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Originally Posted by Schone23666
I was looking at the Australian Navy, and was wondering, do they have plans to boost offensive capability with cruisers or carriers?
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Originally Posted by Schone23666
Only three destroyers? Sheesh.
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Cruisers or carriers? LOL! We might have a continent all to ourselves but most of it is pretty much uninhabitable. We only have 22 million or so people, and our defence spending is a fairly modest proportion of our GST.
It is unfortunate that Australia is an Asia-Pacific nation, what with the many billions of neighbors we have. Australia is a first-world nation with a very well developed economy and strong tech base but we are few in number, us Aussies. And we don't have the centuries of tradition demanding a strong military presence like the US does.
Personally I'd love to see Australia massively increase the size of its military but, at least in the short to medium terms, it's just not going to happen.