The Commonwealth vs USA , page 3
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reply posted on 9-11-2011 @ 02:52 AM by cartenz
Bump.

I agree that the SAS are among the worlds best soldiers, but as mentioned already there are only a handful of them, if they wre active on US soil they would be well outnumbered (could an ICBM hit the barracks is Swanborne and take them out the picture?).

Curtial in this hypothetical conflict is Naval power--Australia just does not have the fleet to even annoy the US Navy, neither do Rule Britannia.

A friend of mine who server in the Australia Navy in Timor and Iraq once mentioned an "incident" off Timor involving the Indonesian Navy--I wont go into detail but my friend was VERY clear that if they wernt supported by a US destroyer then they would have been F#

Being that I think this hypothetical conflict will be mainly fought at sea--there are 2 strategic advantages the commonwealth has over the US navy:
1. Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt could be destroyed very quickly by RAAF air strikes, leaving the US without any communications to their submarine fleet in the souther hemisphere
2. Deigo Garcia IS still property of the crown, and possibly close enough to India for a (hot) missile strike.

The US could easily destableize many of the smaller commonwealth nations without sending in troops. Really IF a conflict were to occur it would be fought on economic fronts..

The only hope the Commonwealth would have would be from their major trading partners, in the case of Canadia and Australia: China. If China decides to weigh in then I guess we just started WW4...

On a side note, the ANU classify the USA as Australia's biggest threat to sovereignty... hmmm

Really tho, we in the Commonwealth settle our disputes in a civilized manner; with cricket!, and we know the yanks cant play. So what if we cant beat them at war; we can beat them at cricket!!



reply posted on 16-11-2011 @ 11:57 AM by Sicksicksick
Originally posted by bluemirage5
reply to
post by OzTruth



The Commonwealth nations especially Britain, Scotland, Australia, NZ and Canada fought more wars than the Americans; our Commonwealth soldiers are far more experienced, better trained and far better desciplined. Our SAS is the world's very best (coming in 2nd are the Israeli special units). Any of the American special forces/units are no match for the SAS out on the field.

The IAF have the very best pilots although the USA have better aircrafts.

What the USA have on their side is the world's best military technology. Without America's technology, the Americans are no match for the 5 main Commonwealth nations.



Scotland is a part of Britain.
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