Re: [OT]Wither Canada? And Australias Abrahms

At 11:04 PM -0800 2/5/05, Scott Siebold wrote:
>  >  Singapore??  Too much tightrope  walking to let
>>themselves
>>become associated with any superpower outside the
>>region.
>Strange you bring it up but I was reading about the
>buildup of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) Navy.
>If I read it correctly there will be at least two
>large carriers in the PRC Navy and the support ships
>to defend them within the next five years.

There's more to successful and effective carrier 
ops than building the carrier and operating them. 
They'll have to run them to sea regularly and 
practice practice practice. They don't have the 
cadre of people to teach the new guys the science 
and art of ship board fixed wing aviation 
operations so I suspect they'll have to learn all 
the things the US and Royal Navy's did over the 
last 100 years.

>Give China a couple of victories against their local
>neighbors in the potential "oil grab" for islands
>game and they may end up a super power. Take all of

It'll take more than that to challenge the US and 
Royal Navy and also not annoy the Japanese too 
much. But, Australia might want to watch to the 
North a bit in the next 10 years.
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