gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) (04/11/85)
China has the largest number of people employed in the killing business; i.e. it has the largest armed forces in the world. The Soviet Union is a close second, and the U.S. is a not-so-close third. These three countries are commonly considered the three greatest military powers in the world. Now the $64,000 question: What country is number four? The answer: Vietnam. Yes, that backwards, agrarian country has the fourth-largest army in the world, 1.2 million strong. The helpless, peaceful country which we ruthlessly overran fifteen years ago is now chasing the superpowers on the charts... Notice that three of these top four have something else in common. It really makes me see Red... -- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "The eerily accurate drawing of Goetz showed the face of the 'before' figure in comic-book ads for body-building devices."-Time Magazine, April 8