FamousPlan101@lemmygrad.ml to GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml · edit-28 months agoIn 2024, the US Army will be the smallest since World War II.www.wearethemighty.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up172arrow-down1external-linkIn 2024, the US Army will be the smallest since World War II.www.wearethemighty.comFamousPlan101@lemmygrad.ml to GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml · edit-28 months agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareRom [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·8 months agoIn other words the US has had a larger military than it had in WWII for every year since WWII for some fucking reason.
minus-squareImOnADiet@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up18·8 months agoOn the off chance a lib wanders by, here’s the reason: empire
minus-squareComradeSalad@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoThe 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.
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.