Bobby. wrote on Oct 20
th, 2018 at 12:09pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Oct 19
th, 2018 at 9:35pm:
Bobby. wrote on Oct 19
th, 2018 at 9:29pm:
[quote author=Brian_Ross link=1539936220/3#3 date=1539948431]Funny it looks just like a B-2, there, Bobby. Oh, dearie, dearie, me, more Chinese fan art it seems.
Don't worry -
if the Chinese ever invade they'll be kind to women and children.
That's nice. And your evidence to support that is, what exactly, Bobby?
Going to be a bit hard to invade downunder though. We are quite a bit removed from where they dwell.
I note no evidence about "how kind" the Chinese Red Army is, Bobby. How unsurprising.
Quote:Are you saying that we can defend ourselves against
a powerful country like China?
I'm curious.
For the PRC to constitute a viable, conventional threat to the Australian continent, it needs to be able to move a force at least four to five divisions in size to Australia's shores. It cannot even move a single brigade that far at the moment, Bobby.
If they could move that sized force, like any potential attacker, they would need to first negotiate Indonesia and it's territorial waters to reach Australia. Once they did that, they would then need to choose where to attack on the continent. They could take the "short route" to Australia and attack the Top End. They might capture Darwin but would then be faced with an nearly impossible overland march against the SE Corner of the continent where the Government, most of the population lives and where all the industry is located. If, OTOH, they choose the "long route" and move their forces around the continent and attack the SE corner directly they could capture a large part of the population, a large part of the industrial base and perhaps even the seat of government. In either case, their forces would be subjected to interdiction from the RAN, the RAAF and the Army. They would lose substantial quantities of men, materiale, their logistics chain would be interrupted and they might well be defeated. An invasion is about far more than just landing men on a beach, Bobby. Far more. Even if they did get ashore, they would be faced with an uncooperative population and a rudimentary traffic network. Australia, like Russia could afford to trade space for time.
Then there are our Allies, the United States in particular. Do you really believe they would stand by and watch the PRC move into Australia? We are one of their oldest and most trusted allies. It would not do their own government any good to sit by and watch that happen. Their population would be annoyed that they wouldn't have (to them) exotic places to surf...