Why would they be less able?
From the beginning of the occupation in AMF there too few as most were integrated into the RCA as the ICA, so they had to be pretty good to cope, and what discrete textev is there that they were ever replaced?
The fact they remained marines and no Chisholmians etc replaced them implies any rotations were within the marines, who're not known for poor training.
Just because Americans have become accustomed to relatively short tours, don't think 19th century military custom didn't mean spending several years, often a decade or more, on station.
Pre-industrial societies could only spare 1-3% of their population for soldiers, usually the lower rate; so since Corisande had a population of 15 million, 150,000 is just 1%, but keep in mind how few of them had modern weapons, only a few with borrowed civilian rifles, so retraining for most is going to take rather longer than the optimists seem to think.
The EoC's net population was 72 million a few years ago, and Charis's industrialization may now support 2% or around 1.5 million men, perhaps 2.25 million next year, and eventually might reach 6% if the war lasted long enough according to Merlin in MTaT.
But I don't see the war lasting that long [5+ more years] given all the foreshadowing, then there may be training constraints in terms of how many can be trained simultaneously, since the inner circle thought they had more time to expand the army before the SoS, and the 20,000 man training detachments left at Maikelberg could probably train only 250-300,000 at a time and taking a year to do it.
Given the complexity of modern ICA infantry and dragoon tactics, which depends so much of finding and developing junior officers and NCO's, then training them, then integrating them into their units; the idea Corisandans can be properly retrained in a few month's is laughable.
Windshare was authorized 30,000 mounted enforcers, the Corisandans surprised so many were permitted; if they were somewhat modeled on ICA dragoons and their tactics, their tactical training might be less.
But I don't think Windshare likes shovels etc as much as the ICA dragoons.
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saber964 wrote:Okay as I remember it the Corisandian Army has an authorized strength of 35000 troops and a like number of ICMC occupation forces. But there are also the troops that were mustered out of the RCoA at the end of the Charis-Corsidian War. These troops would not take long to retrain and refit IIRC the RCoA was roughly 100-150000 troops. Also at a guess the ICMC has been rotating out its garrison forces trading able bodied troops with less able troops.