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Old 01-11-2019, 04:49 AM   #43
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Default Re: Comment my megacorporation

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Originally Posted by Alonsua View Post
If the NATO budget really is 2 billion dollars, yes it could. Whats its budget? Is it 1 trillion dollars?

According to Mass Combat each 1$ invested by the corporation in defense would contest $4 invested by the NATO countries. Maximum military budget would be 100.8 billion dollars (before the merger, each company would be worth about 200 billion dollars and able to contribute 25.2 billion dollars to the shared effort), for which NATO would require 403.2 billion dollars for a 50% probability of success.
You've got to think about the history of your comic-book reality megacorporation. You're not considering whether it could win a war against the world today, with infinite time to transform money into trained soldiers and military equipment*, but rather, back when it was just an ordinary company that decided it wanted to become a nation-state in a state of war with NATO.

*Starting with an organisation that has no military tradition, no experienced officers and trainers and no infrastructure to make war, you'd need several years and access to a wide recruiting pool of people who don't consider you an enemy of their state just to be able to transform from a commercial corporation to effective military. As your headquarters and any executives that could be located would probably be destroyed or dead in the first few hours of a shooting war with NATO, ideally, you should probably still avoid that war.
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