Beware: the new goths are
coming
ONE of Britain’s most senior military strategists has
warned that western civilisation faces a threat on a
par with the barbarian invasions that destroyed the
Roman empire.
In an apocalyptic vision of security dangers, Rear
Admiral Chris Parry said future migrations would be
comparable to the Goths and Vandals while north
African “barbary” pirates could be attacking yachts
and beaches in the Mediterranean within 10 years.
Europe, including Britain, could be undermined by
large immigrant groups with little allegiance to their
host countries — a “reverse colonisation” as Parry
described it. These groups would stay connected to
their homelands by the internet and cheap flights.
The idea of assimilation was becoming redundant,
he said.
The warnings by Parry of what could threaten
Britain over the next 30 years were delivered to
senior officers and industry experts at a conference
last week. Parry, head of the development,
concepts and doctrine centre at the Ministry of
Defence, is charged with identifying the greatest
challenges that will frame national security policy in
the future.
If a security breakdown occurred, he said, it was
likely to be brought on by environmental destruction
and a population boom, coupled with technology
and radical Islam. The result for Britain and Europe,
Parry warned, could be “like the 5th century Roman
empire facing the Goths and the Vandals”.
Parry pointed to the mass migration which disaster
in the Third World could unleash. “The diaspora
issue is one of my biggest current concerns,” he
said. “Globalisation makes assimilation seem
redundant and old-fashioned . . . [the process] acts
as a sort of reverse colonisation, where groups of
people are self-contained, going back and forth
between their countries, exploiting sophisticated
networks and using instant communication on
phones and the internet.”
Third World instability would lick at the edges of the
West as pirates attacked holidaymakers from fast
boats. “At some time in the next 10 years it may not
be safe to sail a yacht between Gibraltar and Malta,”
said the admiral.
Parry, 52, an Oxford graduate who was mentioned
in dispatches in the Falklands war, is not claiming all
the threats will come to fruition. He is warning,
however, of what is likely to happen if dangers are
not addressed by politicians.
Parry — who used the slogan “old dog, new tricks”
when he commanded the assault ship HMS
Fearless — foresees wholesale moves by the
armed forces to robots, drones, nanotechnology,
lasers, microwave weapons, space-based systems
and even “customised” nuclear and neutron bombs.
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