Speaking with Colleaguede, Gregory Coppley of Defense and Foreign Affairs about his native Australia

and the plans to re-awaken the Royal Australian Navy and setting sail to augment the defense of East Asia from the Chinese

predators. However, Gregory is not augmenting the US Navy, not taking charge of its own.

Here's Gregory to explain.

Gregory Coppley, defense and foreign affairs, more of this later tonight.

The best seakeeping Navy in the world.

I think that the US Navy even acknowledges that the seakeeping and operational capabilities

of the Royal Australian Navy are second to none, but they start generally from the wrong premise, and that is that Australia is not really taking the lead in its own survival.

And this new service competent growth looks at that.

The one area where which is interesting in this service competent fleet review is the strengthening of Australia's push for

unmanned or optionally manned warships which would go out in support of the fleet into blue water operations.

And Australia has been pioneering much of that, not just in surface vessels, but in underwater,

unmanned vehicles, large ones, which could actually take the police of a lot of the conventional or manned submarines and so on.

So these are actually really good and important and new capabilities.

What was disappointing in this planning to design and build these unmanned or optionally manned surface

competence in conjunction with the United States,

rather than taking the lead and saying this is our very independent requirement. It's a unique operating area, which is not really the same as

the US Navy's operations in the Central Pacific or the Atlantic. And they're allowing that

to color the ship designs for Australia.

So it's really another report by the Australian Department of Defense, which is showing Australia

in a subordinate role, not in the equal role which Aukus allows for Australia, UK, US, but once again in a subordinate

role to support the United States.

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