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Originally Posted by robj3
Thanks for the interesting posts, dragoon500ly.
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The military seems very large, with over 100,000 troops in the land force alone.
This is getting towards the size of the Israeli Defense Force (187,000 active,
over 500,000 reserves).
Using Israel as an analog, this implies a total population of about 7-8 million.
Assuming lower levels of defense spending, the population base needs to be commensurately bigger.
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I based the Social Security Forces on the IDF for a reason. Only about a third of the SSF-L is active at any time. the remaining two thirds are the reserves who are called up when needed. And like a general call-up of the IDF, calling out the reserves in the SSF-L results in MAJOR economic problems. There are just enough active forces to maintain the KFS borders and carry out an expedition or two, in this case, the extensive call up of reserves for the fighting on the Memphis front.
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I know you stated at the beginning that your version of the KFS follows the Appalachians into New England - quite a bit bigger than Tim McF's 'official' version in 'Bullets and Bluegrass'.
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The 'official KFS' in my campaign covers almost all of KY-TN with offshoots into AL, MS, MO, IA, IL, OH and WV. Their major hoals are to expand into the Virginia (eventually the Shenadoah Valley farmland) and into Missouri (the goal of controlling trade on the Mississippi River).
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The weakness of an authoritarian society is that one day, the populace will no longer consent to be ruled.
The goal of the Morrow Project is to hasten this process, and there are
ways to do it:
'From Dictatorship to Democracy' by Gene Sharp.
http://http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations98ce.html
There are a number of potential fault lines to exploit with the corrupt apartheid oligarchy you have described.
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Just gives a Project Team more chances to be...creative when taking on the KFS!