Originally Posted by XxXotic

Total military personnel on September 30, 2003, was 1,434,377. This means that 17.6 percent of U.S. military forces were deployed on foreign soil at that time.. assume we sent another 8-10% to iraq/afghanistan we still have 75% or so of our troops at home. I think our military is at around 1.7 million people now, im not totally sure on that i couldnt find any recent numbers on it. China's army is at 2.5m (largest in the world)