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The MoD of India is larger, fyi.
by ukd1 2y ago
The MoD of India is larger, fyi.
- skyyler 2y agoI assumed it would be much larger, but it's a fraction of a percent larger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers That's actually kind of shocking to me given the difference in population between the countries.
- quickthrowman 2y agoIt shouldn’t be that shocking, the United States is the only country able to project military power globally. India can’t even provide basic sanitation for all of its citizens.
- ls612 2y agoPoor countries can have enormous armies. The PLA during the late 1970s had like 5 million people in the ground forces alone. They have since cut that number by over 2/3 as they modernized.
- amenhotep 2y agoIndian MoD 200,000 civilian employees, US DoD over 700,000 civilian employees - that's the part where the difference you'd expect shows up, not in the raw number of soldiers.
- austin-cheney 2y agoThanks for pointing that out. I had no idea.