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what is the greatest military in the world?

USA
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64%
China
21
6%
Russia
37
11%
France
10
3%
Britain
31
9%
North Korea
9
3%
UN security force.
15
4%
 
Total votes : 345

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Postby The Master M » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:12 pm

Last I checked, England did not have an army to speak of. If it were an option, I would certainly choose either the army of Great Britain, or that of Israel.
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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:12 pm

Mad hatters in jeans wrote:
Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Mad hatters in jeans wrote::lol2:
Poll options are daft.

But of the options definetely the UN. They are the uber-super-kill force of the 21st Century.


Yeah, seriously? UN? NK? does anyone honestly think these are the greatest militaries on the planet? The fact that the US and Russia, out nuke them both significantly makes their military a complete joke.


have a think about what you just said....
:lol:


hm?

Do you just mean how the UN doesn't really have a military?
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Postby The Halseyist Faction » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:13 pm

Based on what criteria, exactly?

Indivdually trained, and equiped, it's the UK.

In terms of, lets put your entire army here, and have it fight against X, it's probably the USA.

If it's 'Fight a war and see who wins' it's clearly no-one, because everyone on that list, (expect possibly north Korea) has enough nukes to render the question pointless.

If your looking purely at equipment, it's probably either the USA, or UN.

If your looking from a historical perspective... Then I think it's England, given that they've had a significantly longer time to take over the world. The USA has far to many black marks, (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq...) in too shorter space of time, and has never fought a war on their own turf, (Certainly not without the help of a zillion foregin allies) to be a good judge. The French were pretty kick ass under Napoelon of course, but since then they've epically failed.

Russia in WW2 was probably the most powerful nation in the World, bar none, in terms of the Army, while the USA took the cake in terms of Naval Capacity.

The Chinese do have one kick ass airforce though. How do we score points for different branches of the services here?
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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:14 pm

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I'm guessing it was a joke....Also as long as the US is TEAM WORLD POLICE, they can't do shit because we have like 36k troops stationed in germany already.


The Germans are our broskis. Why would they do anything against us? Especially when the biggest ethnic group in the USA are German-Americans?

As for the best military, I'd have to say, yeah, U.S.A.


Didn't stop us from curb stomping them two times in a row...
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Postby Mad hatters in jeans » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:15 pm

Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Mad hatters in jeans wrote:
Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Mad hatters in jeans wrote::lol2:
Poll options are daft.

But of the options definetely the UN. They are the uber-super-kill force of the 21st Century.


Yeah, seriously? UN? NK? does anyone honestly think these are the greatest militaries on the planet? The fact that the US and Russia, out nuke them both significantly makes their military a complete joke.


have a think about what you just said....
:lol:


hm?

Do you just mean how the UN doesn't really have a military?

I was making a joke by overstating the UN being amazing. That's all.
Jeez how to make a humerous observation awkward part one by lackadaisical2

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Postby Thuristian » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:16 pm

Didn't stop us from curb stomping them two times in a row...


Only because they provoked us that one time with that ship and the dead civilians, and that other time they were just asking for it like walking into a Gay Bar with assless chaps.
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Postby New Kereptica » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:17 pm

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Postby L3 Communications » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:17 pm

The Halseyist Faction wrote:Based on what criteria, exactly?

Indivdually trained, and equiped, it's the UK.

In terms of, lets put your entire army here, and have it fight against X, it's probably the USA.

If it's 'Fight a war and see who wins' it's clearly no-one, because everyone on that list, (expect possibly north Korea) has enough nukes to render the question pointless.

If your looking purely at equipment, it's probably either the USA, or UN.

If your looking from a historical perspective... Then I think it's England, given that they've had a significantly longer time to take over the world. The USA has far to many black marks, (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq...) in too shorter space of time, and has never fought a war on their own turf, (Certainly not without the help of a zillion foregin allies) to be a good judge. The French were pretty kick ass under Napoelon of course, but since then they've epically failed.

