Some people say: The most belligerent country in the world is the United States, but there is another country, and the war they have participated in can be called the history of modern war, that is, the little brother of the United States, Australia.
As a small federal country, Australia has participated in more than 30 battles in its 250-year history, and almost all major battles in modern times have their presence, and they are known as the most loyal eagle dogs.
Australia
So what exactly is Australia fighting for? Why are they called the most loyal eagle dogs?
Establishment of Australia
Some wars are for the sake of defending the homeland, some are for invading the land, and some are for the purpose of plundering resources, so what is the purpose of the wars that Australia has been constantly participating in?
Located between the South Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, surrounded by the sea, Australia is the only country in the world with a territory covering the entire continent, also known as "Australia" for short. As a result, Australia has no quarrels with the territories and territorial waters of its neighbours at all.
So is Australia trying to plunder resources? Obviously not either, because Australia is alone on a continent and is rich in resources, it doesn't need to plunder resources at all. Moreover, in the battles in which Australia participated, it was repeatedly defeated and suffered heavy losses, and it was not qualified to plunder resources at all.
As for their reasons for fighting for the sake of defending their homeland and for peace and justice, it is even more unrealistic. Since the founding of Australia, it has only suffered one foreign invasion, that is, during World War II, Japan bombed the Australian mainland.
Then there is only one reason left, and that is the Australian nation's fanatical love of war, and this has to start from the origin of the Australian state.
In its earliest days, Australia was like a paradise, where a small number of humans lived and was rich in flora and fauna, but this did not last long.
In 1770, there was a navigator in England, Captain Cook, who discovered the coast of Australia, named it "New South Wales", and declared it to belong to Britain.
Subsequently, the powerful British occupied it, but the British did not pay attention to it, because they were busy invading other countries everywhere.
As a result, Australia became a place of Exile in The United Kingdom.
It was not until 1788, when Captain Philip arrived with a fleet of 6 ships, that things changed.
They took 736 prisoners and lived in Port Jackson, Australia, and they saw that Australia was beautiful and rich in products, so they had the idea of taking the mountains as king, and soon after, they established the first British colony in Australia.
The establishment of the British colony, coupled with the beautiful scenery here, no war, countless freedom-loving people ran to Australia, so that australia's population slowly increased.
In the 1850s, many people discovered gold in Australia, and the news can be said to have alarmed countless people around the world.
Countless gold diggers from Europe, the Americas and China traveled to Australia, raising the population of unattended Australia from 400,000 to 1.1 million.
Australian gold digger
With the discovery of these ores, the local rulers rushed to mine, allowing Australia to begin rapid development.
In 1900, Australia had been completely divided into six colonies, and in order to become more powerful, after deliberation, they decided to form a commonwealth state, so Australia was established, and the six colonies were smoothly turned into six states.
Of course, the establishment of Australia was approved by britain, after all, it was a country established by relying on British colonies, and many australian officials at that time were British, so Britain was also very friendly to them, treating them as their vassals.
Belligerent Australia
Australia was founded, but most of their people were gold diggers of various countries, wanderers yearning for freedom and part of the original prisoners. And these people and the original British invaders who managed them all had one thing in common. That is, they don't want to be bound by rules and have strong belligerent genes.
Thus, during the powerful British Conquest of the Northern War, the Australian state immediately requested The British to join the war.
In fact, before Australia was founded, these original British people followed the British many times.
Australian soldiers
Before the First World War, Australia sent hundreds of troops to follow The British in the famous Sudan war, but because the Australian army was too small to qualify for frontal battlefields, they followed the British for other work.
At the time of the First World War, the Australian state had been established and its number had increased considerably, so they sent troops and officially joined the British army as a British colony.
During the British conquest of Egypt, Australia and New Zealand, at British instructions, formed a combined Anzac army to guard the Suez Canal and stop the Ottoman Turks who were about to come ashore.
At that time, the Australian and New Zealand armies were very happy, thinking that it would be so easy to follow the British conquest, but they did not expect that the Ottoman Turks would fight the coalition of their two countries and flee.
At that time, the British were also very ashamed when they heard it, and did not expect that their two countries would be so unbearable, so that the empire would not fall.
Later, in order not to make Australia look ugly again, the British sent Australia to the rear of the war and let them carry out the work of sweeping, destroying enemy buildings and repairing railways.
