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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Somehow, I get the impression that waging a war from the UFP point of view is like waging a war in "Civilization" with "Democracy" as your form of government. You can build a pretty impressive fleet, more easily than the competition, and based on more advanced technology than the competition. But try and *field* that fleet, and you get into huge social and economic problems. Starfleet probably has plenty of ships, even after the war attrition. Most of those ships are probably still far superior to most of the competition - after all, we're talking about a whole quadrant (or two) here, not a small inbred cluster of nations whose technologies are closely matched because of a centuries-old escalation process. A century-old Miranda can still clean the chronometers of the biggest and baddest Bugomite warships, a half-centenarian Excelsior can still keep the Tentaclians at bay, and so forth. But can Starfleet afford to maintain the crews for these vessels? Mothballing a ship in space is trivially simple - just abandon it there, and pick it up a million years later, as good as new. But crews can't be mothballed. Would Starfleet be capable of training in peacetime the huge reserves needed? Would these hordes of Feds be interested in serving in Starfleet outside the time of war? I think Starfleet would be in a great hurry to demobilize after the war, lest the whole UFP society collapse due to the neglect of its civilian aspects. Ships could be repaired or replaced as soon as the economy went back to the prewar efficiency, but they would by definition be crewless, or else there wouldn't be an economy to get them built. In the RW environment, wars boost the economies of the nations that supply the weapons. But in the UFP-Dominion conflict, there would be no separate nation that supplies the weapons for the UFP side while taking no casualties back home. The Feds would be buying from themselves. The industries created to support the war effort would have nobody to sell to after the war, and would probably just weaken the economy. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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