Army History
Posted August 31, 2008
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What is the largest army in world history?
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.
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