cdxbow
Well-Known Member
Space is another area. You have Rocket labs, a very successful small satellite launch provider. Being able to launch small military satellites at short notice would be very useful capability. I don't now what else space related you have in NZ but that capability alone is worth a lot.It looks like we might be looking at joining AUKUS. Apparently, the door is open.
Stuff
www.stuff.co.nz
It would be interesting to see where we might contribute, Cyber and Quantum Computing are areas that i agree we should be investing in. I would be interested in what other areas people see an opportunity in.
Does anyone have a date for the defense assessment to be released?
The pressure and need for decisions to be made seems to be increasing significantly for our leaders, along with an increase in investment.
There is an admirer in Australia for NZ defense policies, so perhaps you should not feel so bad about the decrepit state of NZDF. Someone thinks it's the gold standard. The Greens senator, Jordon Steele-John pointed to New Zealand’s lightly armed defence force as the “gold standard” Australia should aspire to, saying the nation needed a “readily deployable and highly mobile force that is commensurate with our size and location”. Bill Shorten blasts Greens’ call for national security cuts, rules out power-sharing deal (smh.com.au)
We have seen with Covid19 how ignorance, stupidity and magical thinking becomes very dangerous (anti-vax, C19 denial, refusal to take precautions, snake oil cures etc) when confronted with a challenge in the real world. Jordon Steele-John may be the same, he is living in a fantasy land that seems to utterly ignore the last decade. Fortunately in Oz this is an extreme position, one which I think the Greens will have to modify to gain more votes.