Re: The economics of interstellar invasions

Just to reiterate the end of Bob's point, A close examination of combat
in
the official GZG universe will see some very large scale combat
operations
of up to Corps and higher being conducted throughout the period. (Tom
and I
went round this in private a few months back prior to GZG ECC3.) While I
admittedly don't have any of the info with me at work. It wouldn't be
too
hard for any of you to pick up the timeline out of the DS2 manual and
you
will see very large actions taking place. SO juts like nowadays where
small
(bn-Bde deployemnst are teh norm, teh occasioanl all out war sytill
crops
up and has to be dealt with. In fact a prudent large-class military
plans
for those worse case scenarios (logisticaly) and works down from there
rather than betting that they'll never have to deal with anything but
brush
fire stuff.

Los

At 08:28 PM 5/6/00 +0100, you wrote:
>On Fri, 5 May 2000, Robert W. Hofrichter wrote:
>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
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