"Kalashnikov Tribal Multi-Battalion rules, Logistics" Topic

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23 Feb 2026 3:49 p.m. PST

… Space transport, The flow of supplies

"The first question might be, ‘How big a force are we wanting to supply?' Well according to James F. Dunnigan ‘How to Make War' (the 1982 edition) there were 1098 Divisions on Earth at the time. So it gives us the size of defence force a well populated world could accumulate. Now of these thousand plus divisions, some were obviously not very good. So it might be that a centralised planetary government might manage with five hundred or so.

If we assume our attacker wants to capture the world in reasonable working order (so not destroying it with asteroid strikes or similar) then the attacker is going to have to ship in a stronger force, but let's assume they also go for five hundred divisions. Obviously there will be air support for both sides and the defender may even have water based naval elements. But let us stick with 500 divisions…"

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