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Originally Posted by Olefin
I agree with much of what you said Leg but I think they will send more like company size based on their current dispositions in Afghanistan. May be as little as an MP company or a single infantry company but you dont use the fuel it takes to send men over for just 30 men.
And Australia does have good production facilities for ships and subs - i.e. the current series of frigates and the Collins subs. So that could be where they prove beneficial to the US - as a place to repair their ships and refit them.
It could be where the special US/Australian relationships comes from that was in 2300AD. I.e. keeping the USN in business (especially if the US helped with Indonesia) was where it all started.
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Afghanistan is not a good basis for comparison, it's nothing like the commitment we'd have with the Twilight War (we can concentrate resources in Afghanistan that would not be available in the Twilight War).
However, I agree that it simply would not be worth the fuel to send anything smaller than a Company anywhere.
Our Military Police don't operate in the same manner as US Army MP Companies do, the MPs are usually sent in small groups to where ever they are required. They don't have the assets or personnel to do something like convoy escort like the US MPs do.