Re: Thinking out loud. . .

I think this is clearly the place to start looking if you're going to
start
estimating troops per million population:
http://www.strategypage.com/fyeo/howtomakewar/

Also, the 2300AD group (Bryn Monnery, IIRC) has developed some
rule-of-thumb
guidelines for estimating how many of what TYPE of troop you can afford
per
million pop. I can try to dig them up if you like: quite reasonable.

on 02.9.3 0:22 PM, John Atkinson at johnmatkinson@yahoo.com scribbleth:
> 
> I was playing around with the NRE's population
> figures, based on some conversations I had with Beth.
> Totals about 360 million or so.  With means that I
> could reasonably maintain maybe 3.5 million military
> personnel on active duty without shooting my economy
> in the foot completely.

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