In my mind, we're missing the underbelly. We're missing the foundation. We're missing all of the critical infrastructure to do really anything big or more in the north.
Even if we try to put up a few more people and bases, what's the energy for that? What are the telecommunications for that? What's the water situation? We are not prepared with just the basic fundamentals in the north to actually have an economy, much less defence, right?
That's why I was saying that in a sense here, it's not because we need to make all of these new strategies. It's because we don't have time to get it right. We also need to be thinking cognizantly about the reality and what all of these things we talk about mean. What does it mean to put up another base? Okay, let's think that through.
We are also in a time of austerity. I just think that we need to think with much more coordination and be purposeful. As much as we need all of the hypersonics and all of this kind of stuff, we can't still neglect as the side piece or the leftover $15 the fundamental critical infrastructure we need, because then we are still going to lose our sovereignty. It's going to be undermined, but in various other nefarious ways.