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Originally Posted by Louied
So having Australia having four Divs/twelve Bdes (with one Div & one Bde equipped with U.S. Material. While the others make do with Leo 1, M113s, etc)
IMHO is very doable.
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Still cannot buy that. The US as we know rapidly increases it's own military in T2K with units created from 1997 no more than light infantry. Yes they were sending equipment to China early on, but come their own entry into the European, Middle Eastern AND Korean fronts in late 1996, they're hard pressed to supply their own existing units with replacement vehicles and weapon systems, despite their much greater industrial base. There's further evidence of this in the various books where we see non-standard vehicles being requisitioned and assigned to US units - the Cadillac Gage tanks for example.
In that situation they're not about to send anything anywhere, nor are they going to risk starting yet another front in South East Asia by making threats against Indonesia.
No, Australia (and New Zealand) must stand alone. There is nobody available to help, and no supplies coming from elsewhere. Sure Australia has treaties with various nations, but just how much stock can you put in them when those allies are already stretched to breaking point?