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"Navy taskforce will be forced to rely on France and America

So in other words, blam, we're on our own."

No if the French are involved we are much worse off than if we were alone. If the French are involved how much do you want to bet that any arms shipments to Iran will happen to exit through an area controlled by French warships. Probably right after a large deposit in Chirac's bank account from an unknown Middle East source.

If there is a Quarantine Line like there was in Cuba then its going to be the South Koreans for inshore work, whatever the USN can scrape together in the Pacific and Nihon Kaigun. That should be more than enough considering the pitiful state of the North Korean Navy. Even if China decides to risk all out nuclear war with the US and break the line by force, their navy would be swept from the seas by Japanese land based air and US Carrier aircraft. Given the quality and training of the Peoples Liberation Army Air Force, the close proximity of Japan's phenomenal airfields and swarms of F15 and J2 fighters we have the home field advantage despite being off the enemies coast.

While having the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy would be great, especially due to the fact that the RN is probably the best trained fleet in the world, we don't need them. So far as the French are concerned we not only don't need them, we don't want them closer to Korea than the Bay of Biscay.