Originally Posted by kane

To me actual physical size of an military is not a solid way to measure its ability to act.

Sure, China has a lot more foot soldiers than we do. How are they going to get to us? They have 1 aircraft carrier and about 400 aircraft in their navy. We have 10 aircraft carriers and over 2,500 aircraft. Our air force is roughly twice as big as their and significantly more technologically advanced.

The US has 10 active aircraft carries with 2 in reserve and 3 being built. The rest of the world total has 12 among them.

You can have all soldiers in the world, but if you can't transport them to the battle they are not going to be of much use to you.