South Pacific Defence Ministers Plan: Expanding Military Role in the Region
The Pacific Military Alliance excludes the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Samoa. A Colonial Legacy. The Pacific Military Alliance is a Military Alliance for French, and British Colonial Spheres of Influence, precluding former German Colonies like the Solomon Islands and Samoa and the former French Colony of New Hebrides, Vanuatu, from having a military branch of Government. The SPDMM military Alliance would be considered as the Pacific Island version of AUKUS, aimed at consolidating the AUKUS and French, albeit post-colonial Spheres of influence within the Pacific Region and, more importantly, as a response to the ineluctable rise of an expansive Chinese Sphere of Influence and more particularly the nascent Blue Water Navy. The Pacific Alliance Military Branches of Government include Colonial France, (New Caledonia and French Polynesia, including Tahiti), Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga and Papua New Guinea. More broadly, the longer reach for the Pacific Military Alliance should a...