The Great Emu War becomes a humorous example of armed force failing to achieve its task. Machine guns and troops in lorries fail to stop the emus going where they want. The joke depends on the gap between the equipment available and the inability to redirect the birds. Descriptions of the emus as Australia's undefeated rulers and superior strategists are comic exaggerations. The operational criticism concerns the failure to divert the animals despite the force deployed.
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The Great Emu War as an operational mismatch
Machine guns and lorries fail to divert the emus in a comic account of an operation that could not achieve its task.