On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 08:02:58 +0100, Pooh Bear wrote:

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 !

There's lots of reasons a war might break out, for example over
fishery or oil rights in disputed waters between the 2 countries, or
an Australian politician might be assissinated by people with
alledged links to terrorist groups alledgedly supported by Indonesia
or there could be a conflict originating with a 3rd country e.g.
PNG. Or both countries might be led by politicians wanting to "talk
tough" to divert attention from domestic troubles. Or a combination
of factors.

China has a far simpler plan for world domination. Cheaper, more effective and
doesn't require military force. It's called manufacturing.

Absolutely. But, who will be running China in 15 years time? I don't
know -- do you?

Check where your last
TV / microwave / other consumer goods were made.

I've just looked and TV has "Made in Europe" on the back.

And you reckon the other poor S.E. asian countries want to invade you ?

"You"? You seem to be under the illusion that I'm Australian -- I'm
not. BTW, the Internet is a worldwide phenomenon.

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 ?

Speaking as a UK person, I think public sentiment in the UK would
favour saupporting Austalia militarily, unless Australia had done
something major to **** off the UK recently. However, Australian
military planners cannot rely on foreign support.

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 ?

Can't I be *both*? [FX: evil laughter].

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