Japanese plans for a seaborne invasion of Port Moresby were thwarted by Australian and American naval forces in the battle of the Coral Sea (4 – 8 May 1942) and the battle of Midway (4 – 6 June 1942). This left them with the only option of a land assault over the Owen Stanley Ranges via the Kokoda Trail. (more…)
Posts Tagged International Affairs
Proposal for 3rd November to be officially proclaimed as ‘Kokoda Day’
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009President Barack Obama – the great black hope for America!
Thursday, November 6th, 2008I was privileged to observe an important chapter in American history in 1978 when Major-General Fred Sheffey was appointed to Command the United States Army Base at Fort Lee in Virginia. The base was named after General Robert E. Lee; the Civil War General who led the Confederate army against President Lincoln’s bid to abolish slavery. (more…)
Republician chatter back on the agenda!
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Our chattering classes will be delighted at the strategic direction for social change under the Rudd Labor government. The first phase of their agenda is to send us on a guilt trip for ‘invading’ the country in 1770. This will be followed by a surreptitious campaign to change our Australian flag as they move towards their ultimate objective of establishing an Australian republic. (more…)
Should Australia be in Afghanistan?
Friday, April 13th, 2007Australia has two rather stark choices in the war against terrorism. We can continue to support America, the only nation with the will and the resources to fight global terrorism, or we can go it alone and hope the fanatical Islamic Jihadists will leave us alone. (more…)
David Hicks – Hero or Traitor?
Friday, March 16th, 2007Australian soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan are entitled to feel a sense of betrayal over the hero worship being afforded to terror suspect, David Hicks. (more…)
Papua New Guinea – A difficult place to help
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007Speech to the United Services Institute by Charlie Lynn on 27 February 2007
The threatened collapse of nation states in our Pacific neighbourhood and the scourge of terrorism have awakened Australia to the need for a more proactive leadership role in the South Pacific region.
Since World War 11 Australia has punched well above its weight on the international stage. European Union and ASEAN trading blocks and powerful domestic lobby groups in the United States have not precluded us from successfully penetrating overseas markets. We took on the world to win the 2000 Olympic Games for Sydney and we have been America’s most loyal ally in the international struggle against communism, socialism and the more recent war against terrorism. Our early and generous response to the Asian tsunami gained (more…)
Iraq and Kokoda: similar enemy – different strategy
Friday, February 23rd, 2007Defence Minister Brendon Nelson is spot on with his analogy between the war in Iraq and the battle for Kokoda.
In 1942 our diggers, many of them untrained militia soldiers, faced a fanatical enemy that had not been defeated since the bombing of Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941. Japanese society was led by militarists who indoctrinated their soldiers in the warrior code of bushido. They believed in the divinity of their Emperor and in their divine mission to establish a co-prosperity sphere in South-East Asia and the Pacific. (more…)
