Top Ten Armies of the World

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Goths RE:arditi 6/11/2004 8:24:35 PM

sorry for the miss spelled word

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swhitebull Top Ten Armies of the World - According to StrategyPage 6/12/2004 7:47:54 AM

This is from today's (6/12/2004) FYEO: ARMED FORCES OF THE WORLD: Who Has the Most Combat Power June 12, 2004: Which country on the planet has the most powerful armed forces? It's not a matter of numbers, although that's a major factor. By size (number of troops), the top ten looks like this; By Armed Forces Size China United States India Korea, North Russia Korea, South Pakistan Israel Turkey Iran But anyone who has studied military history knows that the number of troops is a misleading measurement. There are several factors that make the troops of one army more effective than others. The most obvious modifying factor is weapons and equipment (quantity and quality). Closely related to this are the ?combat support? elements. The most important of these are logistics (being able to move troops, and their supplies, long distances and in a timely manner) and maintenance (keeping things in repair and running under all conditions.) Then there are the intangibles, like leadership, training and the most intangible item of all; military tradition. Apply all of those and you get a different top ten. This number is called "combat power." By Combat Power United States China Israel India Russia Korea, South Korea, North United Kingdom Turkey Pakistan The most unusual entry here is Israel. But this is because Israel is one of the few nations to have a reserve army that can be mobilized for action more quickly than most countries can get their active duties into shape for combat. The mobilized Israeli armed forces number over half a million troops. In addition, the Israelis have world class equipment and weapons, as well as exceptional intangibles. The downsize of this is that mobilizing its armed forces also cripples the Israeli economy. Under these conditions, Israel must conduct a war that ends within a few months. After that, supplying the armed forces becomes difficult and actual combat power begins to decline. The other nations in the top ten have large armed forces that are well equipped and trained, at least compared to most nations farther down on the list. Britain?s armed forces, like Israel?s, are better equipped, trained and more experienced than most. Turkey benefits from having a strong military tradition and excellent leadership at the small unit level, as well as good combat training. Overall, the U.S. combat power is about three times that of second place China, and ten times that of tenth place Pakistan. But another modifying factor is how you plan to use that combat power. Wars are not fought in a vacuum, but in places that often inconvenient places for one side. Most armed forces are optimized for fighting on their own borders; for defending the homeland. Only the United States is capable of quickly moving lots of combat power to anywhere on the planet. Moreover, given a few months, the United States can put enough combat power just about anywhere, and become the major military force in that neighborhood. swhitebull - sure to raise a few hackles, n'est ce pas?

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Goths RE:Top Ten Armies of the World - According to StrategyPage 6/12/2004 11:48:20 AM

good post but i would think The UK would have to be at least in the top five on the second list

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IAFbestinworld RE:Israel 6/12/2004 9:40:42 PM

"The notion that Israel could sustain a conventional war against most European countries is absurd." -ABsolutely not. When was the last time a European country went up against aell equipped, motivated foe with solid economic resources??? ww2? look at what happened there. Europe in its entirety would be speaking German if it werent for the UNITED STATES. YOu are right that Jordan Egypt ( who now has a modern army but war wouldnt happen) syria iraq et c did not have very good capabilities, however COMBINED they pose[d] a very severe threat to Israel. You also need to understand that most European countries are pacifist and barely contain a military. Germany cannot begin a war unless it is ATTACKED. By the way, the Muslim countries that you listed were/are EXTREMELY MOTIVATED- their main goal is to drive Israel/ the jews out of the middle east, Most muslim extremeists hate Israel more than the United States. Also, I truly believe the French would never engage themselves in a conventional war. They are wussies.

