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Speaker 1: One of the world's largest military exercises is underway in Australia.

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Speaker 1: It's called Operation Talisman Saber. It involves thirty five thousand

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Speaker 1: personnel from nineteen countries, including the US, UK and of

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Speaker 1: course ourselves. Lieutenant Colonel Tim TUATTENI is over in Australian

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Speaker 1: is with US morning Tim more than a heather. I imagine

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Speaker 1: the Chinese are watching this closely. What do you think.

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Speaker 2: I'm not too sure they can see me at the moment,

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Speaker 2: to be.

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Speaker 1: Fair or not. Our conversation, it was meaning the operation.

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Speaker 1: They're going to be out there having a look at it,

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Speaker 1: aren't they?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look, you know, really we're here and I'm sure

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Speaker 2: there's an interest, But there's an interest right across in

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Speaker 2: the Pacific, and that's why we're here. I mean, as

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Speaker 2: you said in your introduction, there's nineteen nations here. It's

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Speaker 2: a large exercise, and you know, Talisman Saber is essentially

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Speaker 2: a bilateral between Australia and US. Australia in our closest

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Speaker 2: ally also also includes a number of nations and it's

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Speaker 2: across I suppose we call it a multi domain operation exercise.

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Speaker 2: But to put it into sort of simple terms, it's

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Speaker 2: an exercise that focuses on enhancing interoperability and combat readiness

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Speaker 2: across what we call the domains, which is air, land, maritime,

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Speaker 2: cyber and space.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what have you guys taken over? You've taken

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Speaker 1: a vessel? Have you just taken the one drone?

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Speaker 2: No? Look, we've we've got a number of capabilities over here.

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Speaker 2: There are a number of that. There are the ships here.

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Speaker 2: We have our rotor wing, our pates, and we've also

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Speaker 2: a number of our our ground forces, our labs, our

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Speaker 2: land combat capability. Some of them have actually been here

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Speaker 2: for a month already in a number of leading exercises

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Speaker 2: diamonds stripe we call it, and they've been here for

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Speaker 2: a month and they now transition into the talisman saber.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, tim, do you guys sort of and reflect

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Speaker 1: on the chances that you may have to go to

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Speaker 1: warn If you do, how do you rate them?

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Speaker 2: Look? I think this is our ability to be part

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Speaker 2: of these large certainly this exercise. I mean historically we've

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Speaker 2: always sort of stood shoulder shoulder with our ausimates and

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Speaker 2: then you know, way back to talk about the ANZACs,

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Speaker 2: but certainly through contemporary operations and even today we're serving

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Speaker 2: side by side in modern operations around the globe, and

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Speaker 2: the ability for us, even though we're a small part

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Speaker 2: of this very large exercise, it's our people and we're

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Speaker 2: very high quality people. A chance to integrate small teams,

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Speaker 2: individuals and even sub units and be part of a

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Speaker 2: large exercise like this which very much pushes off our

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Speaker 2: training and allows us to exercise our combat readiness.

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Speaker 1: Tim, good luck, Thank you very much for your time.

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Speaker 1: Tim to a teeny senior national officer, Lieutenant colonel at

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Speaker 1: the nz DEF and speaking of the chances of going

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Speaker 1: to war. Albanesi Anthony Alberzi has been asked if Australia

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Speaker 1: would follow the US into war over Taiwan if it

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Speaker 1: ever came to that. He is declining to answer that question.

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