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with 5,000 Leopards and 3,000 armored vehicles Indonesia could succesfully invade indochinese mainland5000 is too much you need to have 2500 to 3000 Tanks and 3000 + towed and self propelled Artillery and an Army with 400000 personal at least
nice tanks. for a country of your size, I think 1,000 MBTs are a good number.
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hardly needed thousands Main Battle Tank fleet like Leo-2, Just to have around 400 to 800 Leo-2 in inventory is more than enough to form four to six cavalry brigade and around one or two armored division. As archipelago country we must thinking on how to transport them around island to island, and surely to transporting a cavalry brigade with more than 100 Leo-2 and around 50 Marder 1A3 with their more than 1800 personnel and crew, we needed more than 8 LST with more than 3000 GWT for each ship, around two to four Logistic/Oiler ship, and five to seven Escort ship like Sigma Class frigate/corvette to accompany them.
with 800 heavy tanks, you could start an ground invasion of Malaysia. I think your armed forces in 10 years can conquer Malaysia. the long time frame is needed to prepare an invasion. look at the historial invasions and considering you are not ready yet. however, to invade indochinese mainlaind (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma), you need more. I guess 5,000 heavy tanks at least and 5,000 other armored vehicles. Vietnam ground force alone has more than 2,000 heavy tanks and many 1,000s other armored vehicles. Surely, these assets are not modern, but still pose a high challenge for a hostile invasion force.
to successfully land on enemy shores (for example Vietnam), you need superiority in sea and arial theaters. you practically need at least the size of the chinese combined naval fleet and the power of japanese airforces.
I don´t take Singapore modern armed forces into the consideration.
all just a theoretical thought in case, Indonesia has territorial ambition and wants to become the boss of SE Asia
No you also need large Army troops on ground are always important to havemeh we only need to build a large navy and air forces, then no one dare to land in one of Indonesian island.
Our main doctrine of defence since Independence day is called HANKAMRATA the Total War Defense participation of military, civilian combantant and non combatants.No you also need large Army troops on ground are always important to have
Our main doctrine of defence since Independence day is called HANKAMRATA the Total War Defense participation of military, civilian combantant and non combatants.
Its a doctrine based on the worst case scenario where our regular army and all our main military equipment are crippled and overruns by the invaders. We developed system that even when the invaders hold our capital and major cities, our government still ruled and able to conduct mass guerrilla warfare in all our territory. Just like during the independence war situation when our leaders are taking captive by the Dutch and Allied military, the rest of the army blended and mixed with local militias conducting seperated military uprising and guerrilla warfare all across our vast archipelago. Different tribes, ethnic but still fight under the same banners and not fall into disintegration.
This doctrines developed to prepared us to fight against superior external forces (such as the superpower nations).
Our soldiers are trained in modern methods of fighting and accustomed to operate modern weapons and technology, but they can easily switched to fight as guerrilla forces.
Thats why the majority of our army organization based on battalion level, not division or brigade level. This is to make it easier to operates in guerrilla warfares.
Only Kostrad and the Marine Corps organized in Division level,but all territorial army are fashioned in battalion level.
So you think Hankamrata is all out fight to the death of all people? you totally wrong.we are far from the words of had been prepared to fight against any ground invasion, how much percentage of our peoples has doing any combat training or military drill? how much Indonesia has military stockpiles to arms and sustain any prolonged combats for all able bodied peoples to face against such forces? We are far cry from Hankamrata, to throwing peoples without arms nor military skills against such superior firepower of our enemy is a sin, a big ones.
So you think Hankamrata is all out fight to the death of all people? you totally wrong.
Its not throwing civilians into armed fight, the fight would be conducted by our military forces but with the ability to switch from conventional warfare into guerrilla warfare. Hankamrata doesnt mean all people going all out last stand kind of thing, it means people and soldiers are becoming one, supporting each other. To conduct guerrilla warfare you need the support of local people.
This is one of the objective of what we called "Pembinaan teritorial" conducted by BABINSA up to "Penyuluh Pertanian" at the village level. This is based on the scenario when all our main weapons and main striking force (Kostrad & Marine Corps) are overrun by larger attacking forces so territorial army (in battalion level) can continue their resistance in guerrilla warfares relying on local civilian supports in logistic.