ENEMY forces are dug in and poised in the jungles of Northern Australia waiting for thousands of allied troops to storm ashore and drop from the skies for the nation’s biggest war game — Talisman Sabre 2015.

The Seventh Fleet is the biggest American naval force with 51 ships, 10 submarines, 170 aircraft and 40,000 personnel.

That is more fire power than the entire Australian Defence Force.

When asked directly if China figured in any of the exercise planning his response was, “No”.

He said the exercise focus was on interoperability between the forces involved.

“You really develop a common play book between Australian defence forces and US military so that we can respond to any contingency,” Admiral Thomas said.

"interoperability" - you keep using that word. I do not think that it means what you think that it means.