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You seriously didn't get what I said at the bottom, did you? Historically, no one is self-sufficient, especially at the lowest levels like towns and villages. They need resources from elsewhere to sustain them, especially in this day and age. You would be actually surprised at what is needed...

That isn't entirely the case, last I've checked. You forget that industry hasn't been a primary money-maker since the 1970s (i.e. when computers took off) and that farming/mining hasn't been a money-maker since the 19th century when the 2nd Industrial Revolution started to get into gear. It has...

My Google-fu is bad but I distinctly remember it with a thread in SB talking about making public transport or hospitals better. I'll try to find it but I can't promise you anything.

The thing is, you'll need that high population density to even have a hope to maintain modern life. Last I've checked, you need a population density on the order of 2k/sq. mile minimum to keep everything we need for a modern civilization functioning. Due to that having runaway effect, the only...

No, it isn't. That's beyond stupid, because if you try that then you'll have world trade grind to a halt, and that would restart the cycle of war again, but now with nukes. You assume nukes stopped wars. Here's the thing, they didn't. It's (practically in the economic and political sense) free...

This is the biggest heaping of BS I've ever seen, and I've seen some pretty hefty BS in my time... even spouted by me in some cases. The sad reality is that economies of scale are backed by reality to the hilt, and you need those scales to face the new threats. Bigger, is sadly, better when it...

It's not just manning I'm afraid, it's the fact that they're literally running their ships ragged in addition to their crews. They're not designed to be such a high tempo constantly without extensive and deep maintenance and overhauls.

We are overextended, oddly enough. Our ships are not getting the overhauls and deep maintenance they need, largely because of Congress's penny-pinching. We need a lot of ships to actually cover the obligations we're forcing the USN though, and what we have isn't enough. Also, China knows that...