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Originally posted by Guenter
reply to post by Kashai
Isn't there a quote somewhere where it says that: Generals plan the next war with the knowledge of the past war? Not so sure the Iranian military of today is the same as the one of the Iran/Iraq war. Just my thoughts.
Originally posted by Guenter
reply to post by Kashai
Would you please explain me how you draft 120 million "spldiers" out of a population of 300 million? The best analysis is Switzerland that has with its total war effort the ability of drafting 18% of its entire population. The USA had at the mosr drafted 4% during the height of WW2. Your 130 Million is a draft of 40% of the entire population?
18 years of age (17 years of age with parental consent) for male and female voluntary service; maximum enlistment age 42 (Army), 27 (Air Force), 34 (Navy), 28 (Marines); service obligation 8 years, including 2-5 years active duty (Army), 2 years active (Navy), 4 years active (Air Force, Marines) (2010)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 73,270,043
females age 16-49:71,941,969 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49:60,620,143
females age 16-49: 59,401,941 (2010 est.) [/u
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 2,161,727
female:2,055,685 (2010 est.)
Originally posted by Guenter
reply to post by Kashai
And who will run the country?
When Switzerland boosts the highest % of serviceable people in the world they took into consideration of what actually go to the front or maintain the military. So you have lil kids running the harvesters and the trains and trucks together with the retired folks?
My OP was about what flops CNN makes, not about who got the bigger daddy. But it is essential for victory to neve runderestimate the opponent. And if you can EMP the Iranians who says they can't do that to your infrastructure? There is always one guy that brings empires down.
19 years of age for compulsory military service; 16 years of age for volunteers; 17 years of age for Law Enforcement Forces; 15 years of age for Basij Forces (Popular Mobilization Army); conscript military service obligation - 18 months; women exempt from military service (2008)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 23,619,215
females age 16-49: 22,628,341 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 20,149,222
females age 16-49: 19,417,275 (2010 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 715,111
female: 677,372 (2010 est.)
Originally posted by Guenter
reply to post by Guenter
Yes. You seem to move off from the OP. And want to make it sound again a "we are the best ..." thread. Stick to the OP please.
Just flicked throught the channels this morning and got stuck a bit on CNN when the comentator was talking about Women in combat. One expert began wondering if it is wise.
Loosely quoted: "The next thater of engagement is Iran and we know how brutal Iran treats it female prisoners. With constant rape ...etc.."
This reminds me of a small "goof" few days after 9-11 when the same CNN was talking about attacking the Taliban in Afghanistan. While they explained the "difficult terrain" they showed for a good 30+ seconds the map of Iraq.
I almost use CNN as some kind of "Oracle". Their little "goofs", "Freudian slips" and so forth usually become pretty bloody reality a few month or years later. it's mostly outside guest comentators who have the habbit of making such comments that then become reality. However often so minute that they almost drown out int he flood of other comments and statements
Originally posted by Guenter
reply to post by Kashai
All you doing is stating again how mighty you are. It has nothing to do with my OP. So consider yourself ignored.
Originally posted by shapur
reply to post by Kashai
So what you are basically saying is that, the war with Iran is inevitable and the Us will conquer Iran in the matter of days and your powerful army of 120 million! with a lot of hi tech toys will demolish the whole area with no serious resistance from Iranian Armed forces which are like Iraqi army! when you invaded them!, and Russia,China,Iranian people and the rest of the world also will cheer you up all the way through your glorious victory to liberate the poor Iranians! from a big bad monster of a regime which is ruling them,and game over,peace of cake!....Did I miss anything else?
Originally posted by Kashai
reply to post by mypan
In Russia today, it is acknowledged as statistically appropriate to conclude that, on average every woman in that country has has 8 abortions by the time they reach 40 years of age. Baby girls when born in China are often killed by there parents because of the one child law, they wanted a boy.
Hitler, Stalin and Mao all totaled killed about 100 million of there own citizens because a political agenda's. What about the Vatican and what about the invasion of the Western Hemisphere.
Your in a state of denial in my opinion.
Moscow - Women of all ages used to fill gynaecologist Lyubov Yerofeyeva's Soviet state clinic, lined up by the dozen for back-to-back abortions. “It was more common to take sick days for an abortion than for a cold in those days,” she said.
Two decades after the Soviet Union's collapse, wider availability of contraception and a resurgence of religion have reduced the numbers of abortions overall, but termination remains the top method of birth control in Russia.
Its abortion rate - 1.3 million, or 73 per 100 births in 2009 - is the world's highest