Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-39133133-20191015192937/@comment-39805746-20191015201022

Let us assume your army orginally had 3 million. You Mass mobilize. Now it has 4 million. The drafted troops might not all like the shah. Secret police cannot suppress emotions. Now your army is at a real strength of 3.7 million. You conquer Oman and some lands. However they have different religions and sects, and since this is the Middle East, they mutiny, your army strength is at 3.9 million. Now put in into context such as rations, the presence of extremists and other things and the toll all of this "Great Leap Forward" and an angry populace that just had a lot of there luxuries taken away and you have a recipe for disaster.