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2020-01-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Trump Has Changed How Iranians Do Risk Assessment

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-11 04:44|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 ^Israel and US will handle the Iranian challenge in their own ways

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-11 04:55|| 2020-01-11 04:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Over at ZH, some maroon commented "The iranians have 40,000 generals commanding their million man army!" (never mind the absurdity of the numbers) I replied, "You are touting that as a positive?" That reply was downvoted heavily by the hate Murica always crowd...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-11 06:28|| 2020-01-11 06:28|| Front Page Top

#3 ..I think the Persian leader Darius had similar numbers. Another Orange Man Bad moment.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-11 06:55|| 2020-01-11 06:55|| Front Page Top

#4 "The iranians have 40,000 generals commanding their million man army!"

According to Wikipedia’ United States Armed Forces page, M. Murcek

Total active duty strength as of February 28, 2019, was 1,359,685 servicemembers, with an additional 799,845 people in the seven reserve components.[31] Civilian Department of Defense Employees numbered at 744,005 in December 2018. The Department of Defense is the largest employer in the world[32]

Apparently ours is the third largest military organization in the world, behind China and India in numbers. The question of relative effectiveness was not addressed. ;-) Also, that says nothing about the unorganized militia as defined by the Constitution.

Someone at Quora posted as answer to the question about the number of American Army generals:

The U.S. Army has 315 General Officers. Generals (O-7 to O-10) comprise 0.06% of the Army. There is 1 General for every 1600 Soldiers.

The number of Generals is limited by US Code. See 10 U.S. Code § 526 - Authorized strength: general and flag officers on active duty. The Army is authorized a total of 231 Generals. Additionally the Secretary of Defense can authorize an additional 310 Generals or Flag Officers to serve in Joint assignments. These slots are split between uniformed services

We don’t need as many generals because our corporals and sergeants regularly make decisions that require field grade officers in Third World armies.

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