[@Jig] now this isn't necessarily for this RP but if you ever get a chance to watch real pacific war footage from ww2 or Iraq war footage you can see sort of how modern combat works. (reason why I say pacific war for navy as that's as close as you'll get to modern navy warfare as we got.) its not like in games where machine gun > rifle or plane > tank, AA tank > plane, tank > AA tank. 


Using the whole gangster 30's approach is a definite easy way to go about it and wouldn't clash at all with the lifestyle you portray your people to have. Also keep in mind that nations like a NAU value stability, see my above post as to why.. Mast grogar..)

Also, never devalue the power of treaties. Lets say you had a defensive pact with the NAU, an unprovoked attack on your nation would be a potential act of war. So not only would you have the Jodesian nation declaring war, but you'd have the NAU as well. Think NATO.

Now you can do that with any willing nation, I'm just using mine cause its easy to reference.