As mentioned earlier, actual military capability varies from statistics found online and in the press. A lot of these other countries mentioned earlier in this thread inflate their numbers just to 'say' they have a large 'insert military branch' or fleet of 'insert weapon/plane/ship'.
When we invaded Iraq, Saddam Hussein supposedly had '2 million soldiers' at his disposal and threatened us with his so-called 'Iraq Elite Revolutionary Guard', what a laugh. My father tells me when he was entering Baghdad, he could hear their radio broadcasting how they were 'annihilating the American scum' yet when the Allied forces actually arrived, they were met with little to no resistance. Initially, their small military was wiped out very quickly while we were left with the fucking roaches/guerrillas pinching us in the ass for the past few years.
Iran is another country who say they have 'millions of troops at their disposal'...ah, sounds just like pre-war Iraq. I'm not dissing on military's of China/Russia, I'm just saying that they heavily inflate their numbers, or will add disfunctional and outdated equipment to their rooster.
I primarily work with maintaining advanced computer systems on ships and weapons systems, but during briefings we are told all of this information about other countries capabilities up-front, so we know who we may be theoretically dealing with.
