"Alan Minyard" wrote in message
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Even if they could its faster and cheaper to buy/build cruise
missiles/ASMs
than it is to buy/build an invasion fleet.


You need boots on the ground. Cruise missiles, etc, can help, but the
cannot
invade. Australia is (IMHO) counting on the US to come to the rescue. That
is not a bad assumption, as we would not let the Indos take Oz.

Australia has boots on the ground.

There is no credible invasion threat to Australia and an attempt to build
one would be easily detected.

It would require massive airpower (including AWACS and tankers), serious
amounts of AAW escorts and ASW escorts, a huge logistic support organisation
(land and sea) and then a large, deliverable Army and the means to deliver
it to Aust.

None of which Indonesia has.

In the case of invasion or attack Australia would call on its allies just
like the US did, but Australia already has the means to deal with any
credible invasion/raid of Aust and it seems likely that if Indonesia began
to scale up the sort of forces that would be needed to invade Aust, Aust
would start to scale up the forces needed to prevent it.