Potential NZDF Reforms to Combat a Growing Chinese and Russian Threats Thread

[BeNiX123]

Its my belief that the New Zealand Defence Force should begin to focus its efforts on finding and assisting allies to begin to combat Russian and Chinese expansionism. With the current instability in the United States we can no longer rely on them to effectively combat them both anymore, it is time for New Zealand to step up to the challenge just like we did with Covid-19 to help our allies defeat this threat. Our allies and potential allies like Australia and India respectively along with ourselves and other like-minded nations must not make the mistake of Neville Chamberlain and never appease Russia and China never causing confrontations but never backing down from them either.

I want to reiterate Russia and China must be stopped in their colonial ambitions and New Zealand must step up to help fill the void left over from the US and while we should never advocate for war we can never run from it. There is a quote from the Romans, "Si vis pacem parabellum" which means "If you want peace prepare for war" this perfectly personifies what New Zealand and our allies must do.

 

[BeNiX123]

To do this the New Zealand Defence Force is going to need reforms. These reforms would need to focus on drone swarms, quick reaction forces, amphibious expeditionary forces, small long range highly mobile gun boats similar to the Iranian Navy, cyber warfare and making its forces as quick, light, versatile and agile as possible. The last recommendation should encompass the entire tri-service in the NZDF and adopting similar tactics in that of The Art of War by Sun Tzu. I don't believe that increasing the amount of frigates is a good idea due to the fact that in a conflict the enemy can easily replace a lost ship however if New Zealand loses a ship that'll be an entire national asset gone that would not be able to be easily replaced. It also will place easily identifiable targets to strike, compared to having many smaller gun boats like the pt boats of World War 2 will make it much more difficult to identify targets to hit. These gun boats will also be much easier to replace domestically due to them being much cheaper to produce as well as needing less crew to maintain and operate allowing for many more ships to be built and utilized. During peacetime these ships can also be used as maritime patrol stopping illegal fishing and other illegal acts in our exclusive economic zone.

 

[Preceptor]

Closed & locked thread, as it was opened in the wrong area and duplicates an existing thread which is in the correct area. A NZDF discussion thread is already open, active and long-running in Geostrategic Issues.
-Preceptor