Australia's Commitment to a Nuclear Exchange

Australia's military leadership would be petrified of a political instruction that we must find forces to send to go into combat with the Yanks. In such a nuclear exchange, as everyone concedes, there would be targets in Northern Australia, which we are militarising and allowing the Americans to militarise. A former Australian general now deceased, I'm told, express the view privately, that we wouldn't last three minutes. This is not a war in the Middle East. America, as Malcolm Fraser pointed out, has got a capacity to lose wars. Think of Iraq, think of Afghanistan, Vietnam,. Vietnam, which is not distant history. And in those wars, they lost to peasant militia, unified