#AusIADSStaffRide examining the reinforced fallback position at the #Bakri Crossroads. Japanese #tank attack destroyed by determined #AustralianArmy #defence. No longer any sign here. @DVACommissioner @ADFinMalaysia #forgottenbattles #tacticallessons @AustralianArmy @AARCAusArmy

@HistoryBowsh Probably the fall of Malaya in 1941!

@IKAHANid @DefenceAust And the adjacent Dutch war grave - impressive and tragic.

@FMcL2020 @AustralianArmy @ChesterfieldO5 @DGFLW_AusArmy Why not have both? Paraphrasing the late Senator General Molan ‘we are a rich country and we can afford anything we decide we need’

@pinstripedline @maz_jovanovich

@robert_lyman Also works in jungle!

@Dr_M_Davis If career miners can barely identify an ore body near Kalgoorlie, and mining it is a very marginal profit calculation, why are we being told constantly about the [‘known’] riches just over there on that asteroid / moon / planet to fund somebody’s space project?!

@MikeHistorian And Corinth?

@sommecourt Ta’ Braxia also has some old and interesting military and maritime graves: the 1836 grave of an officer of the USS Potomac killed off Liberia, and that of a midshipman who fell from the rigging in 1861.

@robert_lyman Don’t worry, Donald mandates 5% expenditure!

@Chieftain_armor Thank god those who have to use them don’t need to understand them!

I think ‘good planning, poor preparation’ is a good summary. For example, Op MATADOR was a great plan that totally failed in execution - and may well have failed with the Indian troops trained as they were - prior to the revolution in that army prompted by such a shocking defeat.

@BlairGrub Ahhh, textbook of the legendary ‘cadre course’ of the @UNSWCanberra history department in the 90s! @prior_robin

Pretty much the same in Australia. I know. I’ve been both. If you think regular recruitment and retention (and incentives) are bad, just wait until you see the reserves! As an example, in WA (Australia’s largest state with ~ 2M people) there are only around 1000 reservists… @austdef

@PBuff90 @robert_lyman @WW2TV @YouTube This presentation really wasn’t about the Ambush at Gemas - more the entire campaign!

@KarlJames_1945 @destinationnsw Good old Jeff!

RT @Phillip72850753: No One Returns Alive From New Guinea with Phillip Bradley via @YouTube

@saltymarine80 @Jason_R_Burt 🇦🇺