Panther wrote on Sep 7
th, 2015 at 12:59pm:
China, Indonesia, Malaysia, VietNam, N. Korea, anyone with a larger military than us.....about 90% of our so called "Friendly" neighbors.
We are either directly Allied with or friendly now with all those nations except North Korea. None have a stated intention of attacking or invading our continent and if they did, good luck to them because none have the means to achieve it.
Quote:After all the ADF all up couldn't much more than half fill the MCG. The Indonesians alone have a 400,000+ military force.
The Australia Army has approximately 27,000 personnel in it. The RAAF has approximately 12 thousand personnel and the RAN about 7 thousand.
Our nearest neighbour has an effective military force of only about 30,000. It's air force is minuscule and under-equipped as is it's navy. Most of the 400,000 are allocated directly to internal security duties and consist of military police which are lightly equipped. They lack the means to get to Australia and the means to sustain any invading force. They are faced with the eternal question which faces any attacker - where? The short route against the Top End where very little population or industry is or the long route to the SE corner where the population and industry are concentrated. Both have advantages and disadvantages. Neither is easy.