Originally Posted by
ORAC
So you envisage spending billions buying tanks and all the logistics necessary to defend and perform a fighting retreat over the GAFA?
Whilst the enemy would, logically, attack the few major littoral cities where 90% of the population live and tanks aren’t the optimum means of defence?
You can fight WWII over again with a scenario of a landing around Darwin from New Guinea, but it don’t think China thinks that way…
My point exactly.
I had thought the Abrams were bought to be embarked (by ship or C-17) for infantry cover in the near island chains.
If the expectation is that they'll be used to defend the homeland - then that's just laughable and the Australian Army needs a brain transplant.
By the time anyone reaches Australian shores - the future war will have been long fought and won.