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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
i'm calling BS on that one, you're honestly saying that Iraq had a bigger military than one of Russia, China or Britain? i'm pretty sure some of the other European nations like Germany or France would have a more sizeable military as well
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Just before their collapse, Iraq's army had 1,050,000 men in uniform.
China has 7.5 million.
Russian's army is at 1,037,000
America's army is about 1.45 million
North Korea's is about 1.9 million
France is just over 600,000
Germany's is about just over 600,000 as well.
I believe at the time China, Russia and North Korea were ahead of Iraq's in manpower strength. The American's were slightly ahead as well. But there was a massive drop off after the top 5
Its important to note that India has leapfrogged a lot of nations with a strength of about 2.5 million today.