Re: [FH] Dollars to Credits

At 07:05 AM 3/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>The two figures you can really juggle are % of your GNP to defense
(note
>>>that the more you put into defense, the less goes into investment,
and
>>>sooner or later you end up like the USSR), and the way the budget
splits
>
>
>Don replied:
>>You may be reading too much into the US example. I realize that most
of the
>>world seems to be heading towards the "small, professional" model of
the US
>>and Britain (and Canada and Oz and anyone else who want's credit :-),
but
>>your method breaks down when trying to plan for a classical
Swiss/Israeli
>>type of military with small cadres and enormous reserve forces.
>
>Put in more GNP and reduce the maintenance cost.

I wasn't objecting so much to the GNP/new equipment cost/maintanence
info
(which, BTW, I found very useful, thanks) but the following para:
  
>So to put it in the simplified form you asked for, 1 million population
>usually results in about 1300 MCr (130 points) of ships and 1 line
battalion
>with support units.

If you go with the Israeli model, 1 Mpop will provide *much* more than
only
one battalion. I'd play with numbers now, but I've got to go to work.
Tonight I'll try to do a little research and post what I come up with.

Don