try to guess the top 5 countries by military size

[Altruist]

so including active military, reserve military and paramilitary

(at least according to public data, which seems legit)

[anonymousloser]

america, india, russia, nk, china

[MVP]

China
India
North Korea
Usa
Russia

[Altruist]

america, india, russia, nk, china

3/5

China
India
North Korea
Usa
Russia

3/5


---

obviously this isnt the only factor that determines the strength of an army since millions of poorly armed, poorly trained and uncoordinated peasants are useless in modern warfare

[Altruist]

a better question (since the op one is relatively easy to guess, you just go by the countries' population) - where is germany on that list?



also, mirin Iceland with 0 active soldiers and 0 reserve soldiers

[kathisterima]

those countries like Germany and UK have super advanced military industries and could throw money at the industry anytime and grow a massive army. North Korea has 1 million troops with AKs, cold war MiGs and rusty soviet tanks. Absolutely worthless lives to be purged on the enemy meatgrinder. Mirin doctrine.

[kathisterima]

my guess is:

China
N.Korea
Russia
Iran
Turkey

(the latter 2 have massive paramilitaries)

[ethnicmogger]

north korea is not a contender their population is malnourished and untrained they only have the threat of nuclear war

[Altruist]

those countries like Germany and UK have super advanced military industries and could throw money at the industry anytime and grow a massive army. North Korea has 1 million troops with AKs, cold war MiGs and rusty soviet tanks. Absolutely worthless lives to be purged on the enemy meatgrinder. Mirin doctrine.

true. assume israel was placed in africa or south america - they could take on those entire continents in a conflict.

and those figures are specially meaningless for countries that don't have nuclear weapon.

[Altruist]

my guess is:

China
N.Korea
Russia
Iran
Turkey

(the latter 2 have massive paramilitaries)

2/5

[Altruist]

north korea is not a contender their population is malnourished and untrained they only have the threat of nuclear war

mostly true, but they are way more organized and coordinated than western propaganda wants you to think