German draft likely to be abolished

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Well you can cut the troops or cut the heavy weapons (armor and jets). If you cut both you lose capabilities since the heavy weapons can do the work of many foot soldiers and vice versa.

If you are running a big conscript army then don't invest in all those fancy tanks and planes, your numbers make up for it.

Are we the Chinese? Western regimes cannot afford to have high losses, else the voters get uneasy very quickly. On the other hand, supoerior technology can compensate for inferior numbers only to some degree, and not beyond. This also works the other way around, if you have too few units, sooner or later a numercially superior and determined enemy can "flood" there area and overwhelm them. you need good technology - and suffiocient numbers. Numbers must be such that even taking losses do not endanger the operational integrity of the army . And this is where my greatest concern is.

the other is the lack of logistical capacity of the Germans. They want to act internationally, but one must see it realistic: in principle the Germans lack the capability to shift robust combat forces around the globe.

If you are running a small professional standing army then stick all those troops in some kind of technological terror, since you can't afford to lose any.

Yes, right that: you cannot afford to lose any.

Now consider how realistic that is. If you need help to beef up your fantasy, play one or two matches of SBP. If being trained well and having the right warhead, every dwarf with a Panzerfaust-style of weapon can take out a Leopard-2A6.