Re: Shifting Political alliances

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 04:32:40 -0500 (EST) <hal@buffnet.net> writes:
>Hello Folks,
>  I know this is going to be somewhat "touchy", but after reading a
>  British paper's editorial regarding Malta's recent vote to join the 
>EU,
>  I have to wonder at the following scenario:
>

Yeah, unintentioanl insults (or less than PC/diplomatic comments make
this kind of near-future scebnario a potentioanl fire starter...

>FLASH:  In a nation wide referendum, 

Well, to defuse this, try taking less likely nations then UK and France,
maybe a couplew of minor powers like ocurs ib the GZGF timeline in
Eastern Eutope perhaps?

>
>What if:
>What if EU attempts to take on a Federal Government Status that states
>that no EU member nation may withdraw?  

Well, is this assumed to be spelled out or a case of same words,
different meaningd (Like 1860'S USA?)

What would the forces be like,
>say, 20 years from now?  What if the United States becomes an 
>isolationist
>nation once again telling the rest of the world to go to hell (and 
>thus is
>not a factor in such conflicts in the future).  What would such a war 
>look
>like?
>

Why would USA have to be 1)involved or 2) Isolationist?  I'd just leave
this out in the scenario or have USA tied up in a different war (Say,
just for fantawsy with the North Koreans/PRC (Sorry, ESU) perhaps.)

>Could Dirtside handle the game I wonder?  

Well I expect so but there are no official DS 2 Campaign rules if that
is
what you are looking at.

Would anyone be interested 
>in
>running such a game?  If you are looking for ways and means to 
>determine
>how things might go - assume that the EU intends to cut down the size 
>of
>militaries such that military spending is only half of what they 
>currently
>are today.  Use the CIA website to estimate the GNP of "belligerent
>nations" to try and estimate the actual budgets that might be in use 
>for
>the game...
>
>	     Hal
>

Hal, I think it would be a case of  "Go with what you have" war.

I expect current strengths reduced by "X"% would suffice.

Gracias,
Glenn

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