User blog comment:ProudAmerican1776/Operation Crimson Melody/@comment-24171828-20150629222146/@comment-5846899-20150629232113

We need to be able to have a sizable force to counter the Germans in the area the Coalition currently controls, which is less than a third of Australia, and we need to be able to land Marines somewhere further from the Coalition controlled territory so they can't put as many troops into fighting on both sides, but still close enough to supply it from the sea.