Comments on: The Unspeakable http://www.xenosystems.net/the-unspeakable/ Involvements with reality Thu, 05 Feb 2015 06:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/the-unspeakable/#comment-1083 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:47:17 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=208#comment-1083 I’ve no idea whether this David Swanson piece is reliable, but he puts total Iraqi deaths from the war at 5% of the population. Assuming that’s on the upper bound of estimates (given the source) even adjusting for the proportion of military age males is unlikely to get close to your ‘magic ratio’. On the other hand, 30 years is a long time …

]]> By: Handle http://www.xenosystems.net/the-unspeakable/#comment-1081 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:15:16 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=208#comment-1081 The magic ratio historically is the removal from the fight of 40% of your recruitable and capable military-aged males (basically, the set of individuals marshalable under a Sheriff’s posse comitatus authority.

Modern blood-letting never gets anywhere near that number, there are always plenty more unemployed and angry boys in arab lands, and so a limit of 30 years would be a blessing.

]]> By: campofthesaints http://www.xenosystems.net/the-unspeakable/#comment-1062 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:59:26 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=208#comment-1062 hoho I really enjoyed that read. Very much.

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