During the Great Patriotic War, the Red Army conscripted 29,574,900 men. Of these it lost 6,329,600 KIA, 555,400 deaths by disease and 4,559,000 MIA (most captured).
The current standing Army of the People's Republic of China is somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.8 million.
Others include:
China – 2,840,000
United States – 1,431,000
Russia – 1,200,000
India – 1,145,000
North Korea 1,055,000
It is estimated by Edward Gibbon that the maximum size of the Roman army was around 375,000 troops
King Darius topped off at about 112,000 about the time of his battles with Alexander.
2006-12-18 06:05:17
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answered by Its not me Its u 7
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Ah, size is not the issue. If you have ten million men wandering around in circles, that is not an army. If you have fifteen million men armed with slingshots and spitballs, you won't win many conflicts.
Leadership, organization, industrial might, technology, investment ... these are all elements of an effective military.
All of which is pointless in the nuclear age, of course, as a single nuke can kill tens of thousands of soldiers immediately, and hundreds of thousands (by radiation poisoning) over a brief time.
Biggest in numbers? Possibly Iran, which counts every Tom, Dick and Ahmedjani as "a soldier."
Most effective military? The USA, bar none, at least for now.
Cheers.
2006-12-17 01:35:25
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answered by Grendle 6
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LOL did you already know what even Holocaust is ?? It became a planned eliminating of an entire race which all of them precise prevail in. the reason behind the unknown forgotten Hindu Holocaust will be reason there is not any actual information of it taking place. would you've self belief in Mrs Wendy Doniger e book the hindus an option historic previous reason she is a properly commonplace historian too. And that e book demeans the Hindu faith. 2d the historic era became more desirable monarchic in nature and monarchs are expansionist. So I continuously ask this question WHY no longer ASK WHY A HINDU RULER KILLED HINDUS TO TAKE OVER yet another HINDUS LAND. best social gathering ASHOKA . So the Muslims rulers were also a similar as hindu rulers they killed for land and enlargement no longer faith or race. Why do human beings ignore the Mongols (They were no longer muslims) who did a similar ingredient as Ahmed shah abdali. third. in accordance to you source then the most important holocaust would bot be Hindu holocaust yet Holocaust by using Europe reason they manged to caputre the entire international killing thousands and thousands even eliminating some tribes from the face of the planet. What about Alekander the excellent he became close to to taking images the international must have killed thousands and thousands why can we placed an excellent in his call ?? Fourth what number Hindus there have been first of all ? and killed in what time body and by using whom ? reason they could have a similar faith yet human beings sense and picture otherwise. regrettably all of us keep CRYING HUE about human beings demise FROM THEIR faith. Why can we no longer see a guy, lady or newborn as someone ? why can we've the want to divide ? What reliable does glorifying ones faith or subculture get no longer some thing yet adjustments. a sad unhappy international we stay in. Blinded by using religion and no rational concept. We get no longer some thing out of it actually misery and really the wealthy and effective who pull the strings get each thing.
2016-10-18 09:53:39
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answered by hultman 4
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The Peoples Liberaton Army of China has over 2.2 million personnel
2006-12-17 01:11:39
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answered by the atomic penguin 2
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The army of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...NOT!!!
2006-12-17 01:05:20
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answered by Anonymous
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I would think all the forces of the European Union together...lol. Definitely wouldn't want to go against that.
Perhaps NATO is bigger...
2006-12-17 01:28:38
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answered by toxotos 2
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according to wikipedia iran has more than 11 million soldiers, and it's number one when talking about 'troops', but technology i think it is USA.
2006-12-17 01:18:14
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answered by Dirty 5
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probably the Russian army in WW2.......they lost 4 million in one week against the Germans.........and they still won......with our help of course
2006-12-17 02:16:41
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answered by SpinKick 6
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