• KevonLooney
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    4 months ago

    I’m just explaining to you that all the “largest armies” on there are outliers. Wikipedia lists Iran as having only 600K active personnel:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Armed_Forces

    The list is just incorrect, and I explained why. South Korea has only 51 million people. Do you really think that 7.5% of all people are in the military? No, that includes “reserves” who actually do not work as soldiers.

    In that sense, every male in the US signs up for selective service at 18. Should every male aged 18 to 40 be counted as a member of the military?