We have most of our bases here in Japan and Korea. Australian ships come into Singapore, airplanes fly in and out. We do a specific mission and then we come back. But the idea that you have your forces out there in areas of the world where there may be violence and trouble, rather than just holding them back at home and waiting for things to really get bad, is what I was talking about. And that's the way we have operated in the past.
Australian forces are forward in the Persian Gulf.
They were there in the Gulf war and have been there in maritime intercept operations since then. Australia's leaders have decided to share. They've been talking with a bunch people about it. However, is there not an argument that the situation has changed from Australia's point of view, where the likely hot spots for the Australian strategic, foreseeable future will be closer to home, in the South Pacific and places like Timor, perhaps New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji maybe, that sort of thing. By forward, I mean anything that gets more than a few miles to several hundred or thousand miles away.