NationStates Jolt Archive

Today, the President of Western Might signed a orders for the Wm military to orginize of a training exresize. Most of the Units being called up are the MI Divisions, some GDF speacial forces air units, and Armer and Artillery Battalions. Along with M.A.S.H. units and support Divisions. All told, over 8.7 Million men and women are to be called up over the next 3 weeks.

EDIT) increased time in which time troops would be mobilized and lessened troops numbers do too most MI Corps already were on high alert.

Wouldn't mobilizing 11 million soldiers be a bit... resource consuming?

In our suggestion, we'd suggest you mobilize at most 200,000 soldiers.

Foreign Affairs Ministry

We have certain uneasy feelings of the massive mobilization of WM military units. We shall be watching.

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The Free Republic of New Genoa

40 million forces protecting AoE2 Region are alert of this situation...

All EOE reserves are already mobilized in light of burgeoning crises in the East Asian and Southwest Pacific Theaters, and His Omniferocity has also called on FReDA to mobilize to protect Forlorn Hope against any threat. This is not specifically in response to Western Might's mobilization, and is strictly a defensive measure.

Eternal Arch-Villain Psychopompos
Minister for Pre-Subjugation External Affairs

The 1st through 5th Reinforced Shock Armies are being prepared to respond to any threat from Western Might. The First Space Fleet is also prepared to engage the enemies in the deadly cold of space.

For a nation with 11.6 trillion dollar annual military buget 11 million is now sweat. Besides, about half of the MI troops are already space based. Those units number about 2.4 million.

[tags, shaking her head]

The Fleet watches this situation, but we are not worried.

The Fleet watches this situation, but we are not worried.

[Encrypted Communication{tIN}] Amusing rather than worrisome, no?

The Fleet watches this situation, but we are not worried.

[Encrypted Communication{tIN}] Amusing rather than worrisome, no?

[Encrypted Communication{Angelus}]Indeed.

I remind you all that these men are being mobilized for a mass wargame to test the readyness of our defences. If I was readying all my men for war don't you think I would mobilize a tad more than 11 million?

ooc:

Yes, but I would also think that they would be adequately trained in how to spell at least semi-decently...

ooc: well pardon my bad spelling.

OOC: First of all, the sheer logistics of mobilizing that many men would be almost impossible, and certainly impossible without a large, long-scale heavy buildup. Even then it would take a gigantic fleet of transports (etc) stretching from horizon to horizon.

Secondly, you only have 11 trillion dollar military budget if you spend 21% of your GDP. North Korea can do this because it has a command economy. Do you?

Thirdly, even with an 11 trillion dollar budget, you have what, 1100 divisions here? At the drop of a hat! At the average rate of 1.7 billion operating cost per US-style division, thats still 1.8 trillion spent on operating. Just the army. With the amount of ships and fuel involved, I'm pretty sure you can't do this.

For any basic military, the budget is divided first between all the different branches (not just army/ground/naval/space forces, but logistic centres, R&D, special forces, civilian contractors [which you'd need a LOT of for this type of thing], communications networks, strategic forces, etc)-- and THEN between operating, procurement, maintanenance and payment. In real militaries, the army and other traditional forces make up roughly 40% of the military budget combined. So lets assume you divided it equally between naval, ground, air and space forces. 40 percent of 11 trillion equals 4.4 trillion, divide between branches 1.1 trillion. And thats TOTAL, meaning you could only use to operate, say, your ground forces, using at most a third of that. About $360 billion, or 211 divisions.

That's still 2 million men. (Assuming you have a command economy and spend almost half your budget on defense...). 2 million men and they wouldn't all be combatants.

Should be enough for a training excercise :wink:

Santa Barbara Not all the men being mobilized are going into space, which will cut down on the cost. Mostly only medical staff to simulate ow effective those units are in treating wounded.And some light artillery and light Armer Corps to test their dropships effectiveness. For the ground units, most soldiers live close to or on their bases, cutting down mobilization time and these troops will not be leaving the counrty. The MI troops are mostly not a ground based force anyway. They spend most of their active duty in space and do orbital landings. Think starship troopers.
Also, that number includes the SDF personal maning the warships and transports. Mobilizing for them is moving the darn ship.
Only reason I am spending 22% GDP on defence is that I'm updating my SDF Fleet and will run on so for several years(about 3 RL days) After that I will Rp my norm of about 11%of my GPD going to defence.
As for my number of Divisions, it's more like 550 with only about 42% of the personal in a division is a combatant in some form or another.

The Free Market States of Pilot
Statement to Western Might

< The President got drunk last night, and decided to telegram this diplomatic message in Pirate-talk. >

While Pilot views you as a peaceful nation, we will have our diplomatic channels open should any need arise from aAhoy!rise attack - because in this day and age, you'd be lucky if frogs don't fall from t'sky, all with faces that look remarkably similart'Jerry Sprin'er, but have two noses and t'voice replicates thato'Gilbert Godfrey. I'm just say... it wouldn't surprise me.

WTF :roll: