Former Defence Minister Ron Mark critiques New Zealand's military capability and strategic relevance in a potential US-led effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, highlighting questions about command structures, data integration, and global geopolitical shifts, particularly Chinaâ
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Well, the first thing we've got to do is find out what's actually happening, what the proposal is, what it looks like, who's commanding, you know, whether there'll be a ceasefire in place ahead of time, ahead of the deployment. And then we've got to look at our capabilities. And to be perfectly honest with you, Heather, we don't have a lot to offer these days. In fact, my humble opinion is that we are, we are. We're strategically irrelevant in terms of our military capability right now. There's probably only one capability that stands out to me as being deployable, and the question is for how long? Probably P-8s, and I can hear my pitch at Cabinet around the need to have five of them and getting pushback to four. And right now, I guess the question is if we were to deploy that capability... How prepared are we to integrate our data transfer systems with an element that is not five eyes? And so there's a whole bunch of questions that they're going to have to have answered before they can make an informed decision. And I guess the first top of the list is going to be, well.
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