People keep forgetting that the entire population of Australia is similar to that of New York, spread out over an area as large as the continental United States.

The manpower contraints will be the reason that the ADF is not capable of growing much larger than its current size.

Anything that requires significant manpower increases is a non-starter. That is one of the reasons the RAN declined the offer of first the Kidds, then later the Flight 1 Ticonderoga’s.

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