Re: [FT and (!!) SG & DS] Population and military

>I think 1% of the population would be the upper limit for the size of
the
>military in peace time. Perhaps 0.1% to 0.3% would be a good limit for
peace
>time.
>    Of that total, perhaps they are evenly divided between space navy,
blue
>water navy, ground forces and air forces.
>
Rather depends on:
1. what you define as "military"--reservists? Russian style reservists?
2. where you are--a balkanized planet will have a lot more footsloggers
than, say, the Alarishi Empire, which has exactly one "brigade" plus
lots of
marines.

I am reasonably sure Jim Dunnigan's book How to Make War has national
armies
listed with total manpower, and it should be a relatively simple task
(tedious, but simple) to compare these with total populations,