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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ahkileez: [QB] I should say the fact that not even their enemies appear to fear the Fed, combined with what Rua'fo said in Insurrection, they aren't nearly as tough as we've come to assume by being watchers of their propaganda films. :) Their sheer mass seems to be a big factor, but they have enemies that are their equals technologically. I'll always argue that the Fed has an army because it cannot be otherwise. 'Militia' have their place in the form of the local defense forces of the Fed's constituent elements, but the whole is not always stronger than the sum of its parts. A multitudinous force will often fight less effectively than a single integrated force will. Not to mention they'd present a logistical nightmare. Armies are used to defend. But they are also used to police, to patrol and to extend power. They're used for humanitarian purposes, for training, to provide an avenue for young men and women (and any other genders) to learn and to serve their people. There's also the fact that if you do need to fight a ground war somewhere, it's highly unlikely that a species who has a force built strictly as a local militia kind of entity will have the ability to transport their units to where they need to go - which means you have to do it and have a huge reserve fleet of troop transports sitting around for no explicable reason. The problem with always using a territorial approach is that you are unprepared for anything but a defensive strategy, and everybody knows that if you can avoid it, you should never try to fight a war on your own land because you'll often end up being the one who takes the biggest losses. Armies exist for very good reasons. And to try to toss one together out of whatever's lying around the Fed doesn't make one iota of sense. It merely satisfies the Trek fan's expectations of what the tv show has told them: That Starfleet is the beginning and end of the Fed, and the Fed doesn't fight wars on the ground. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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