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In addition, there are problems with large deployments and popular opinion yes, though in the case of self-defence the latter would no doubt vanish fairly quickly. I've heard the stories too, but without evidence they are little more than stories. Lots of people go missing, for lots of reasons. Some people may prefer the idea that their loved ones were taken by force. Its better than imagining they left of their own accord, or are dead. Some may be true, but without evidence...who's to say? |
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![]() And I end up imagining JMSDF and RAN frigates waking people up somewhere in the Philippines with gun reports and explosions coming from out to sea. The respective submarine forces might be the most lethal combatants. Collins-class boats seem to have all the range they need, being designed to operate throughout the I.O. Or we're faced with the spectacle of each country's P-3 Orions (they'd have the range) popping at each other with aircrew pistols out of the pilots' windows. Determining the winners would have to be by decision, though... counting the bullet holes in the planes' skins. Quick, install some rails for Sidewinders. ![]() But if either nation had to work up its own complete, blue-water navy, their likely urgent theaters of operations would be the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific, covering both the majority of their shipping traffic and their connection with the Persian Gulf oil states.
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