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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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“[I]t is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)