WI Australia bombed Jakarta with F-111 during the East Timor Crisis?

It still would be the first time in a long time that we, on our own have gone into a conventional war, especially one we would be escalating. If we're going after strategic targets though it would probably be a lot better received, however the Indonesians will probably still hate our guts.

Goodness me. It’s basically ASB to say we would have gone into a war on our own. As I said above, INTERFET was an international operation. The Brits were there and the US was providing support. Australia would have acted in self-defence or in response to severe provocation and other nations would have joined in or at least supported our action.
 
It still would be the first time in a long time that we, on our own have gone into a conventional war, especially one we would be escalating. If we're going after strategic targets though it would probably be a lot better received, however the Indonesians will probably still hate our guts.

As I had already told some times ago, as the news stated, this whole "F-111 bombed TNI HQ in Jakarta" will only happened if Indonesia did something funny to INTERFET landing force first , such as sneaked a submarine and sunk a transporter or two. This is unlikely, since OTL TNI saw the writing on the wall and backed down. But if it happened, international finger will point at Indonesia, and not Australia.


Yes, it will be most likely ended up with Indonesians hate Australian guts and this will probably will kill Indonesia's democratization process on its crib (even when there's a very small chance that it will ended up with Indonesians being tired of the old regime even more), because even OTL there are still animosity because Indonesians are very very sensitive about separatism. But the international opinion at that time was clear on who's "the bad guy"
 
Why would Australia actually bother going to war with Indonesia over East Timor anyways? Least of all, bombing the capital city instead of military forces on Timor.
 
It still would be the first time in a long time that we, on our own have gone into a conventional war, especially one we would be escalating. If we're going after strategic targets though it would probably be a lot better received, however the Indonesians will probably still hate our guts.

That's a chicken and egg thing though; they hate our guts so get into a shooting war, where strategic strikes from F111s make them hate us more.

in any case the F111 strikes would at least make them fearful and thus respectful.
 
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