When the British faced the mighty Germany, their armies were severely damaged, so the British once again pulled the australian army that did not exist into the frontal battlefield against the German army, and let the australian army that did not have it serve as cannon fodder.
In that battle, Australia suffered more than 200,000 casualties, and the total population of their country grew from just about 4 million. This has cost Australia a lot, so they have some bad impressions of Britain.
At the end of the world's first world war, Britain, in order to make up for Australia, officially declared Australia's official independence and was no longer a British colony.
However, Australia has completely lost its original confidence in Britain, and it has long since lost its original faith, so they have no expression of British overtures.
This kind of behavior in Australia is not only that the powerful Britain has become weaker and worse, showing a serious decay, but also because the British were beaten by the Japanese army during the conquest of Singapore, and finally more than 80,000 British soldiers surrendered.
Australian Army
Such a situation has made Australia completely lose the idea of continuing to follow Britain.
Australia, a war-obsessed country, abandoned the decaying United Kingdom and immediately turned to the powerful and belligerent United States, which had little interest in this vulnerable small country.
At the time of the Second World War, the Japanese occupied Australia, air raided Australia's seaports, and the weak Australia simply did not have any ability to fight back, so they suffered serious losses.
So they turned to the United States again. At this time, the Japanese army just bombed Pearl Harbor in the United States, and the Pacific War broke out.
When the powerful United States formally declared war on Japan and was ready to send troops to counterattack japan, Australia once again asked the United States to bring Australian troops with it during the conquest, as it had originally requested Britain, so that they could contribute to the war against the Japanese army.
Therefore, when the United States fought in the Pacific Theater, Australia appeared next to the American army every time to assist, of course, they also knew that they were weak and vulnerable, so in order to avoid serious casualties again, Australia most of the time just coordinated operations, or responsible for cleaning up the mess.
Pacific War
As a result, australian troops are never seen in the face of war, and Australian troops are always present when sweeping and attacking civilian areas.
During the U.S. attack on Japan, Australia repeatedly helped the United States search and defend the small islands occupied by the United States, and after the United States invaded The Japanese territory, the Australian army also followed suit into Japan.
Therefore, after Japan's surrender, the largest number of Australian troops on the Japanese mainland, in addition to the American troops stationed there.
At the end of World War II, Australia successfully became a member of their allies with the help of the United States, and Australia became more loyal to the United States at this time.
When the United States and the Soviet Union were fighting for hegemony, many countries joined these two camps, but when they entered the Korean battlefield and the two armies fought, few countries wanted to join it, because such a war was obviously thankless.
However, the small country of Australia took the lead in taking the lead and directly sent the troops stationed in Japan to Korea and under the unified leadership of the US army.
In the Korean War, Australia did not change the law of their repeated defeats.
Korean War
They were confident when they were holding the advanced weapons issued by the United States, but when they fought with the Chinese volunteers, their commanders were the first to die, leaving them leaderless for a while, and once again becoming a vulnerable army.
Eventually the Korean War ended in defeat, and the casualty rate of the Australian army reached fifty per cent. But Australia's strong beliefs have led them to form the will to lose and fight, and still insist on following the pace of the American war.
In 1962, when the United States was engaged in the Vietnam War, Australia once again sent reinforcements to the United States, and even sent warships to cheer, but the whirlpool of the Vietnam battlefield completely plunged the United States into a quagmire. Australia, on the other hand, was enthusiastically launching an offensive.
In order to get rid of the whirlpool of the Vietnamese battlefield, the United States had to end it hastily, and Australia had to withdraw its troops after the United States withdrew its troops.
In 1991, the Gulf War broke out, and this time the Australian state also sent warships to help the United States, but the strong scientific and technological strength of the United States had ended the battle in a short period of time, allowing the Australian warships to watch a scientific and technological war, and then happily returned to their own country.
Gulf War
In 2001, the United States launched the war in Afghanistan, Australia once again showed loyalty to the United States, sent more than 20,000 soldiers to Afghanistan, but the united states is strong enough to use them, so they mistreat local civilians in Afghanistan and carry out various atrocities.
Countless countries and peoples in the world yearn for peace, and the Australian nation originally had peace that everyone envied, but they did not cherish the peace of the world at all, and they constantly undermined it.
In the 250 years since Australia was founded, it has experienced almost all the wars in modern times, and their belligerent behavior has been condemned by many people, and their brutality in many countries will be punished as they deserve.
Some have called them the most loyal eagle dogs, apparently the most apt description of them.