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french stratege RE:Israel 6/12/2004 10:51:29 PM

"The notion that Israel could sustain a conventional war against most European countries is absurd." -ABsolutely not. " You lead absolutely the troll category here! Nice achievement! France spend only 0,8%of GNP in military procurement and is air force is on the same category than Israel.Our aerospace industry civilian and military , have one fourth the capcity of US!And dedicated to civilian for 80%. If we scale up we could field alone 10 time Israeli forces easily. ANd we have the will to fight in case of problem. But we have no real foe except some internal arabs but it is matter for police and not army. Israel problem is arroguance and its refusing to agree to its prime responsability in the arab-Israel conflict by expelling palestinian of their zone after doing massacre like in der yasin in the same way that nazis does previously agaisnt some population (but in a much more total way I agree). If you want Israel in peace, make some compromise and excuses first. Israel will have a problem in 15 years if it continue like that: imagine saudis giving their weapons to syria after monarchy replaced, or state of Iranian military industry selling low cost hight tech weapons in 15 years and having nukes and ICBM! I 'm not agaisnt Israel population but they should change their mind.However I don't like arabs and their primitive and some time barbarian mentality. If you are an israeli citizen you are a bad example.

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swhitebull RE:Israel - french stratege 6/12/2004 11:13:44 PM

..Israel problem is arroguance and its refusing to agree to its prime responsability in the arab-Israel conflict by expelling palestinian of their zone after doing massacre like in der yasin in the same way that nazis does previously agaisnt some population (but in a much more total way I agree)... And what would be the responsiblity of the Jews? You are unclear in what you say. I really really hope that you are NOT comparing an isolated incident on the part of extremist Jews with the deliberate systemic and explicit policies of the Nazis, French Stratege. That would be extremely disappointing to learn that you buy into that bit of tripe. I would have thought that of all people, you would be above making that analogy - as patently absurd as it is. Perhaps a better analogy would be the French official policies during the Algieria War, with the deliberate and forcible relocation of 2 MILLION rural Algerians to more easily controlled areas: The often brutal fighting, stretching across much of the country for nearly eight years, disrupted or emptied many rural villages. The deliberate French policy of resettlement of rural populations gathered more than 2 million villagers in Frenchbuilt fortified settlements under a regroupement program. The total number of Algerians displaced by the war cannot be accurately known, but Algerian authorities place the figure at more than 3 million permanently or temporarily moved. That would be more akin to what the Germans did in WW2 to "troublesome" populations. That is the analogy you really should be making - NOT taking an isolated incident and extropolating that to an overall policy by the Jewish authorities. A consequence of the Deir yassin incident was that the Irgun and Stern gang were forcibly disbanded, whereas the ultimate onsequence of French policies was the loss of Algeria. SO please clarify what our are trying to say - it did not come across clearly. swhitebull

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Goths RE:Israel - french stratege 6/13/2004 11:22:50 AM

what do you expect from a frenchmen they were pro israel until the mass influx of arabs into france now they are pro arab you cant expect a frenchmen to stand on principal they dont understand the concept

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Advocate Of REason RE:Israel - french stratege 6/13/2004 12:25:31 PM

As I have always said, the french are a bunch of ungrateful backstabbers.

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french stratege RE:Israel - french stratege 6/13/2004 12:59:55 PM

"I really really hope that you are NOT comparing an isolated incident on the part of extremist Jews with the deliberate systemic and explicit policies of the Nazis, French Stratege. That would be extremely disappointing to learn that you buy into that bit of tripe." I don't put both at the same level: the Nazi did much worse.However for Israel expelling arabs using terror and massacre,it was not the policy of a single group isolated but a policy done by a part of the Israel 1948 forces with full approval of high command in violation of UNO 1948 resolution.And it is the problem with today Israel arrogance.I'm not in favor of Israel or Arabs even I respect much more israelis than arabs. If I were sharon I would try to exchange south of Israel (for exemple 4 time Gaza surface in exchange of half cisjordanie to widen telAviv corridor until 60 km and then give an economical help with US to palestinian) I'm french so in favor of French interest and after western civilisation.I don't see why my governement should be israel ally of arabs ally.

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Advocate Of REason RE:Israel - french stratege 6/13/2004 9:00:41 PM

You will have to excuse me if I dont believe a single word that comes out of a frenchman's mouth when he speaks of french interests (if you didnt catch it stratege, the words french and frenchman were left uncapitalized on purpose)

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