Ranshabar
05-08-2005, 22:12
Actually seems to me that in this game most people seem to be minded toward keeping a standing, professional army. Instead I personally think that it's more proper for a socialist or communist country to keep a limited number of highly skilled trainers, enhance the know-how in guerrilla warfare techniques and require a combat training for all the population, for this would make any citizen a potential partisan, this even more if training was tied to the place one lives or if adjustments were made in the country to support a long and bloody partisan war which turn one's country into a bloody marsh for the invaders.
On the other hand, which is a plus in my opinion, would be harder for a country to make up a huge invasion army and so any imperialistic idea would be vanished by the sheer impossibility of such a thing. This however would allow for independent warfare done in an "asimmetric way" by volounteers which could support and train the local fighting forces and even fight side-by-side with them, but this would be a bit different from which would be done by an invading standing army...
So this kind of military choice would be great for defence, not too great for offence...at least if we don't consider "asimmetric tactics" which would be more similar to work of special forces or intelligence service...
I think that this kind of training could lead to have a huge defensive army if Country is attacked, but smaller support teams for allied countries than a standing army...may be that training would be worse than that of a special forces operative which does just that, but if it was costantly kept it'd lead to
an army which is better than standard soldier, worse than special forces operative and definitely more numerous than both...I mean...if one trained and employed any citizen, both male and female, from 12-13 to 65-70 years
as part of a defensive army this could lead to 80-90% of population I think...
What do you think of this?
Jashkar
P.S.: Obviosly 80-90% would mean that the country had in storage a lot of hidden supplies to keep fighting while its economy drops due to lack of labor force, but when one is invaded there are still a lot of things which cause work to stop...and also, since guerrilla warfare is used, the use of people as troops could cycle...even to keep the facade of "normality" for the invader to have it go insane with terror...
On the other hand, which is a plus in my opinion, would be harder for a country to make up a huge invasion army and so any imperialistic idea would be vanished by the sheer impossibility of such a thing. This however would allow for independent warfare done in an "asimmetric way" by volounteers which could support and train the local fighting forces and even fight side-by-side with them, but this would be a bit different from which would be done by an invading standing army...
So this kind of military choice would be great for defence, not too great for offence...at least if we don't consider "asimmetric tactics" which would be more similar to work of special forces or intelligence service...
I think that this kind of training could lead to have a huge defensive army if Country is attacked, but smaller support teams for allied countries than a standing army...may be that training would be worse than that of a special forces operative which does just that, but if it was costantly kept it'd lead to
an army which is better than standard soldier, worse than special forces operative and definitely more numerous than both...I mean...if one trained and employed any citizen, both male and female, from 12-13 to 65-70 years
as part of a defensive army this could lead to 80-90% of population I think...
What do you think of this?
Jashkar
P.S.: Obviosly 80-90% would mean that the country had in storage a lot of hidden supplies to keep fighting while its economy drops due to lack of labor force, but when one is invaded there are still a lot of things which cause work to stop...and also, since guerrilla warfare is used, the use of people as troops could cycle...even to keep the facade of "normality" for the invader to have it go insane with terror...