The 15 Largest Armies in History
The first known fighting forces emerged in Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq, close to 5,000 years ago. It is estimated that this prototype army numbered a few thousand trained soldiers, about the size of one modern U.S. Army brigade. (This is every rank in the U.S. Army.) For as long as humans…
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