A question about military manpower vs population

[AGoetz]

With regards to your numbers for the Honorverse, I don't have the books with me at the moment, but it is actually spelled out in one of them - the limitation isn't in getting the bodies, it's getting the bodies without wiping out the tax payers. No tax payers, no income. No income, no military budget. No military budget, no fleets of superdreadnoughts to go boom.