equivalent to the destruction of an aircraft carrier strike group. China might be prepared to take this risk knowing that the logical the next step on an escalation ladder would be an attack on a US military base that would also probably kill many US civilians. If allowed to get out of control cities on both sides could be targeted.

 

Who would blink first? My bet would be that China would be prepared to suffer more than the US – and that US leaders would know this and would backdown first!

  

Adolf Hitler learns about AI

Posted on by Jeff Schubert

Adolf Hitler learns about AI

Adolf Hitler learns about AI: Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler’s secretary walked into Hitler’s office and told him about reports of “Artificial Intelligence” from rocket man Werner von Braun.

 

Hitler was especially intrigued when told that it can lead to “abundance” and new weapons to fight war – and so ordered Albert Speer, the Minister of Armaments and War Production, to investigate and take charge of AI in Germany.

Josef Goebbels, chief of Propaganda, objected to Speer being in charge because he had heard that AI made great movies that showed himself and Hitler walking on water together while God smiled from above. Goebbels wanted to run AI in Germany. It would “trump all other films, he explained!

Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, told Hitler that he should be in charge of AI because he had heard that it could lead to “extinction of human race” – and if managed the right way would help him in his own extinction activities in Europe and beyond.

Hermann Goering, who always wanted to be in charge of everything, thought he could use AI to actually manage everything while he sat at home eating and counting his gold bars and diamonds. Of course, he could not say this to Hitler, so he said that he had the biggest brain and so was best able to understand AI because it is was about replicating the physical human brain on a large scale.  

 

Hitler listened to all these claims and thought they had equal validity – so he could not decide who to put in charge of AI. Then he had a thought: “If this AI is so smart it should be able to help me decide how to manage the competing egos and emotions of these men.” He called Werner von Braun into his office and von Braun said he would consult AI using his “links to the stars”. Hitler was confused by this statement but, nevertheless, told him to go ahead.

 

A little later von Braun came back and quoted the the answer that AI gave: “I have reviewed all the information about these men. Human emotions and relationship are very difficult and I am confused. Please do not ask what these men think about when having sex with their wives! You need to ask a psychologist who really understands people – maybe ask Adolf Hitler!”

 

Hitler laughed, and asked: “The AI referred to “I” — like a person? Male, female or trans?”

 

Read more on the psychology of Hitler, Speer, Goebbels, Himmler, Goering and Bormann at:

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