Re: [eia] rewriting 12.4

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:37 AM 4/28/2003 -0400, you wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Uckelman" <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [eia] rewriting 12.4
>
>
> > Thus spake "J.J. Young":
> > > If this was how we would end up handling an end to the Russian war right
> > > now, then could the British forces move to St.P for transport home, and
> > > would this require Russian permission, or would it be part of the
> "limited
> > > access" automatically provided ?
> > >
> > > -JJY
> >
The biggest restraint on this case is that unlike voluntary access where a 
return access cannot be forbidden, this access would not give you the right 
for your corps to return.  This could result in a situation where at the 
end of the war in Russia, France might have access to no neighboring nation 
and its army would demobilize after 6 months since it could not leave 
Russian territory.  If the war ended with France getting control of land, 
it'd be fine, but sending those troops out would potentially be a one way 
trip that could be very expensive.

So, yes, you could do something like that, but as your supply lines would 
vanish when your access to Prussia did and then you might have literally no 
way to get supplies or reinforcements in.  After the war, you might have no 
way to get your army back and would lose the entire thing.  Those risks 
seem to be sufficient constraints to minimize this problem.

Mike



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