Post

The Bermudan Pentagram wrote:

I will note that I understand where you're coming from, insofar as you're saying that since adults are physically more adept than children, your fighting forces will be superior; they can march longer, carry more, and generally physically outclass child soldiers.
You are, however, neglecting the fact that this is an era of force multipliers; how hard and fast you can swing a sword no longer correlates to the amount of damage you can do to an opposing force. Smaller operatives are actually a boon, since space within jets, tanks, and other vehicles can be restricted to bare minimums, lowering the profile and thus the odds of being hit, and allowing for such things as increased sloping on tank chassis, which does much more to promote survivability than simply adding more armor plating. Moreover, they are more able to maintain their equipment, since they can reach smaller areas.
Infantry are no longer the primary tools of waging war; they are the tools by which you hold ground. Materiel, in the form of tanks, IFVs, fighters, bombers, artillery, missiles, and, if necessary, WMDs, are the tools by which you break an opposing force.
Moreover, it's not like we throw these people away once they become adults. The end goal is adult soldiers; child soldiers are simply the larval stage before your final product, except for the fact that, having been trained since birth, they're not merely a drain on resources, but are combat-effective as well.

In addition, The Bermudan Pentagram remains avowedly neutral regarding any alliances of mutual defense in the region.
We will happily take your money and sell our weapons, technology, and tours of our lovely nation, but we will not be drawn into either FLOAT nor ADDO.
Moreover, we defer to the regional leadership represented by the various stripes of Telcontars in order to mediate any differences between said blocs.