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Old 08-28-2006, 05:41 AM   #151 (permalink)
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What islands is that specifically?

You mean your own? As in to control your own population?

Please clarify.

Timor I would hazard a guess.
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Old 08-28-2006, 21:23 PM   #152 (permalink)
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That seems reasonable, no? With all those F-22s, you'd have incredible dominance. Indonesia would have nothing to threaten you. With untouchable local air superiority, in any potential scenario, no one would be able to threaten your shores. You could spend the rest on a good navy, logistics support, and a respectable expeditionary force.
The Indo's have nothing to threaten us with anyway, yeah sure they bought some SU-30's, but they are a GUNS ONLY platform, cause they can't afford to buy all the nice missiles for them.
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Old 08-28-2006, 22:38 PM   #153 (permalink)
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What islands is that specifically?

You mean your own? As in to control your own population?

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Polynesia, Melanesia and in a more extreme scenario Indonesia (say a civil war broke out). Probably the biggest operation on the likely horizon is PNG, which is an absolute basket case. It's pretty much going to be entirely up to us to intervene and try to calm things down and put the country on track when it completely collapses, as it almost certainly will.
After all, we really don't want a lawless smuggler's paradise within sight of our nothern coast. As it stands, it was a stretch for us to deploy everything we needed to re-stabalise East Timor in 1999, PNG would probably be impossible for us in our present state since it's about 4 times larger in area and population.
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The Indo's have nothing to threaten us with anyway, yeah sure they bought some SU-30's, but they are a GUNS ONLY platform, cause they can't afford to buy all the nice missiles for them.
I don't think they want to threaten us anyway. Their defence concerns are all internal these days, and they have their hands more than full.
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