Russia in WW2 was probably the most powerful nation in the World, bar none, in terms of the Army, while the USA took the cake in terms of Naval Capacity.

The Chinese do have one kick ass airforce though.
How do we score points for different branches of the services here?


The bold = Wrong. The Chinese got nothing on the largest, most well-equipped and one of the most well-trained airforces in the world (USAF, duh).

Just like the USAF got nothing on JG 73 and their awesome pwnage l33t-h4x MiG-29s. D:
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Postby The Halseyist Faction » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:17 pm

The Master M wrote:Last I checked, England did not have an army to speak of. If it were an option, I would certainly choose either the army of Great Britain, or that of Israel.

Oh. Israel. Yeah, they do kinda have the best army in the world. It's just tiny. Why arn't they on the Poll?
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Postby Augarundus » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:19 pm

Capitalistliberals wrote:
Chetssaland wrote:North Korea? Why are they on here? Russia and China just have numbers.



North korea has the 3rd largest active military in the world


North Korea's population is less than 1/3 of the United States'.

Their military is crap, even if large.

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This isn't a debate, the US military is the finest force the world has EVER seen (this beats even the Wehrmacht, which was extremely powerful).

I'm surprised you put France or the UN on the list. If I were to gather worthy opponents, I'd say:

-UK
-Russia
-Germany
-China
-Israel

And end it there.
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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:19 pm

Mad hatters in jeans wrote:
Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Mad hatters in jeans wrote:
Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Mad hatters in jeans wrote::lol2:
Poll options are daft.

But of the options definetely the UN. They are the uber-super-kill force of the 21st Century.


Yeah, seriously? UN? NK? does anyone honestly think these are the greatest militaries on the planet? The fact that the US and Russia, out nuke them both significantly makes their military a complete joke.


have a think about what you just said....
:lol:


hm?

Do you just mean how the UN doesn't really have a military?

I was making a joke by overstating the UN being amazing. That's all.
Jeez how to make a humerous observation awkward part one by lackadaisical2


uhm.. yes, thats my job. I knew you were joking, in your original post, after that, it was pure fail. :P
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Postby Capitalistliberals » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:20 pm

Augarundus wrote:
Capitalistliberals wrote:
Chetssaland wrote:North Korea? Why are they on here? Russia and China just have numbers.



North korea has the 3rd largest active military in the world


North Korea's population is less than 1/3 of the United States'.

Their military is crap, even if large.

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This isn't a debate, the US military is the finest force the world has EVER seen (this beats even the Wehrmacht, which was extremely powerful).

I'm surprised you put France or the UN on the list. If I were to gather worthy opponents, I'd say:

-UK
-Russia
-Germany
-China
-Israel

And end it there.


1/15th the size of the US actually, and I never said it was good, only large.
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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:21 pm

The Halseyist Faction wrote:
The Master M wrote:Last I checked, England did not have an army to speak of. If it were an option, I would certainly choose either the army of Great Britain, or that of Israel.

Oh. Israel. Yeah, they do kinda have the best army in the world. It's just tiny. Why arn't they on the Poll?


The answer is in your post...
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Postby The Halseyist Faction » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:21 pm

L3 Communications wrote:
The Halseyist Faction wrote:Based on what criteria, exactly?

Indivdually trained, and equiped, it's the UK.

In terms of, lets put your entire army here, and have it fight against X, it's probably the USA.

If it's 'Fight a war and see who wins' it's clearly no-one, because everyone on that list, (expect possibly north Korea) has enough nukes to render the question pointless.

If your looking purely at equipment, it's probably either the USA, or UN.

If your looking from a historical perspective... Then I think it's England, given that they've had a significantly longer time to take over the world. The USA has far to many black marks, (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq...) in too shorter space of time, and has never fought a war on their own turf, (Certainly not without the help of a zillion foregin allies) to be a good judge. The French were pretty kick ass under Napoelon of course, but since then they've epically failed.

Russia in WW2 was probably the most powerful nation in the World, bar none, in terms of the Army, while the USA took the cake in terms of Naval Capacity.

