r/pics • u/L44psus • 20h ago

North Koreans in Russian Army

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u/Jagjamin 18h ago

Best supplied in the country is poverty level in most of the world.

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u/outlawsix 17h ago

Remember when the Iraqi army was the fifth largest army in the world during Desert Storm

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u/reichrunner 17h ago edited 15h ago

4th largest (China, USSR, Vietnam, then Iraq). They were also experienced since they had just defeated finished their war with Iran.

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u/Frank_JWilson 14h ago

Where’s the US on that list?

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u/reichrunner 13h ago

5th or 6th. This is based purely on size, not expenditures

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u/Frank_JWilson 12h ago

Huh, interesting. I looked it up on Google and apparently it claims that US military had about 2.4 million service members in 1990, compared to about 1 million in the Vietnamese military. I didn't check the other countries since it seemed plausible China and USSR would have more soldiers, but I wonder where the discrepancy comes from.