National Service & Military Defence of New Zealand
National Service and the military defence of New Zealand will become important because, as the global climate worsens over the coming decades, New Zealand will be seen increasingly as a green oasis in a hot and dry planet. Military defence and National Service will be essential as hundreds of millions of unfortunate people around the world are displaced from their traditional homelands by flooding and drought; the pressures on attractive countries like ours will become severe.
Fortress New Zealand argues that this pressure will eventually take the form of aggressive migration and even, in time, military invasion from countries with vast populations and no way to feed them all. While this may seem like a remote possibility at this point, it will take many years to build up well-trained armed forces – the New Zealand Army, Navy and Air Force - and civil defence networks through the introduction of National Service; so the process must begin immediately.
New Zealand must become a fortress in the sense that it may have to sustain itself through its own food production and industry. New Zealand must also consider National Service to provide military defence, as it may have to survive external military aggression. Fortress New Zealand is a concept that is literal in the military sense, as well as in an economic and social context.