They HAVE to be joking, surely?!?!

Erm, no.
But apart from being riddled with historical and factual inaccuracies, it's saving grace is its laughable, monotonal narration.

The gene pool needs more chlorine!

 

Utter rubbish.....and you cant compare apples with bananas.

IanS 

I think this has just been mis-titled. Isn't it just the armies most represented in Hollywood?

I had to laugh though. Just knew who would be no 1.

Napoleon would have been very surprised to learn that he only had 30,000 men, I think.

I think the US army in 1916 was lamentable, not much better in Tunisia, picked up 1943-44 then had mixed fortunes in Korea. Since then, it didn't exactly cover itself in glory in Viet Nam. The '80s and '90s were all about picking on the little guy.

My point is that you can't generalise to the degree that the video did. In fact I'm getting quite annoyed!   

Of course Americans will put America's Army on top spot. Pft.....delusional. Americans simply outproduce everyone and bring in "more firepower" that is all.
British, Germans, Spartans etc...all superior when comparing on a 1:1 basis.

You could make an argument that the American army is the best at the moment. Not that there's a lot of competition. It's had quite a bit of experience in the last decade and the equipment is the most modern and lavish.

However, it hasn't really distinguished itself since ... um ... well it did do quite well in ... no ... Korea? no the Big Bug Out ruined that one ... so Viet Nam   - sorry .. well .. oh! I know - Sam Houston did quite well in 1836 - what do you mean that wasn't America? Oh, they were Texians? OK well then the American Revolution? No, the armies didn't really do all that well then either, did they?

Well they were very good in all those Western films with John Wayne.
 

I think many vietnam veterans would be quite mad upon hearing that 'they got to flex their muscles in vietnam'

Who writes this sort of crap?

Quote from: fsn on 09 December 2013, 01:02:41 PM
You could make an argument that the American army is the best at the moment. Not that there's a lot of competition. It's had quite a bit of experience in the last decade and the equipment is the most modern and lavish.

However, it hasn't really distinguished itself since ... um ... well it did do quite well in ... no ... Korea? no the Big Bug Out ruined that one ... so Viet Nam   - sorry .. well .. oh! I know - Sam Houston did quite well in 1836 - what do you mean that wasn't America? Oh, they were Texians? OK well then the American Revolution? No, the armies didn't really do all that well then either, did they?

Well they were very good in all those Western films with John Wayne.
 

Well but that is The Duke!

The American Army did particularly well and covered itself with glory when it was...err...fighting itself between 1861 and1865.

Quote from: Dour Puritan on 09 December 2013, 04:35:02 PM
The American Army did particularly well and covered itself with glory when it was...err...fighting itself between 1861 and1865.

Am I the only person on the forum for whom there is no link in the original post?!

Mollinary

I've had that this morning. Was at work so probably blocked.

Just type in 'top 10 armies of all time' on youtube