Has anyone ever considered starting a midget militia? The only reason i thought about this was the costs required to outfit soldiers. You need to spend lots of money to fit troops with kevlar, uniforms, the works.
That cost becomes a fraction of what it was when you employ midgets/dwarfs; less body, less material required = less expensive. You can become incredibly cost-effective and hire a shit ton of midgets and train them in CQC. Who is trained to fight a midget in a knife fight? nobody, that's who.
Trojan horses would also be a nightmare for the enemy. just slip a crate full of mini-murder into the back of a transport truck. They think they're delivering munitions, but instead, midgets--midgets with garrotes, knives and hand grenades.
They would also build impressive rat tunnels, not to mention they would be impossible for a normal-sized person to get into, meaning that flushing them out would be very difficult, ensuring that they would stay dug in for many moons. Since there would be less work involved in maintaining and expanding a midget tunnel, they would be digging under your feet and you wouldn't even know it. Cat got your tongue? Wrong, midget got your achilles tendon because he dug 300 meters to your base camp just to cripple you with a letter opener.
On that note, what firearms should they brandish Jow Forums? they would most likely have to use sidearms seeing as how anything else would be too big for them.
>pros: Smaller cost per infantryman Smaller vehicles (fewer resources needed to build) Basically mole men >cons: Can't carry nearly as much weight Stumpy legs slow them down on long marches They would get bullied like crazy if they were to become POWs. Everyone enjoys taunting an angry midget.
He would make an excellent motorcycle side car gunner.
Grayson Ross
Anyone tall enough handle moist-nugget is good for killing commies in infantry.
Jose Perez
I understand where you are going with this idea, but, I see a few problems
1) Although midgets are shorter and this is good in combat for obvious reasons, this becomes a huge shortcoming once the enemy acclimatizes to fighting them, unless, of course, midgets are only deployed as a special forces unit, which would make logical sense purely given the fact that the number of midgets per normal soldier is quite low
2) It is quite likely that they would have to be solely a merc group as gathering enough midgets that have loyalties to you or a particular nation I imagine would be difficult, and as we all know mercenaries have questionable tendencies such as defection.
3) The cost to outfit midgets with gear would actually be higher as getting ceramic body armor in child size is something that's simply not on the market and would require customization to fit the requirements, not to mention, if you are standardizing on a uniform, the cost would increase even further
In conclusion, although this is a compelling idea it ultimately falls flat; I propose, instead to comprise an army solely of manlets, they are well motivated, still within reasonable limits of strength and size of a normal man and they are excellent fighters (see Simo or Audie).
