In other words the US has had a larger military than it had in WWII for every year since WWII for some fucking reason.
On the off chance a lib wanders by, here’s the reason: empire
The US hasn’t, this article is either lying or chose their words poorly.
Population growth? An army will proportionally increase in size relative to the population.
In 1945 the US population would have been 139,928,165 people, with the US military at 16,000,000.
Today the population is 336.58 million people, with 1.6 million in the military.
YESSSSSS LET’S GO, AMERIKKKAN CENTURY OF HUMILIATION
Lmfao the Marines about to be just “the few” 😂
these articles are so crazy, DOOM for the [largest professional military on earth] because of missing a recruitment goal by a rounding error amount. if these people actually need bodies they’ll just do a draft, but they’d rather not because it’d mess with the ideological purity and quality
This is blatantly wrong, the US military at its peak in WW2 numbered 16,000,000 (16 million) personnel.
In 2023 there are 1,600,000 (1.6 million) personnel. The US military has been below WW2 mobilization numbers for decades, its impossible to keep that number of people mobilized.
What is this article talking about???
It says before WWII, not wartime numbers.
But that is false as well. The army size in the interwar period was 200,000-500,000.
1,801,101 in 1941 just before Pearl Harbour, it increased during the war and now it has decreased to levels before the start of US participation in WW2.
What is your source? The national WW2 registry lists there being only roughly 300,000 pre-Pearl harbor. Then roughly 1.4 million total after mass enlistment and drafting in December.
Why would the US military be fielding a peacetime force of 1.6 million members? That’s an insane amount of men relative to the population.
Or this direct US army document that states that the US’ proactive mobilization plan would increase the US military from 167,000 men in 1939 to 320,000 men by mid 1941 in preparation for potentially joining the European front.
https://history.army.mil/documents/wwii/ww2mob.htm
Where are you getting the extra million men?
EDIT: Nevermind I think I found a source that says something similar to what you’re saying, but it’s a massive misrepresentation of the data. The 1.6 million men number is including YET TO BE ACTIVATED reservists, national guard members, and potential draft selections yet to be activated.
The US military’s actual effective strength was 300,000. The other million exist only on paper up until December when mobilization kicked into maximum overdrive.
