Yes I agree it is good that the RNZN has a stategic plan that addresses some personnel issues but as with the other services it is trying to retain those highly trained personnel that is the problem as they tend to be older with families that have to live in Auckland which at a certain point because a choice between money or lifestyle.
Most SRs are now reside out of Auckland and are posted unaccompanied. It will be interesting to see how they are going to deal with it in the future with less Navy housing available and Auckland house prices unaffordable
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Where in a post Freudian era were the ego is not as centric as pervious eras. Woman in uniform, drinking patterns. We'll have the universal ed. post Freudian in terms of lust and ego gratification. If you remove these from the equation you have a new set of perimeters driving new recruits. We have these blooming values spreading around NZDF where there values are displayed on the net. It's not socialism because that failed.
I see it in the raw character of new recruits as there graduation ceremonies and military life in general hit YouTube and Facebook. Recruits communicate with past and present personal to share experiences, jokes via social media. This is different from the way Brass have tried to make changes in the past. It's reducing the need for work and free time and blurring the edges between between wages. Our infrastructure could not possibly support these new values so there will be consequences.
The coming wave of automation will put more pressure on a larger work force not just to subsist but provide a decent life style for all personal. It's obvious defence planers are reducing the need for work.
Work in a sense that we understand of overcoming gravity and that favoured a certain style of recruit. After the row boat age those that could conquer gravity in the sail age by hauling aloft sails or could leverage manpower and huge assembly line techniques in the industrial revolution. Or those that could master gravity in terms of compressing information on a microprocessor at terra bytes per chip et. There is a point of diminishing returns were you have automation and less crew to run them.
Information, media, treasury is corroding the ability for defence to plan properly. Is it a need to create target rich environments. Maybe. Information is hitting defence planers at an unbelievable pace. Planers default mechanisms is to form monopolies, amalgamate, efficiencies. Building models based on the capture and privatisation of information, such constructions are fragile at odds with sharing information freely. This is where JATF HQ removes the ego centric thinking to a certain kind of group ethical ecstatic that brings recruits together. I don't believe the 3 services will be separate for ever. The point at which they amalgamate is unknown to me but they won't survive the next turn, in energy source. Diesel to miniature fusion reactors, that kind of thing.
Consider when you remove the need for wages you remove the need for status. Status still has value in currency so it's not socialism. But once you have no need for wages you do things for status. I'm attempting to describe a single service defence force loosely based on the series Star Trek. (Yes I am a Trekkie)
The Star Trek revolution may be closer than we think. Star Trek The Next Generation happens in a time when everything has essentially worked out. When you examine Star Treks economic system where money no longer exist and anything can be made essentially for free. Objects are no longer status symbols. Success would be measured in achievements, not in money. You would need to build up your reputation, you would need to be a fantastic person, you would need to be Captain. People will work hard to achieve those goals even though they don't need a pay check to live. This is my vision of what a single service would look like. What drives this future?
What's the single economic point that drives this future. The cost of energy going to zero which is what we are rapidly approaching. Because the cost of photoelectric cells are approaching zero. Which means the cost of harvesting energy from the sun is approaching zero. Which leads me to believe what I am describing is accurate. A world in which energy drives motion and society at which the cost is zero. We're still chest deep in the old systems. Remember I said it's about overcoming gravity. It's happening.
Get rid of the ego you won't have three services trying to assign multiple threats into one of three military services. With free energy the idea of motion and interactions will be free and the idea of sexual conquest will disappear. It doesn't change the fact Graham Hart touches himself even though he's got a billion dollars. Maybe he'll give a billion dollars away in philanthropy to be a good human being. That's the kind of stuff we are moving away from to a frictionless economy of free energy.
If JATF is allowed to continue over the next 200 years the gains for New Zealand may be immeasurable, whether the gains are distributed between 1 or 3 services is an open question. Star Trek offers a way of imagining life and work if they were.
I can not properly articulate via DT my desire for JATF to succeed. I look upon Navy and NZDF as I look upon the All Blacks.
