ADF chiefs with thin skins, too much time and money and very, very bad advice
Friday, 05 August 2016
Earlier this year The Australian published a series of articles and editorials based on the proposition that the Defence Force should not be a place for experiments in social engineering.
Regular readers will know of our view on the matter of Diversity Warriors hijacking the ADF to the detriment of its good name and capability.
The embodiment of the worst of the phenomenon is in the person of David Morrison and the worst of the culture and corruption of good order and military discipline in the Admirals of the Fleet and their favouritism and conscious encouragement of the insubordination and divided loyalties of the celebrity Mulsim Mona Shindy.
Defence would do well to examine the reaction to Morrison's trite musings about diversity from the broader populace - rather than the reactions and undue influence within the ADF of its PR and HR genii.
Hint to the ADF - our warrior class is unlikely to tweet hashtags in defence against attack.
In April the influential advisors to Binnie and the Boys (that's how the chief of the defence force refers to himself in the emails below) decided that they would launch a decisive full frontal attack on News Limited and The Australian. Amongst the munitions expended against the newspaper and its publisher was a pointer to News Limited's diversity strategy (a tactical manoeuvre described by the chief of Army as "classic").
Binnie and the Boys, drop the direct access from your PR people. Stick to running defence operations and give the lefty PR game away - the email chains below (53 pages released, many more redacted) reveal a decidedly unhealthy siege mentality and superiority complex amongst you, overly influenced by the minority views of the Twitterati.
In short, you sound like dickheads.
Here are my articles on the matter.