>>21322464>Wouldn't a sign of a likely war with Argentina would make you mobilize menat the time it wasn't possible to spot this type of troop buildups since there were no satellites or planes.
>or have a garrison to have troops in paraguaya peacetime garrison would not be able to stop a fully mobilized army.
> and also would depend on the time since this is just us guessing that brazil goes to war with Argentina after the triple alliance and not in the future where a path is connected to the main brazillian area and not relying on said basin river.sure, but brazilian policymakers at the end of the war needed to base their decisions on the realities of that time. it took decades until we had the infranstructure to move troops to that area by land.
>Also you'd likely have troops (garrison) in paraguay anyways to suppress any resisting paraguayians still aliveeven if the garrison placed there was large enough to stop the argentine army, we wouldn't be able to supply them by land.
