DeathDude, on Nov 1 2005, 03:05 PM, said:
Which is very unfortuante when leaders thing soldiers are just expandable.
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2000 Americans Dead..........and Counting
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Posted 01 November 2005 - 02:56 PM
I hope you mean expendable... most militaries frown upon it when their soldiers expand in mass...
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Posted 01 November 2005 - 03:22 PM
DakaSha, on Oct 31 2005, 10:19 PM, said:
edit: hmm.... although the american armed forces arnt THAT large so 2000 does put a small dent in thier strength
they got many bases in many countries... i dont think they are smaller than any other country army.
like i always say ...just blow them up......well.. if you would always do as i say then a lot of ppl would be dead.... but still blow them up 
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Posted 01 November 2005 - 03:23 PM
I think he meant the forces in Iraq. Could be wrong though.
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Posted 01 November 2005 - 03:57 PM
no i meant the american armed forces.... they ARE NOT that large no matter what they make it out to be. they used over 75% of what they had in the Gulf War.
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Posted 01 November 2005 - 04:13 PM
The US army is currently the second largest army in the world with 1,427,000 active troops, in comparison the largest army in the world is People's Liberation Army (China, duh) with 2,250,000 active troops.
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Posted 01 November 2005 - 04:21 PM
Woah China has so little active troops? And they're like 4 times larger than the USA...
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Posted 01 November 2005 - 04:25 PM
Well in the U.S it's all volunteer it's not mandatory to join the army, least not anymore.
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Posted 01 November 2005 - 04:27 PM
Yeah that makes it even more surprising to see that China has so little active troops...
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Posted 01 November 2005 - 04:29 PM
Yeah I agree with ya, I could've sworn the number was much much larger.
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Posted 01 November 2005 - 04:32 PM
The communist regime is probably hiding the real number or something, though that could go for the US too (except the communism bit ofcourse)...
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Posted 01 November 2005 - 04:40 PM
China's army, at present, is only peacekeeping/pacifing areas of their country, not far away fighting wars, so they don't need that many troops. Doubtless, if any serious opponent declared war upon them, they could call up many million more.
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Posted 01 November 2005 - 04:48 PM
They wouldn't have problems with men, but with equipment...
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Posted 01 November 2005 - 04:56 PM
They have an enormous productive capcity, it wouldn't take to long for therm to turn some of the factories manufacturing consumer goods into armaments factories. In fact, I'd be suprised if the government didn't already have a plan on how to do this if war happened.
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Posted 01 November 2005 - 05:00 PM
Stroggy, on Nov 1 2005, 04:13 PM, said:
The US army is currently the second largest army in the world with 1,427,000 active troops, in comparison the largest army in the world is People's Liberation Army (China, duh) with 2,250,000 active troops.
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Posted 01 November 2005 - 05:39 PM
Most countries could call on a lot more soldiers. The Swiss, for example, can call on just about all of their people to fight if there is a war, as they are all trained to do so. IIRC everyone there (even women) does quite a lot of time in National Service, but I might be wrong.
2000 is a really small amount compared to 1,427,000 though. I think that they got lucky considering that they had to bribe the Iraqi Air Force. The Iraqi Army semeingly couldn't be bothered either.
Also, the thing that the current media seems to be completely ignoring is that the Americans actually put Saddam into power. Oh well...
2000 is a really small amount compared to 1,427,000 though. I think that they got lucky considering that they had to bribe the Iraqi Air Force. The Iraqi Army semeingly couldn't be bothered either.
Also, the thing that the current media seems to be completely ignoring is that the Americans actually put Saddam into power. Oh well...
