They do have kangaroo hunting season coming up.
Peter Zeihan wrote:
>
> *I know that they’ve got that cool seismograph at pine gap*
>
> * *
>
> *But I still don’t see why put a radar in the outback?*
>
> * *
>
> * *
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Rodger Baker [mailto:rbaker@stratfor.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:16 AM
> *To:*
zeihan@stratfor.com;
nathan.hughes@stratfor.com
> *Cc:*
analysts@stratfor.com
> *Subject:* RE: [OS] US/JAPAN/AUSTRALIA: missile defense
>
> the australian outback is the place for teh major over-the-horizon
> radar systems. they already have some of these oeprational.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Peter Zeihan [mailto:zeihan@stratfor.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:15 AM
> *To:* 'Rodger Baker';
nathan.hughes@stratfor.com
> *Cc:*
analysts@stratfor.com
> *Subject:* RE: [OS] US/JAPAN/AUSTRALIA: missile defense
>
> *Ok naval makes sense -- a lot of sense*
>
> *But radars? Wouldn’t nearly any possible missile trajectory go
> the other way?*
>
> *Satellite control makes /some /sense – that could be anywhere tho*
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Rodger Baker [mailto:rbaker@stratfor.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:12 AM
> *To:*
nathan.hughes@stratfor.com;
zeihan@stratfor.com
> *Cc:*
analysts@stratfor.com
> *Subject:* RE: [OS] US/JAPAN/AUSTRALIA: missile defense
>
> australia is a location for the radar systems, and australia will
> be part of teh naval systems, to send its ships to troubled areas
> for missile defense as well.
>
> they are also planning to set up the satellite controlk and
> communications systems in OZ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Nathan Hughes [mailto:nthughes@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 23, 2007 7:48 AM
> *To:*
zeihan@stratfor.com
> *Cc:*
analysts@stratfor.com
> *Subject:* Re: [OS] US/JAPAN/AUSTRALIA: missile defense
>
> Oz missile defense only matters for Oz...and the emperor penguins.
>
> Money can't hurt, though.
>
> Peter Zeihan wrote:
>
> *Er....how would Oz fit into the picture?*
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:*
os@stratfor.com <mailto:os@stratfor.com>
> [mailto:os@stratfor.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:51 PM
> *To:*
analysts@stratfor.com <mailto:analysts@stratfor.com>
> *Subject:* [OS] US/JAPAN/AUSTRALIA: missile defense
>
> [Astrid] A growing military alliance between the US, Japan and
> Australia is not news, but I think this talk of missile
> defense involving Australia is... or was that also announced
> in April?
>
> US, Japan to study missile defence with Australia
> 23 May 2007
>
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default...3-5-2007_pg4_6
>
> TOKYO: The United States and Japan plan to study a joint
> missile defence system with Australia to counter growing
> threats in the Asia-Pacific region, a Japanese government
> source said on Tuesday.
>
> Tokyo and Washington have already begun installing a missile
> shield in and around Japan to ward off potential threats from
> North Korea. The government official said the new plan also
> took into account the possibility of a Chinese missile threat
> against Australia and Guam.
>
> Officials from Japan, the United States and Australia agreed
> to study the plan when they met in Tokyo in April, the source
> said.
>
> “The basic tenet of the plan is to step up cooperation between
> the three countries in the field of security in the
> Asia-Pacific region,” the source, who declined to be
> identified, told Reuters. The source declined to say whether
> Australia would go ahead and introduce a missile defence system.
>
> “But Australia appears quite willing to contribute to
> maintaining security in the region, and the joint study
> programme was worked out to deal with the changing security
> situation in the region,” he said. The United States and Japan
> started planning a missile defence system after North Korea
> test-fired a ballistic missile, part of which flew over Japan
> and landed in the Pacific Ocean, in 1998.
>
> Japan speeded up implementation of its missile defence
> programme after North Korea fired a volley of missiles last
> July - trucking its first PAC-3 interceptors into a military
> base north of Tokyo in March. The United States has PAC-3
> land-based interceptors on the southern island of Okinawa and
> SM-3 ship-to-air interceptors stationed at the Japanese port
> of Yokosuka.
