Army Size Quotes
In large warfare at the time and in the American Civil War disease was responsible for more death than weapons. The logic is that with fewer troops necessary, there would be less disease. However, the reality was that machine guns never did reduce the number of soldiers—it only produced more lethal soldiers.
Saddam claimed to his people that Iraq had essentially won the Gulf War as they were stronger afterwards than ever before and they had been able to suppress the Kurds and the Shiites with the helicopters and arms with which the emerged from the war and had been allowed to keep.
Washington, although the presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention, said almost nothing for such was the respect for him that he cou;d sway almost any issue. But the absurdity of limiting the size of the American Army was too much for him, and his clever way of phrasing his concern ended discussion of that idea without any ill feelings.
