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| Deleted User | Mar 11 2011, 01:34 AM Post #21 |
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Don't get me wrong, I don't want any innocent Russians or Chinese to die. But this enlightened, informed American knows what they ultimately want most.....OUR downfall.....and outta the picture.....permanently..... |
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| Demoness | Mar 11 2011, 01:36 AM Post #22 |
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Half your population cannot be military. Your country's economy couldn't support that, or if it did, your troops would be horribly outfitted and therefore pretty much useless. I haven't particularly bothered with my military as I've stayed out of NS war RP. I don't think my country would have cut its military budget since the War, but I think most of its money went into the MAD policy afterward. The army air division is likely weak in comparison to other countries, but the army has the majority of funds, provided no one really challenges Demoness' ridiculous territorial waters' claims. |
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| Deleted User | Mar 11 2011, 01:42 AM Post #23 |
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Veskerius has most lilkely the strongest land army in Fortress Xia. While they possess a decent airforce, their navy is weak due to a Demoness superiority in the waters. |
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| Xosaia | Mar 11 2011, 02:15 AM Post #24 |
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The general trend seems to be "my ____ is the 1st or 2nd best in the world, but my ____ sucks" the problem with this is that, for a lot of countries, cutting back on one branch still wouldn't give them the best navy or the third best air force etc. although i guess it doesn't rly matter since the World War is long over... |
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| Demoness | Mar 11 2011, 04:09 AM Post #25 |
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Empress Lexisa as on task with military development because she at least partially experienced the war. Her daughter Mona didn't really have a chance to do anything and her regent kinda left things on auto-pilot. Jia Li is more interested in developing technology than the military, though there is some subdivision into biological weaponry in the form of viruses that she's unaware about. I wandered off task before even really getting onto it. I agree and we (the mods) are trying to figure out a system to fairly determine this. To clarify my earlier post: If no one is going to ICly challenge Demoness' claimed territorial waters, which is further than internationally recognized, and its "fishing rights", then the army branch likely has the majority of the funds. Since the army air corps is, well, part of the army, I have no honest idea if the funds would be split equally or if one gets more focus. I also have no idea about marines at all. Given that Xia forced a resolution to the war through (rumors of) nuclear development, Lexisa would have poured money into MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) rather than any particular branch. |
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| Drake2 | Mar 11 2011, 05:24 AM Post #26 |
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In one guide on the NS forums, I saw 0.5%-5% of your population as a guideline for military. As for my military, Slostia's armed forces are very well equipped, but generally small in number, especially when it comes to active duty (SSDF) forces, although the previous prime minister did build up the military (partially to compete with Justosia), especially the navy, which patrols both the Hrystran and Cerberus seas. |
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| DeSchaine | Mar 11 2011, 06:53 AM Post #27 |
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Since the World War, Taeunas has developed well all the way around. Couple that with mandatory 2 year service at 17, and the military is well staffed, well funded and popular. The people dont balk at the cost of defense. For our size, we're pretty tough. I still have some figures to work out for the navy and air force, but the standing army is less than 300,000, with a reserve of the same number. Due to training and equipment, I'd rate them a 4. |
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| Raz | Mar 11 2011, 07:14 AM Post #28 |
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In all, my whole military is only comprised of 265,000 member's we are quite small but also quite advanced. I'd say my military is like a 4.25-4.5 |
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| Skye Rocket | Mar 11 2011, 07:56 AM Post #29 |
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We're really going to have to give these numbers a lot more definition before they really mean anything at all. I mean is Israel's army a 5 because it's so well trained and equipped, or is it a 1 because it's tiny compared to say the US or China? There are all kinds of factors that come into play here. For instance Neolantia's military might be a 5 technologically, but given our limited size, population and resources there are going to be other nations that are superior in other ways. It's going to take some thinking over. If you have a huge military for your size that means fewer workers in your civilian economy which means a less productive economy which means less money to equip your military with... and so on. So take it all with a grain of salt for now. We'll get some kind of system worked out eventually. |
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| Greater Laddneia | Mar 11 2011, 07:59 AM Post #30 |
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Laddneia 'stotal armed forces, permanent and reserves, comes to about 20% of the population. Our defence budget is a whopping 25%, and so is our scientific research budget. As of this, there are quite a lot of poor people suffering from lack of welfare in our nation, but we have some pretty impressive, very modern armed forces. |
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