No money means we can't defend ourselves Greg Sheridan on the con dressed up yesterday as this deceitful government's white paper on defence: We are going to get 12 new submarines, 12 new Super Hornets configured as electronic warfare Growlers, 100 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and keep the army at its current size. And all this with no money. What magic! The fact that there was not a single scrap of financial information in the paper bears out the old defence aphorism - strategy without dollars is no strategy at all... Julia Gillard and Stephen Smith expect us to take seriously their aspiration to increase Defence spending to 2 per cent of gross domestic product at some undefined point in the future... The only point of the 2 per cent aspiration is so that Smith can say he has the same aspiration as the opposition.To play such pathetic politics with the basis of our national security demonstrates the contempt and irresponsibility the Gillard government has for national security.