Re: Campaign Economics--Real Deal

Paul Calvi wrote:
> 
> Nope, had that wrong. Since the Korean war, U.S. defense spending has
been
> fairly flat. The greatest spending (since Korea) was 8.5% GNP during
> Kennedy, otherwise it's been about 5% (as I thought). Defense
comprises
> (approx.) 25% of the current budget (total). Currently, the defense
budget
> is about 260 billion dollars. My previous USSR guess was off as well.
At
> the height of the Cold War, the USSR spent about 14% GNP on defense.
Other
> NATO nations spent about 3-4% GNP during the Cold War (70s-80s) and
> probably a bit less now. During WW2, most nations spent 30-50% GNP on
> defense. Another interesting tidbit is that, as a rule of thumb, 30%
of the
> production cost of a weapon system (ship, plane, etc.) is the
development
> cost.
> 
> At 03:35 PM 5/5/97 PDT, you wrote:
> 
> -----
> Paul J. Calvi Jr.
> tanker@rahul.net
> 
> "Objective, Offense, Mass, Economy of Force, Maneuver, Unity of
Command,
> Security, Surprise, Simplicity"
> 
> 15SEP16

I have a point, please bear with me...

It seams just before the end of the "cold war", there was this russian
general who defected to the U.S.  He told about several things, one of
which was the russian spending.  He said at the END, they were spending
98%GNP on all military projects only.  And a reporter discusing it, at
the time, said: the U.S was spending only 2%GNP....It seems that the
U.S, and Russia was spending about the same amount in actual money.

It seems that all through the cold war, the russians kept increasing
their military spending, because they were preparing to attack the U.S. 
Every time they thought they were ready, something would happen here to
scare the willys out of them, and they would scrap all of their plans,
and start over.  The main reason for the colapse of russia, was their
military spending.  The russian general also said that if President
Carter had stayed in office another term, or someone like him, the
Russians WOULD have attacked.

How close we came....

Anyway...What this shows is that if a player in an empire game desides
to over tax is population, his population will eventully revolt.

Donald Hosford