Reashot Xigwin
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No, my friend, you need to put more on the poker table.
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
If we did go to war with Vietnam we only need to force the Vietnamese government to surrender by precision strike & arm the pro-democracy forces on Vietnam as our "ground forces."
No need for an actual ground invasion when we only need to strike at your weakness. Even Singapore can "destroy" Vietnam easily.
This is all just theoretical of course.