Review: Good story but needs some editing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 4, 2014
As an Aussie and ex army I enjoyed the book despite the editing problems. The author clearly identified limitations of the Australian Defence Force in respect to it's size and readiness.Just a few of the editing issues I identified are:* The Australian Army is the correct title, while some units and Corps carry the title Royal it is not appropriate to assign the title to the army as a whole.* While Reserve units have weapons in their armouries no live ammunition is carried on base as a matter of common practice.* The RAAF does have Hawk trainers which could be used as ground attack aircraft and therefore could have been incorporated into the story line.Overall a good and, unfortunately, realistic scenario. Given that during WWII Australia fielded 4 AIF infantry divisions, numerous militia brigades  an Armoured division and numerous support units, I would have expected that even with the major cities destroyed the country should be able to raise a far larger force then is depicted. The real problem would be how to maintain logistical support to the forces given the outsourcing of some weapons, ammunition and other essential combat and combat support equipment to offshore suppliers.