defence of an island
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Send one SSK to patrol the area. Pack whatever available space on the rock with SSMs. Then bury a huge amount of explosives underneath everything and place the detonator on a dead man's switch.
Scorched Earth.
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Actually this is not the first case of defending (or more specifically staking a claim to) a small island. PLA has platoon-sized forces in several islands in the disputed Spratlys and Paracels. I understand there are power generators on the islands, but food and even fuel for the generators have to be shipped in. The entire operation is more symbolic than functional, only to show their presence and ownership of the island - there's very little what a platoon of soldiers with limited assets (a few guns and boats) can do in the middle of nowhere.
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Any defense of the island will need the additional back-up from the ''mainland''.
Taiwan's Amoy Island - that is just about one kilometer from mainland China and facing Xiamen - had seen the continuous exchange of artillery fire since the retreat of the Kuomintang to Taiwan Island in 1949, and with most Xiamen residents living in a war zone for more then thirty years.
The defense of the Chinese claimed islands in the South-china Sea will require the platoon size defense to have additional air and naval support from Mainland China.
If anyone intend to turn up the temperature to claim any islands, they will need to also lose a chunk of ''mainland territory'' as the war theatre will surely be enlarged to draw away the efforts of the main aggressor thrust from swamping over the lightly defended island.
This will surely happen as a punitive reaction if the attacker is able to takeover the island.
A larger chunk of real estate taken off the ''aggressor nation's mainland'' in exchange for the loss of the island taken over by military force ?
This will be a good proposition for land-starved Singapore.
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Originally posted by Fatum:
beach road of course ...
$85 in the back of the room if you don't want to sign 1206 ...
far out! $85...