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Hey, just for comparison. How many countries currently have a standing army that's 500,000 soldiers strong? In fact, what's the average size of an army?
Active Duty US Army is 465,239 for FY22
Source: https://api.army.mil/e2/c/downloads/2022/08/05/90d128cb/active-component-demographic-report-june-2022.pdf
Though if we ever had a “special military operation”, there’s 15 million Americans registered with the Selective Service.
Maybe a "police action"?
Ngl these numbers are quite exagerated but even 1/5 of these losses is still massive