This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. In the late 18th century, 11 ships showed up in

Botany Bay, Australia. They were the first fleet, so-called, on board were nearly 2,000

prisoners emptied out of Newgate to found a new world, and please don't come back to Great Britain ever.

They didn't. They didn't settle at Botany Bay. The soil was poor, but they did settle in what is now Sydney, in Sydney Harbor.

And more than two centuries later, Australia, a member of Five Eyes, certainly contributed to the sacrifice and the

tragedy of the First and Second War, stand up when it comes to facing down enemies during the

first Cold War. But I welcome Grant Neuschum, United States Marine Corps, Colonel retired, author of When China Attacks.

Grant, a very good evening to you.

Your article points to the fact that Australia has gone through some changes since they jumped out of the trenches in the first war and fought through the jungles in the second war.

How would you characterize Australia's opinion

these days of the adversaries? That would be Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, and Pyongyang. Good evening to you.

Well, good evening, John. If you're my age, you have a certain impression of Australia,

and it really derives from World War II when they were the first people

to stop the Imperial Japanese Army on the Kokoda track in New Guinea, when nobody thought

the Japanese could be defeated. These were tough customers. And then it was also to reinforce

by the Crocodile Dundee movies as well, but it's a different Australia these days. And then it

was 50 years ago, 30 years ago, even I would suggest.

And it really does not have the military power,

really the coherent sense of the national defense,

that it needs to defend itself.

And it seems in some respects to do the bare minimum

just to keep the Americans on side underwriting their deterrence.

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