Shang - Neither I nor Obie suggested using using subs to move troops & equipment. Obie was complaining that surface transport was more important than subs. I queried whether hiring air transport (given the capacity of military air transport these days) would not be more cost effective in the long run than buying troopships.

Obie - I'm still puzzled. Peacekeeping troops don't normally take in ultra-heavy equipment i.e. MBT's & heavy artillery. Anything short of an MBT certainly fits inside the likes of a Lockheed Galaxy, & surely the US would jump at the PR of transporting peace keeping troops, alongside the more muted PR of not ripping off their 'brothers', the Canucks, the way a commercial carrier (sea or otherwise) would...

I've got no figures, mind, I'm just going on gut instinct here. Either why, my sympathies still lie with the unfortunate Lt Saunders! :(