Mitchell Mark: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMitchell Mark: General Debate[Sitting date: 01 July 2015. Volume:706;Page:4998. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MARK MITCHELL (National—Rodney): Firstly I would just like to acknowledge our secondary schools and colleges that competed in Stage Challenge and in particular Ōrewa College which won its open division. I would also like to just mention the RSAs in Warkworth Wellsford and Kerikeri and in particular the president of Kerikeri Frank Lewis and the president of Wellsford Terry Blakemore. Thank you for hosting the defence white paper meetings that we held there over the last couple of weeks.Talking about the defence white paper meetings we have to note that Major Ron Mark appears to be on manoeuvres this week—he appears to be on manoeuvres. Let us talk about that. I might have to use some military terms but please bear with me. What did he use? He used the blitzkrieg. Major Mark used the blitzkrieg. This is an attack that uses concentrated force and rapid speed to break through enemy lines. But the deputy leader was quick to react. She had her colonels—she had Colonel Denis O’Rourke and Colonel Richard Prosser—and she mobilised them. She mobilised them into a blockade. A blockade is an attempt to cut off food supplies and war material.But we are dealing with an experienced veteran here who moved very quickly into a deception. He moved into a deception. A deception is a strategy that seeks to deceive trick or fool the enemy and create a false perception in a way that can be leveraged for a military advantage. He then quickly moved into a feint. Mr Peters would know about this: a feint is to draw attention to another point of the battle where little or nothing is going on. And then—it did not end there—it was straight into a flanking manoeuver. A flanking manoeuver involves attacking the opponent from the side or the rear. But Denis and Richard were ready for this. They responded quickly; they responded with a human wave attack—a human wave attack is an unprotected frontal attack—and then quickly into an indirect approach. The indirect approach—dislocation is the aim of the strategy. Direct attacks almost never work. One must upset the enemy’s equilibrium.But Mr Ron Mark is sensible. He knew that he was going to call on other fine examples of strategy in terms of a change of leadership so he decided to call on the Labour Party’s divide and conquer. The divide and conquer is to induce rival states to engage in a protracted war of attrition against each other. But he realised that things were not going his way—not this time. It was not going to work this time. But let us give him credit. He tried one more manoeuvre. He tried one more; it was the turning manoeuvre. The turning manoeuvre is an attack that penetrates the enemy’s flank and then curls into its rear to cut it off from home. He used the turning manoeuvre but unfortunately it all came to an end.The big guns arrived. The .50 calibre arrived locked and loaded ready to go—the Rt Hon Winston Peters. What did he use? Can anyone guess? He used shock and awe—shock and awe. He rolled out the shock and awe. That is right. That is an attack that penetrates—oh no sorry. I have already covered that one. The shock and awe—I have got to get this right—is a military doctrine using overwhelming power to try to achieve rapid dominance. That is what we saw unfold today. Thank you very much.