Beth, about that unanswered question - was Re: [Stargrunt-Fullthrust] IC TO&E ideas

Beth, I think this was the question whose answer (replied to
[Stargrunt-Fullthrust] check thread for "...IC TO&E ideas...") you
missed perhaps... I don't have a copy of the answer here at home.

> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 08:31:42 +1000 <beth.fulton@csiro.au> writes:

Gracias,
Glenn - warbeads@juno.com
.
6 mm miniatures rule! Well, anyway in my mind they do!
.

25 cent summation - Indonesia today is very Third World military (One of
the more dangerous ones true... you guys should know, they're your
neighbors... but still not exactly the Third Reich at it's peak or the Warsaw
Pact (on paper) mostly a very (dare I use the word? Yes, it fits) competent
infantry heavy army with adequate tactical mobility, pretensions of an Air
Force, elements of armor forces (internal use limited by a brilliant
diplomatic coup of somebody's,) and adequate (plus) amounts of Artillery (if
not everyone thinks they can apply it in a major war usefully.) They have a
"navy" (undersized, under funded,
under equipped IMO and hobbled in anti-piracy by political competition
with their version of a Coast Guard - even more "lesses" for * that *
force.)

The addition of Singapore and Thailand (or even Vietnam or Burma) will not
offset Laos, Cambodia, (parts of) Burma, etc. in drawing down the average
technical competency of their military. They will need different tech levels
for terrain (lots of diversity in that terrain) but more so for their
technical training of that group of ethnic backwaters much of
SE Asia is become because of political/cultural/nationalistic
short-sidedness as part of the pre-IC history.  The Hmong have a long
way to go before they enter the 20th century for example and a hundred years
under the IC would only be a start - Great guerilla light infantry but
battalions of high tech armored forces raised there?   For every
Singapore there is a host of populations that have major short-falls as
high tech using soldiers material. The very range of economic diversity would
almost require a mixed tech force for the IC (strangely enough the outer
colonies and, less so, the Inner colonies, might move towards a standardized
and higher tech force than old earth because of (one possibility) immigration
(voluntary or not) policies sending the brightest and best of all groups "out"
to the colonies.

I'd love to hear some discussion on what people think the IC would look like.
It is the only force in 25 mm (because of the
Singapore/Malaysia/Brunei connection) that really attracts me for humans
in SG 2. Call it professional fantasy.

Gracias,