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Originally Posted by Rainbow Six
Even factoring these possibilities in - and they are only possibilities - remember the Australians are going to want to retain some (probably the majority) of their troops for home defence and the entire regular New Zealand Army is currently a reinforced Brigade Group (it may have been larger in 1990)
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For reference about NZ overseas commitments:
In 1991, we contributed very little manpower to the Coalition
In 1994, we contributed one company group to UNPROFOR in the former Yugoslavia (actually placed under British command)
In 2000-2002, we contributed heavily to the mission in East Timor. At peak, there were over 1,000 NZ servicemen and women in East Timor, our largest deployment since Korea. We were with our good Aussie buddies. I remember at the time in NZ it felt like everyone was going and it really stretched resources; many Territorials got called up and sent. This was of course essentially in our own back yard.
Currently, all arms, I think we have about 8,000 active personnel, with around 2,000 reserves. The army has about 4,500 active and almost all of the reserves.