uniquetechng:
Then you are a disgrace to your father

Stoplying:

England has always had a smaller population than France, but I recall England defeated France in their wars.

Rwanda has a smaller population than Congo, but Rwanda routinely military humiliate Congo.

Uk had a much smaller population than the Indian kingdoms which it defeated and turned into a single country.

Japan has a smaller population than China each time Japan defeated china.

Small Sweden used to bully the Russian empire.

Israel had a much smaller population than any of the countries of the middle east which it defeated in a 6 day war.

Eritrea had a smaller population than Ethiopia when Eritrea defeated Ethiopia in its independence war.

Greece most likely had a smaller population than Egypt Alexander the great defeated Egypt.

Germany did not attack the ussr alone, it did so with Romania, Italy, Finland and some other states. In that period of time Germany occupied all of western Europe minus the UK, if you add all their populations, you would have a bigger population than the USSR.

HBB1:

Population of a country is not the population of its standing army.
They are 2 different things

I have said at least 3 things matter in war, 1 being the population of the armies.
Whilst tactics and weapons matter too.

What was the size of the English army and the French army that lost to them at Waterloo?
That's what matters.

To say the size of an army does not matter is not correct

There is a big deifference between an adult male and a soldier.
Big difference!

For instance England and South Korea have about the same population.
However, S.Korea's standing army is about 5 times the English.

If they were to fight, the Koreans will have an obvious advantage in that area-- except the English improve their numbers or have a considerable advantage in other areas.


The Brits colonised India, because it had several warring kingdoms and they sided with one over another until they gradually controlled the Country.

They had the right tactics and superior weaponry.
But despite that, they were still routed in some battles.

Germany lost because they were spread too thing on several fronts.
They had brilliant officers and way superior weaponry but lost.
They ended recruiting children to shore up their numbers in the end.

So yes, the size of armies (population of armies) matters.

HBB1:



I actually have a postgraduate too.

Live and work somewhere abroad.
Earning in the top 1% range in that Country.

Happy?

Stoplying:
I'm not knowledgeable about the battle of Waterloo, I'm talking about the battle of st Crispens, the British were outnumbered at least 3 to 1.

You can also take a look at Cesare's take over of Gaul. Cesare was greatly outnumbered.
Hannibal as well, he kept defeating the Romans who greatly outnumbered his forces.
Strategy and discipline win wars.


I'm sorry though, I don't fully understand your thesis. Could you state it ?
And if you could give a definition to "soldier" I would appreciate. The farmers who defeated the USA in Afghanistan, do they fit the definition?

I feel like we are not saying contradicting things. You only seem to believe that the size of an army is a big factor in winning or losing a war, I think it is not. Strategy is the actual bigger factor. Strategy is how 80000 russian soldiers bugged down more than 500000 Ukrainian soldiers.

Oakenshield:
no one is invading Russia u this Putin supporter but troops will be on ground to boot Russia out of Ukraine. Russia had no reason to invade another country dats y Russia don't have a voice to talk about Israel and Hamas war

AllenSpencer:



It is an occupied land and same Putin is doing. You cannot be on the fence.

If I also want be foolish like the Zionist, I can say Yoruba’s own Earth, cos it’s a well documented fact that Oduduwa created Earth and solidified it with a chicken.

The fact that natives were already in that territory before the British gave it to the Jews, it is an occupation.

Now you condemn Russia but won’t condemn US , Israel, and Australia.

That’s hypocrisy and height of double standards.

uniquetechng:
You know sometimes you just feel like having a healthy conversations with people online then encounters poorly brought up kids like that boy who see nothing wrong in throwing insults at random strangers who could even father them.
Sometimes I choose to be the bigger man and walk away, but sometimes I choose to give them back their own medicine just as I did today.
He is just a kid, I am sure my 25 years old son is way older than he is, I am 100% sure of that because my son is a lot more sensible than that kid.

uniquetechng:
Your miserable father is too daft to know that WW2 in 1947 is entirely different from any full fledged war in 2024.
It's no surprise that you're this daft because your miserable and wretched father is also daft, apple does not fall far from its tree remember.

uniquetechng:
Your dead father was an animal and still a dead animal.

AnyanwuSilas:
I have been folowing posts from both of you, you started the insult, why insult his parent if you're actually a parent? People on this fora are faceless/anonymos & can claim to be anytine like grandpa or grandma. You don't intimidate people into buying your claim.

AnyanwuSilas:
Stop insulting people's parents. Population does matter in warfare, you can't rule it out, we have many types of warfare and rules in warfare. Our problem here in Nigeria is that we don't get things defined before discussing it.

HonNL:


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