Military
- Active troops in 2010: ranked 19 out of 172 countries.
- Per 1000 in 2010: ranked 15 out of 172 countries.
- Armed force size in 2010: ranked 19 out of 172 countries.
- Military expenditures in 2009: ranked 23 out of 153 countries.
- As a percentage of GDP in 2008: ranked 54 out of 153 countries.
- As purchasing power parity (PPP) in 2006: ranked 15 out of 15 countries.
- Total troops in 2010: ranked 10 out of 172 countries.
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“There was somewhat military in his nature, not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military genius is by the fact that, during the war, he will mock the rules of warfare and will employ creative improvisation instead of tested methods and he will do so at the right moment.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)