Stones throw my ass. Its at least 40 mins by boat. Let me educate you a little. With just the standing SAF regulars force and the SPF, we have about 120,000 armed men in SIngapore. We are not counting reservists. Conventional military wisdom says u need a force of 3 to 1 in favour of the attacker at the point of attack to succeed. The Indons would have to load a force of about 360,000 men onto ships and sail them through some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, and do that without anyone seeing them to achieve total surprise attack. If you use Riau islands as the jumping off point, you are still faced with shipping 360,000 men, their heavy equipment like tanks, and arty pieces to the Riau islands. Its a logistical impossibility even for the US. During the Normandy Landing, the largest fleet ever assembled in the history of mankind (about 7,000 vessels) landed 157,000 men in 24hrs on a wide frontage. During the first Gulf WAr, Operation Desert Storm, the US Navy fleet of 100 ships off Kuwait could only manage to embark 17,000 Marines for the liberation of Kuwait. To even land a measely 5,000 troops from riau islands is a huge naval undertaking. To land 100,000 is an impossibility for them or for any world power. Now you know the magnitude of what u claim is so easy, "a stone's throw" my ass. U know shit about military stuff, don't come and quote me Malta and all that crap.
