Re: Alice-Darwin and East Timor

["Bill Miller" <backtran@optusnet.com.au>]

Neither of these instances had an actual invasion force on Aust soil.

Tom Jones wrote in message <37e45fcd.0@kastagir.senet.com.au>...
>Surely the reverse is applicable
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>The Alice-Darwin line wasn't required to win WW2.  Neither was it required
>to deploy military forces to Timor.  So it's not required on military
>grounds.
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>Tom
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>Ian McFadyen wrote in message news:FXlE3.16215
>> Very good point. One of the main reasons for developing rail connections
>to
>> the far north is to enhance our responsiveness in military and other
>> emergency situations. Rail is an essential tool for the rapid transport
of
>> food, supplies, troops and in the case of attack or natural disaster,
>> evacuation. Perhaps one good thing that might emerge from the current
>> unpleasantness with Indonesia is a realisation that a rapid, heavy duty
>rail
>> line from Darwin to the southern states needs to be completed sooner
>rather
>> than later.
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