The author of that article seems never to have read Neville Shute's book "On the Beach," which is especially bad coming from an Australian. The bad news will eventually reach into your bunker, no matter how deep you dig it.

Dien Bien Phu was a failure of French generalship, caused by their underestimation of the enemy. Methinks the author of this piece makes a similar underestimation of the reach and capabilities of today's "forces of evil" out beyond the Great Barrier Reef. In fact I think that to sit back in "Festung" Australia is to make the same mistake the French made by digging in at the bottom of Giap's "rice bowl" and giving over the initiative to the Viet Minh.