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.

From a Sunday Times article headed, “Beware: the new goths are coming”.

I recall John Keegan writing many years ago that the British Army was one of the very few institutions remaining in this country imbued with a high moral ethos.  That analysis is borne out here, I think, for the rest of the armed forces by Rear Admiral Parry.

His warnings were contained in a speech delivered last week to the Royal United Services Institute in, of course, always vibrant and equal Central London.  He “heads the development, concepts and doctrine centre, set up in 1998 and based at Shrivenham, Wiltshire.  It has more than 50 staff and is being expanded to include extra analysts.”  It is tasked with blue skies thinking ... skies in which, self-evidently, there aren’t many politically correct boundaries.

He seems to have arrived at his model of social cataclysm in the West because he was asked to determine how global warming will impact on the future defence of the realm.  That’s a nice, wide doorway to all the immigration issues with which MR readers are familiar, and to his credit Parry walked through.

Of course there are shortcomings with the scope of his analysis.  He has to stop at the boundary of his remit, and merely commend the same politicians who have done all they can to pursue cultural and racial Marxism to somehow attend to the cataclysmic consequences.  A blue skies political thinker might have concluded that the feeble, selfish men who populate the green benches of the Commons (or, indeed, the rather comfortable-looking blue chairs of the House of Representatives) are thorough-going creatures of the liberal zeitgeist, and will never be capable of the moral stand that the times require.

The logical extention of Parry’s thinking takes us into what governance is likely as the gap between the official fantasies of advanced liberalism and reality yawns.  Leviathan is one dark possibility, and a military mind should really be sufficiently interested in that to explore his employer’s role therein.  But the recovery of native ethnocentrism, and its political expression, also constitute a possibility, if one that not even Rear Admiral Parry can mention in polite society yet.