No, what you have described is actually 100% awesome. Now if only we had silencer technology for tanks....

I'll up the precision a little, but stealth is really only for the air force, I think it has to do with how hard they are to hit once in battle. Recon is really only done by the secret service.

Battles are very much a hands-off thing, like a real life leader. You say "go kill those people" and they do as you say.

Good news though...

August 11, 2001

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I managed to ramp the tax rate all the way from 24.5% to 37% while still holding our approval at around 70%...and rising! Our unemployment rate has dropped substantially, so has the corruption surprisingly. The only thing is the inflation rate, which is now in the process of going out of control. I'm afraid to raise interest rates too high to shoulder the blow, but there's really no other way out of it, our economy will have to take the hit.

I would suggest lowering some of the budget sliders from the second post I made, maybe drop health care back a bit, or something. We can't afford to lose much of anything else.

[Update]
Allocated more funds to stealth and precision of our air and naval forces, estimated time until everything levels up: 117-217 days.

Don't get me wrong, a stealth tank would be awesome, but you would need to figure out a way to keep it silenced, otherwise the stealth wouldn't work

See if we can't open a market with China. I hear that they like buying western goods now that they are starting to have money and such. Also it will make it easier for our agents to get contacts incase we need to move weapons to help destabilize regions.

Negotiations with China were tense, but I managed to hammer out an economic partnership with them, giving us both bonuses to our resource development. I then tried to push a little further for a common market that would let us fill each other's resource needs before resuming normal everyday trade, but that was unsuccessful.

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Here are all of the other possible treaties, just to have them on record.

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And our friends the Belgians just got waffled...harhar...

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The earthquake could work in your favour (can I please join :() by sending aid then suddenlt cutting the off.

Eh, I'll take that for now. At least we got our foot in the door.

EDIT: Next on the list is seeing if we can get a Cultural Exchange Program with China and an Economic partnership with America. If we can become the middle man between China and America's trade then we'll steadily become all kinds of important.

Sounds good to me.

Good lord, I have to get me this game. Seems rather awesome. Aaaanyway...

On the military sector, have you considered an alliance with Finland and Sweden and then a strike against poland? It wouldn't be too capable to resistance, and it should be quite easy to foster dislike against it. It'd place you in a position where you could easily expand south and then strike either against the middle east or central europe. (This shall be known as operation Typewriter).

As for financing this shizz...

I'd expand my intelligence and research sectors, while implementing long-term supply-side policies. That is to say, invest much of the government's budget into further infrastructure improvements. The downsides of higher taxation will be offset by the multiplier effect (every dollar that the government spends will be spent again by the consumer receiving it, generating wealth continuously)...

As for your inflation? If anything it should be going down, since you're taxing the country, resulting in less income and thus in less demand. If you wanna raise it again, interest rates are good...
Alternatively you could implement some labor reforms, decrease the amount of workers, possibly by just raising unemployment benefits or lowering the minimum age for retirement. That'll raise your approval ratings again, counteracting any increases in taxation.

Back to grand strategy, once your infrastructure is awesome, your economy is stable, your research is advanced, your alliances are secure and poland's image is wrecked, (Should take a while), then you start building up your military and initiate operation typewriter.

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But that's just my two cents.

Okay, I say we take Belgium by, yeah, sending in aid. And buddy up with Finland and Sweden.

Now, everyone's suggestions regarding training and universities and stuff are good, do that. Also, I want missiles. And a stealth tank. Can I have a stealth tank?