Australia should invade new zealand

Around 2, Australian men enlisted for the irregular New Zealand militia units. Military agents went to New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland, Melbourne, Geelong and various towns on the Victorian gold fields offering land grants to those who enlisted. The majority of men who enlisted were single men, however, around 1, wives and children joined them and settled in New Zealand. Entries in the CD-ROM Nominal and descriptive rolls of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Waikato regiments, show name, number, date and place of enlistment, place of birth, occupation, age, height and ship to New Zealand and some entries show marital status and discharge date.

Those who enlisted in the four Waikato regiments were eligible for a land grant and were subject to Conditions upon which land in the Waikato Country, in the Province of Auckland, will be granted to volunteer militiamen willing to perform the after mentioned military services.

The Australian War Memorial's online guide, Researching Australian military service: New Zealand, contains valuable information. Online information can be found in the British forces in Victoria and the Defending Victoria websites. In any case, an assault on New Zealand was likely to be mostly cyber, which would be effective in making people compliant.

The power grid could also be shut down, and government communications interrupted. New Zealand was a classic case of a place that could be encircled and have its supply lines cut off. The Chinese always come up in these discussions, but they aren't the only ones. A lot of actors are playing the influence game. Buchanan raised the possibility New Zealand could get sucked into a dispute over the South China Sea.

That's going to drag in a lot of other players. Latest developments from that area, as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald , include China landing heavy bombers on an island in the South China Sea, and installing anti-ship and anti-aircraft cruise missiles on some islands. That's despite other countries in the region claiming the islands, and negotiations supposedly under way to prevent such escalation.

If New Zealand were to get sucked into a hot war in the South China Sea, the Chinese could go after targets in this country such as listening posts for the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, Buchanan said. You wouldn't have to invade to make the point we should stay out.

Yes, New Zealand is hard to invade. But experts say there are 'many subtle ways to attack a country'. Michael Daly , May 23 New Zealand has just two frigates.