Logistics, do you use it?
200000000 Soldiers would quickly bankrupt China. They would starve unless a good portion of them farm. We're talking about 1/7 of the Chinese population. If you want to really be generous, maybe 4/7 of the remainder would be able bodied adults. That's 4 non-soldiers for every soldier. Let's give you the benefit of sanity and assume that the 200mil figure is not just combat soldiers but also support personnel.
So lets be generous again and say is a 1 - 3 combat solider to support personnel ratio. Leaving us with 50mil combat soldiers. China's military combat kit costs about $1500. So for initial equipment only, we're talking 75bil (2% GDP or half of their current military budget) for clothes and a rifle with 2 mags worth of bullets. But as we both know, a combat kit and a uniform do not a soldier make. Now you have to feed everyone, house them, train them, be able to deploy them, keep buying new bullets guns and uniforms are they are used, buy comm equipment, buy specialized weapons, etc etc.
Good fucking luck. Even China's current 2mil personnel army is unsustainable for them, let alone 200mil. They are going as broke as we are trying to reach parity with the US's military strength, which I may remind you is mostly because we can fucking deploy our troops and keep up supply lines.
If they were able to conscript 200mil people, they might have a solid week of combat effectiveness before they run out of food and gear. If they're really careful about do training on the cheap. Now how do you move 200mil people to a theater?
Well at this point air supply is out of the question, so you'll have to use ships. Ships are still monstrously expensive, and are big fucking targets. You'd literally be dead in the water.
Why are these Raptards always so clueless when it comes to logistics?
