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> You can hypothetically keep 120 military ships en route to the colony at all times so that a forceful response is always at most one month away. One problem
by tablespoon 4y ago
> You can hypothetically keep 120 military ships en route to the colony at all times so that a forceful response is always at most one month away.
One problem with that idea is that either the king's forces would be spread very thin or they would be massively (and expensively) oversized.
- speed_spread 4y agoJust make most of your economy based on mass manufacturing weapons and vehicles, problem solved
- tablespoon 4y ago>> One problem with that idea is that either the king's forces would be spread very thin or they would be massively (and expensively) oversized. > Just make most of your economy based on mass manufacturing weapons and vehicles, problem solved That feels like "solution" that you spent little more time thinking through than it took you to write it. Those kind of things both unconvincing and have a very high probability of being wrong. I mean, you don't even mention trade-offs and there are obvious historical parallels that call your solution into question. Isn't one of the (many) reasons the Soviet Union collapsed is that is allocated too much of its economic capacity to military expenditures?