Alternate British Armed Forces stuff...

[natehale1971]

That's pretty much what i'm talking about... yes you'd move troops from being artillery, or electonic warfare, or what ever... and have them move over to a Home Guard like set up where they would focus the bulk of their time and efforts on rebuilding the country and community.

The 'organization' that the military would be providing would be more along the lines of, "We need to build <insert item here> at <insert location here>, and you and your Home Guard Platoon/Company/Battalion is assigned to make sure that it happens."

Originally Posted by James Langham

Being realistic, can the UK afford all of the troops? Certain units are not going to be necessary - electronic warfare, much of the artillery, air defence and heavy artillery for example. Also many service personnel are going to be unfit for service (blinded, missing limbs, etc) - these can be demobilized into jobs they are capable of. Some servicemen/women can also be converted into civil servants.

How many troops do you really need? Until you reach Scotland (and possibly Wales) you are not going to meet significant conventional forces. A better model might be part time soldiers protecting their local area behind your borders with rapid response troops (similar to the late Roman Empire). I would also guess that non-violent methods would be the preferred option for reunification (e.g. trade, bribery (e.g. well if you join us we will need an MP until we can sort elections...), better standards of living). Very much the Roman or ink blot methods of gaining control.

Whilst at the start of the war troops would be very tied to locations, after four years of war this will be FAR less important when assigning troops (compare 1917 and 1944).

It helps that I partially envisage a Roman type demobilization - here's your land now go farm and protect it...