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Originally Posted by Michael O
This is from 2007:
1. China - 1,700,000
2. India - 1,200,000
3. North Korea - 900,000
4. South Korea - 560,000
5. Pakistan - 520,000
6. United States - 475,000
7. Iraq - 360,000 - Pre-2003, of course.
8. Myanmar - 325,000
9. Russia - 320,000
10. Iran - 320,000
If you have enough canon fodder you can go a long way Russia proved that in WWII and North Vietnam as well.
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Those stats are way off. The US Marines alone has some 200k under arms, plus another 50k in the reserves.
Wikipedia puts the figures at 1.4 mil under arms, plus another 1.4 mil in the reserves - which puts the US at the second largest military force in the world.