Re: Homework assignment (UNSC)

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I think the order of creation for the USNC has to be reversed.
 
First the UN has to be given some territory to administer, maybe it's
initially orbital territories, then it can create it's own revenue base
and population then it can develop it's own military and technologies.
 
If the UN has to rely on funding from member nations and is controlled
by a security council that is composed of the big 5 powers and needs a
united vote to initiate a military action then you would get the
ineffective talk fest you have at the moment.
 
Besides what power is going to place military techn ology in the hands
of the UN that is better than it's own?
 
UNSC technology is substantially different from that used by other
factions so it must have come from their own research facilities rather
than national armaments plants of other nations.
 
I imagine the legal definition of space would get rather murky, a bit
like the open oceans on Earth. Someone has to administer the open space
regions and ensure the wealth can be exploited.
 
I don't think that 200 years is enough to get any significant fraction
of populationsonto other planets. Shipping 1 million people to create a
small colony would take a lot of resources, even stacking them in
suspende animation, simply shuttling them into orbit would be a huge
effort.. A space shuttle that could take 100 cold sleep passengers would
be a big space plane and would take a lot of fuel.
 
At the other end you can't simply decant tens of thousands of urban poor
looking for a better lifeTM into an alien wilderness and have it be
anything other than a death sentance. They would need urban places to
live and they would take a lot of resources to develop.
 
If it's unlikely given the current dynamic that Russia and China would
form some kind of close alliance what sort of circumstances could make
that happen? The current GZG timeline has china invading all sorts of
asian coun tries. In today's climate why would they do this? Looking at
what they want access to land, raw materials and food for their
population (like Britain 300 year ago) invading the asian coutries that
are poorer than China, don't export food and are densly populated
doesn't make sense. China would invest it's military, politial and
economic might to secure the things it needs. So resources from African
and Pacific nations, oil from the spratly islands and other pacific
islands and food from Pacrim countries like Australia and New Zealand.
 
The one thing that both Russia and China would want is to humble America
and prove it's not the militarfy superpower it once was. The chinese
very much want to be reunited with Taiwan, but the US stands in their
way (and lack of a decent navy). Buying or leasing a naval fleet from
Russia with Russian advisors on board and using it to reunify with
Taiwan would be a nightmare scenario for the US. Shoot and draw the
Russians into the fight, don't shoot and be humbled in the eyes of thw
world.
 
Who knows an EMP burst over US as in Dark Angel would be very bad for
the US economy (and everyone else) and would instantly reduce the US to
a second string nation.