potpourri

1) Debacle: see Dieppe. see Stalingrad. see 
most of WW1. 

2) John the Inflammatory (in a comment which 
was unlikely to provoke the usual excitement) 
said "I'd mount them all in Wiesels." Sorry, but I 
immediately thought of "a plan so fiendishly 
cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a.... 
Weasel!"[1]

3) Regarding shipping things around in the 
GZGverse. Take a look at the real world people. 
Real economies are huge. Look at the relative 
total tonnage of merchant shipping to military 
today. Then look at the size of the GZGverse 
fleets (a la Indy, but its a good estimate)... 
many many many (care to throw out some 
mass totals Indy?) mass worth of ships. Figure 
civilian shipping will be many times this rated 
value. It must in order to keep the economy 
functioning. Ergo shipping large heavy weight 
items between known endpoints isn't going to 
be terribly expensive.... if it was, not so much 
would have happened and been built in 180 
yrs. 

I agree military force sizes will be moderate for 
mobile forces, but this stems more from 
procurement costs and ongoing personel and 
upkeep costs than from shipping related issues. 

Tomb.

[1] John, if you don't know the reference,  
you're going to buy _ME_ a beverage of my 
choice at our first meeting. :)

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Thomas Barclay
Instructor, CST 6304 (TCP/IP programming for the Internet)
kaladorn@fox.nstn.ca 
http://fox.nstn.ca/~kaladorn/CST6304
http://stargrunt.ca/tb/CST6304
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