Guess Who Has:

[WR Olsen]

709,000 regular (active duty) service personnel,293,000 reserve troops,
8 standing Army divisions,
20 Air Force and Navy air wings with
2,000 combat aircraft,
232 strategic bombers,
13 strategic ballistic missile submarines with 3,114 nuclear warheads on 232 missiles,
500 ICBMs with 1,950 warheads,
4 aircraft carriers,
121 surface combat ships and submarines, plus all the support bases,
shipyards and logistical assets needed to sustain such a force

Is this country Russia? . . . No.
Red China ? . . . No.
Great Britain ? . . . Wrong Again.
USA? . . . Hardly. Give up??

Well, don't feel too bad if you are unable to identify this global superpower,
because this force no longer exists....... It has vanished.

These are the American military forces that have disappeared since the 1992 election of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.

Sleep well, America

 

[mussi]

I can't believe it.

Switzerland (7 million human beings) has 425000 personnel, although
most militia-style. 500 tanks, enough jet fighters, but no nukes (that
I'd know of), and no navy.

And believe me, Switzerlans is SMALL.

Are we a super power?

 

[RHC]

Not yet, Mussi, but maybe in a few years, since both France and Germany are downsizing their military. France is about the only other country with long-range airlift capability; I don't know if they will keep it.

I was driving through the mountains in Switzerland one time and came upon the army on manuevers in these little tiny tanks! I suppose they're well suited to mountain fighting, but they looked like they were about the size of a Renault.