"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
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phil hunt wrote:

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 18:19:59 +0800, Paul Saccani
wrote:
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 05:15:15 +0100, Pooh Bear
wrote:

Ships and various targets belonging to "the enemy". I would have
thought
that was self-evident.

And just who might "the enemy" be ?

It would not be diplomatic to say who the enemy *might* be.

I'm not a diplomat: Indonesia.

Glad someone came out and said so.

Pray, please, what would Indonesia gain from attacking Australia - lots of
sheep I
guess !

As an Islamic Republic I reckon they'd like to get ****-loads of sheep
(Halal, of course). Or how about natural gas? Oil? Diamonds? Wide open
spaces?


Possible other threats might include China, Japan (unlikely givenm
its current unwarlike nature), and the other countries of South-East
Asia.

Lmao @ Japan.

He did say "unlikely" you dickhead.

China has a far simpler plan for world domination. Cheaper, more effective
and
doesn't require military force. It's called manufacturing. Check where
your last
TV / microwave / other consumer goods were made.

And they wouldn't mind getting the materials to make them with for free?

And you reckon the other poor S.E. asian countries want to invade you ?
They'll
have to get a real military first, never mind the absence of any desire
to.Get
real !

Given the long lead time in such programs, you need 100% certainty
that there will be no significant changes in our geo-political
circumstances for at least ten years. That is a big ask.

One needs to look at the capability that will exist nearby over the
next ten years at least, then factor for the low, but non-zero chance
of a radical change in circumstances.

A worst-case scenario might be China allied with Indonesia,

weeps with laughter

and
Australia doesn't have any allies,

Oh sure - you reckon the US and UK can't / won't protect your interests ?

When they're hip-deep in hot brass and grenade pins in Korea? Sure, they'll
have plenty to spare to come to our rescue.

sometime between 2010-2020. I'd
imagine by that time China would have enough advanced aircraft to
win air superiority, in which case Australia's best hope to stop an
invasion would probably be submarines (firing high-speed
cavitating torpedoes) and anti-ship missiles.

Are you just a war-monger or a madman ?

Are you just a tree-hugging peacenik or a troll?

--
De Oppresso Liber.





Graham