While i was enjoying myself reading certain thread that is currently closed i stumbled upon a certain list which some of you might find interesting. In the thread i mentioned before a certain well known member of our small internet community expressed his concerns about how Europeans are basically helpless in face of any real threats. So i leaned back and thought what might be a good indicator for such complex issue of populations capability of waging war and even more important their willingness, which that certain member was so vehemently worried about. Well i decided to do a little search and i found a really nice indicator, if we generalize things to extremes:
military personnel/ population ratio.
So basically how many military personnel Country has compared to how many people they have. Then i stumbled into an interesting list,here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...mber_of_troops
And what i see? When you look at certain larger North American country and find their place from the total of military personnel per 1000 people, strange thing happened. The country was on the 71st place when you look at how many people actually have military training out of 1000 people. Ultra militaristic European countries like: Finland 11th, Bulgaria 15th, Creece 20th, Switzerland 21st, Estonia 23rd, Portugal 24th, Sweden 25th, Austria 26th, Montenegro 33rd, Moldova 36th, Norway 40th, Denmark 41st, Spain 49th, Serbia 55th, Croatia 60th, Romania 62nd, Hungary 65th, Lithuania 67th and Italy at 70th place, have more military trained people compared to whole population then.....I am sure you already guessed? Yes: The United States of America. So should we now start worrying that the population of USA has lost their war like Nature and might be heading towards certain doom as their warrior spirit and willingness to serve their country has faded?
Concerning the great worries about the self defence capabilities of Europeans.
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