Yeah that is something about modern war which people don't get - Blitzkrieg is downright sluggish in comparison. Manufacturing doesn't matter. Training time doe

Yeah that is something about modern war which people don't get - Blitzkrieg is downright sluggish in comparison. Manufacturing doesn't matter. Training time doesn't matter as the war is already decided by then. As tempting as non-standing armies are conceptually for being "non-corrupting" (in the when you have a hammer lots of things look like nails sense) too late even with a draft. At the same time the occupation is still a long slog and there are nuclear deterrants and occasional non-nuclear ones like North Korea's mass of concealed artillery aimed at Seoul. Chances are that if current manufacturing capabilities instead of stockpiles matter both sides should probably truce because both will lose. But if they both had sense they wouldn't be at war.