Re: Western OPFOR in Durango Valley
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pdoktar said:
And the problem with professional armies is that in small countries they are too expensive to maintain in large enough numbers to make any difference in a serious large-scale conventional war. Conscript armies in small countries has numbers to make a difference.
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Not sure I understand you correctly. Do you mean that it's more expensive to have a professional army? Just try to imagine germany having a 3 to 5 million people army like back in the 40': I think that giving all those brave men the modern equipement will be very hard even for the so good germanic economy.
For small countrys too, I would see that this way: modern equipement is so expensive that they have to maintain bigger armies, because they cannot aford a small one with last f-22, M1A2 and so on... Better to have 30 f-16 with semi-pro pilot than one f-22 with a crack...
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