Number of military personnel in NATO countries

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  1. Finland should increase professional army. They have numbers lesser than Portugal and only potential enemy of Portugal is Atlantic Ocean.

  2. What do they call “paramilitary” in this? For as far as I know, there is no paramilitary organisation in France.

  3. Those 28 finnish paramilitary personnel must be the deadliest fighting force out there or why else keep them 🤷‍♂️

  4. That’s a huge army reserve Portugal has, could anyone explain why that is? The rest of the countries in the per 1000 (total) I can understand, but Portugal stands out.

  5. What list is this? When I look it up on Wikipedia Germany ranks above the UK with 233.550 military personnel.

  6. Whats the definition of paramilitary? As there are a few in the UK and a private army in Scotland.

  7. I’m in this picture and I like it. Finland’s wartime strength is 300k. Remaining 600k is a reserve for the reserves.

  8. This is what citizen soldiership looks like. From a Finnish reservist perspective it seems weird to think being a soldier is a job. Sure, a fine choice of profession if you want to dedicate your life to it, but relying on professionals to defend your country seems curious, and frankly… Off. No, if the entire country and people are under threat, it is everyone’s duty to rise up to defend.

    Most countries’ circumstances are of course different. Most don’t have a realistic existential threat next door. Finland does. Always has, and for the foreseeable future, will have.

  9. Clearly these numbers are counted in different ways. Finland includes everyone who went through conscription. In that case Germany would be at more than 10 million reservists

  10. The Greek reserves are a couple of millions.
    Greeks just go to the army and stay as reserves until their 60s.
    That means that all male population are effectively reserves.

  11. If you counted the «militias» in the US as paramilitary, nato would have three times the manpower

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