RE: If you're really a spektic then explain this:
January 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2024 at 8:34 pm by Anomalocaris.)
based on historic precedence, a modern nation with largely normal population age distribution, fully mobilized for war, can put roughly one in 8 people into uniform to fight. We saw that with germany, USSR, the US, etc during WWI and WWII.
So india could potentially put 200 million into uniform as well based on its population of 1.4 billion.
however china has a rather unfortunate population age distribution for the purpose of mass mobilization because 40 years of rigid one child policy deprived china of a about half of the people of mobilization age of 18-45 that she would have had. to make it even worse, it is socially much more disruptive to draft the only child for cannon fodder duty than if there are usually multiple siblings from which to chose a cannon fodder. if there is one thing that will rile up the chinese population to overthrow the ruling communist party it would probably be a government effort to take away all the only childs of all the parents to send them into the meat grinder.
so china is likely incapable of mobilizing 200 million for military service even if there is overwhelming incentive for it to do so.
So india could potentially put 200 million into uniform as well based on its population of 1.4 billion.
however china has a rather unfortunate population age distribution for the purpose of mass mobilization because 40 years of rigid one child policy deprived china of a about half of the people of mobilization age of 18-45 that she would have had. to make it even worse, it is socially much more disruptive to draft the only child for cannon fodder duty than if there are usually multiple siblings from which to chose a cannon fodder. if there is one thing that will rile up the chinese population to overthrow the ruling communist party it would probably be a government effort to take away all the only childs of all the parents to send them into the meat grinder.
so china is likely incapable of mobilizing 200 million for military service even if there is overwhelming incentive for it to do so.