La Rouge Beret
Donor
With a pod after 2001, your challenge is to have the largest and most capable military that New Zealand can sustain, with a defense budget of 2 - 3 % of GDP. Also assume that such a build up has bipartisan support.
Maybe a terrorist attack occurs in New Zealand making NZ commit more forces to the War on Terror? Or if National was in power in 2003 (Winston goes with
Labour and they lose in 1999) then they would go into Iraq.