The Chinese do have one kick ass airforce though.
How do we score points for different branches of the services here?


The bold = Wrong. The Chinese got nothing on the largest, most well-equipped and one of the most well-trained airforces in the world (USAF, duh).

Just like the USAF got nothing on JG 73 and their awesome pwnage l33t-h4x MiG-29s. D:


Oooh... I never thought you'd sink to the level of the common troll. My hat of to you Sir, for challenging my preconceptions.
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Postby Wutaco » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:22 pm

Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Mad hatters in jeans wrote::lol2:
Poll options are daft.

But of the options definetely the UN. They are the uber-super-kill force of the 21st Century.


Yeah, seriously? UN? NK? does anyone honestly think these are the greatest militaries on the planet? The fact that the US and Russia, out nuke them both significantly makes their military a complete joke.


To be fair to the UN, you cant physically just "Nuke" it like you can with NK. I suppose if you want to get technical, you can level Manhatten with a nuke. But that as you can guess, is a no no. Because the US will then blow the living shit out of your country and be partying in the ruins within an hour.
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Postby Mad hatters in jeans » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:23 pm

Lackadaisical2 wrote:uhm.. yes, thats my job. I knew you were joking, in your original post, after that, it was pure fail. :P

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Postby Serene Sloths » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:24 pm

What about Australia? It has a small army but it's SAS are top notch and Aussie Diggers during WW1 for example captured the most amount of ground {until the Americans came} and had the highest number of volunteers to population also, so imho I say Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi :)

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Postby Augarundus » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:40 pm

Capitalistliberals wrote:
Augarundus wrote:
Capitalistliberals wrote:
Chetssaland wrote:North Korea? Why are they on here? Russia and China just have numbers.



North korea has the 3rd largest active military in the world


North Korea's population is less than 1/3 of the United States'.

Their military is crap, even if large.

---

This isn't a debate, the US military is the finest force the world has EVER seen (this beats even the Wehrmacht, which was extremely powerful).

I'm surprised you put France or the UN on the list. If I were to gather worthy opponents, I'd say:

-UK
-Russia
-Germany
-China
-Israel

And end it there.


1/15th the size of the US actually, and I never said it was good, only large.


Sorry, the 1/3 was a typo, I meant to say 1/10 (I was saying North Korea's population was 30 million instead of... 21-25?)
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Postby Kim Yong Il » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:43 pm

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Postby Serene Sloths » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:48 pm

You know what they say pay peanuts and you get monkeys :-D ummmm so yeah monkeys with guns do lil in the way of defeating the enemy! {thou they would be fun to watch}

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Postby Krazniastan » Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:19 pm

Serene Sloths wrote:What about Australia? It has a small army but it's SAS are top notch and Aussie Diggers during WW1 for example captured the most amount of ground {until the Americans came} and had the highest number of volunteers to population also, so imho I say Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi :)


No.

Simply because you guys took a perfectly serviceable infantry weapon, (the AUG) and completely cocked it up. (The F88, aka AUSTEYR, aka that $#@!ing piece of $#@!)
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Postby Uawc » Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:31 pm

Krazniastan wrote:
Serene Sloths wrote:What about Australia? It has a small army but it's SAS are top notch and Aussie Diggers during WW1 for example captured the most amount of ground {until the Americans came} and had the highest number of volunteers to population also, so imho I say Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi :)


No.

Simply because you guys took a perfectly serviceable infantry weapon, (the AUG) and completely cocked it up. (The F88, aka AUSTEYR, aka that $#@!ing piece of $#@!)


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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:35 pm

Rhods wrote:What is the best military in the world in your opinion and why?


If it's by sheer numbers, China. If it's by training and weaponry, the US.
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Postby Gauntleted Fist » Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:36 pm

The Halseyist Faction wrote:and has never fought a war on their own turf,
I seriously did not just read this.

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Postby Uawc » Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:38 pm

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The Halseyist Faction wrote:and has never fought a war on their own turf,
I seriously did not just read this.


I freaking lol'd.
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