how much stuff do you need to stockpile before conflict?
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>>64384584Enough that your economy has the time to shift to war mode
>>64384603it seems with land war it is possible to crank out some vehicles and planes/drones "quickly" but when it comes to naval war building ships and shipyards takes more time maybe?
>>64384584It's never enough. If you stockpile 100 billion shells, you realize on the first day of the war, that you actually needed 200 billion shells.War eats things, people and human decency, like you wouldn't believe. In WW2 the US had to ration tires because getting the raw materials for them im 41/42 was a pain in the ass due to uboats. Winning the peace ia even harder when everyone wants to be vindictive cunts after signing an armistice.Once the war drew to an end, even the absurd high production and freely available resources of the US were drained. Without the Marshal Plan, to basically bribe the euro to use US Dollars to buy US shit for reconstruction meant the now demobilized soldiers had a job and an income.If that hadn't happened, the US would have been fucked like the Ussr after the war.
>>64384584Usually enough to arm 40% of your population.
>>64384612Depends on tech, modern ships need expertise rather than pure time. You can go the gook route of jamming as many missiles as humanly possible on a ship(Honestly the Russians aren't wrong when they put essentially casemate missilies on their ships since the battle ranges are long enough that the angles probably won't make a difference)
>>64384651that requires an insane amount of political/morale "stockpiling" for that to matter
Stockpile conscripts for the meatwav assaults.
>>64384584What an utterly retarded question, and you already know the answer is that it depends on what kind of conflict you are gonna be in.
>>64384612no, you need to mobilize a war economy and centralize production BEFORE you declare war, ideally. the Germans were fucked in WWII because they didn't enact rationing or engage a wartime economy until late 42/43 by which point they were never able to recoup materiel losses made in Barbarossa or the Blitz to the end of the war. also important to institute universal male conscription before conflict breaks not after so that you've got a few million spare bodies who've already been through basic training when your divisions start suffering mass casualties
>>64384979gotta keep it general to get some good discussions on this board only experienced OPs will understand t. OP>>64384980arguably if you have to preemptively do all that drastic stuff youre already biting off more than you can chew and sending bad signals to the population
>>64384835>that requires an insane amount of political/morale "stockpiling" for that to matterThen be nice to your people and stockpile their good will.
>>6438504140% is beyond "carrot" and into "stick" territory
>>64384980>Whereas Germany in 1939 was already planning to devote 23 per cent of its national income to the Wehrmacht, the figure for France was 17 per cent, 12 per cent for Britain and only 2 per cent for the United States. The last two figures were crucial. Given the fact that the British and German economies were relatively evenly matched, a Franco-British alliance always enjoyed a significant advantage in a European arms race.>A cold-eyed examination of the statistics suggests that the increases achieved after February 1942 were far less exceptional than is commonly believed. The sudden upsurge in German armaments production was far from miraculous. It was due to perfectly natural causes: reorganization and rationalization efforts begun long before Speer acceded to power; the ruthless mobilization of factors of production; the coming on stream of investments made earlier in the war; and a deliberate sacrifice of quality for an immediate increase in quantity.The Wages of Destruction discusses this, whatever your take production output takes some time to increase and they already had heavy spending before the war.
>how much stuff do you need to stockpile before conflict?A lot
>>64384584Like 3 maybe 4
>>64385315>40% is beyond "carrot" and into "stick" territoryskill issue40% approval from population is child's play for democracies, we ensure that the government has a minimum of about 48% at all times.In war, approval generally soars and that 40% becomes very strong.Just don't go to war for bad reasons, or be very sure you've manufactured very good reasons.Authoritarians always focus on an external enemy (Jews/USA/freedom AKA globohomo typically but commies and gays too) but it only gets strong approval from those inside your minority ruling class and from schizos and buck-broken slaves outside it. Everyone else sees right through it and only pays lip service to the propaganda at best.Most of your population just want to escape and join your enemy since you're so afraid of them and they hate you more.
>>64384584Take the projections of munitions usage for one year that your analysts provide you then quintuple it.
>>64385475>>64384980Why do people always talk about WW1 and WW2 as if they weren't colossal fuckups of planning? You can't plan for a long protracted war because you're not meant to get into one. A successful plan for a war looks something like the Franco-Prussian War, which was the Gulf War 1 of it's day in terms of impact.
>>64387836>Why do people always talk about WW1 and WW2 as if they weren't colossal fuckups of planning?One post said it was a fuck up and the other commented on the details of the first. >You can't plan for a long protracted war because you're not meant to get into one.That doesn't preclude it from being a possibility. Also prewar spending was mentioned in both.
>>64384584Modern countries need 800,000,000,000,000 KwH of stored battery power to stop countries collapsing after successful power grid attacks or else they will proceed into Anarchy within a day. So, not enough.
>>64384584The size of a stockpile doesn't matter. Your ability to replenish it does.
>>64393551> one dogecoin has been deposited to your spacex employee account
