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What was the largest army/military ever assembled in history under one nation or one command? I am talking about sheer number not really how powerful or technology advance the force was. The army could belong to one nation. Or it could be a multi-national force under a single command, like Eisenhower commanding Allied forces in Europe during WWII.
I done some internet search some most of the answer were sketchy or really didn't seem to have any evidence backing up the number. If possible if you site some source from where you got your info it would be great!
Red Army post-1945 should be the biggest and most power army in history. It had more soldiers than any other nation, it had more and better tanks than all the other combatants combined. It also had perfected the massive armored attack tactics.
There might be some definitions getting lost in the shuffle. When a nation is attacked, and the citizenry is called upon to defend the nation, there is a very blurred definition of "The Army". If he USSR mobilized virtually every male of fighting age, that would number maybe 25-million. But the number of those who were trained and armed and outfitted and organized might have been a much smaller number that we can ever know or guess.
If we (or anybody else) were to launch a concerted ground invasion of China, no doubt we would discover that the defending Army would number something like 250-million.
An "army" of men defending their homeland is a very different thing from an army mobilized abroad to attack another nation.
There might be some definitions getting lost in the shuffle. When a nation is attacked, and the citizenry is called upon to defend the nation, there is a very blurred definition of "The Army". If he USSR mobilized virtually every male of fighting age, that would number maybe 25-million. But the number of those who were trained and armed and outfitted and organized might have been a much smaller number that we can ever know or guess.
If we (or anybody else) were to launch a concerted ground invasion of China, no doubt we would discover that the defending Army would number something like 250-million.
An "army" of men defending their homeland is a very different thing from an army mobilized abroad to attack another nation.
The Russian Army invaded and went all the way to Berlin in WWII. What would say the size of the army was? I don't think those soldiers that went into enemy territory will be really defending Army, would it?
What about Genghis Khan's armies or, for that matter, those of Alexander the Great? I don't see why either would have been any smaller than that of the Soviet Union in 1945.
What about Genghis Khan's armies or, for that matter, those of Alexander the Great? I don't see why either would have been any smaller than that of the Soviet Union in 1945.
Supplies would be a good reason. The amount of food needed to feed an army of millions or even 100,000 would be overwhelming. Armies in Genghis Khan's time lived off the land. Several thousand men were plausible, but not millions.
What about Genghis Khan's armies or, for that matter, those of Alexander the Great? I don't see why either would have been any smaller than that of the Soviet Union in 1945.
not want to sound dismissive, but a little bit of common sense would go a long way. You do know the difference between the population size of ancient tribe and modern nation state, don't you? Genghis Khan ruled a collection of Mongol tribes totaling no more than 700000 people, yeah, 700000, men and women from toddlers to 80 years old. Even assuming he could draft everybody into his army, it would be still smaller than army of any one of the major WWII participants. As for Alexander the Great, well, it's safe to say more soldiers fights under one US infantry division than under the whole army under Alexander the Great's command. Dude, have some perspective.
Since modern armies require tens of thousands of support personnel, many of whom never see battle, it seems that the ancients would be strong contenders for the record. One likely claimant to that title is the army of Xerxes that fought at Thermopylae in 480 BC. The historian Herodotus claimed, likely with some exaggeration, that the Persian army numbered over 2 million. Even if it numbered only 1.5 million, it was a huge army and some historians call Persia the first super power.
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