Re: The economics of interstellar invasions

I'll buy that, except how did all those "local planetary troops" get
there?
Once again, this points to relatively low transportation costs.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Anderson <thomas.anderson@university-college.oxford.ac.uk>
To: <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: The economics of interstellar invasions

> there is a widely (if not *that* widely) accepted model of combat in
the
> Tuffleyverse which doesn't have all that much in the way of large
forces
> being transported - forces in the majority of campaigns consist of
lots of
> local planetary troops with heavy equipment, but not super tech or
> training, and smaller numbers of interstellar troops (marines,
basically),
> with super tech and training, but lacking hordes of tanks. the key
> exceptions come in times of intense interstellar war, when big powers
> start slapping divisions all over the place, and things get rather
messy
> and expensive. of course, this is only a minority view.
>
> tom
>
>