World's largest Armies since 2500 BC?

Great infographic, 1SG (Join to see)! I would expect nothing less from the "This Day in History" guy. Just goes to show you that we are not the largest military around these days. And that's saying something for the world's policeman. (I say that with utmost respect. We have the (implied, at least) mission of being the world's policeman, so we should have the personnel to perform that mission.)

Poor army, you guys have only "an army of one".

Bigger isn't always better.
Remember how concerned some people were that Iraq had the fourth largest Army in the world in 1990? That didn't turn out so well for them. Julius Caesar in his Gaul campaign laid siege to Alesia and when Gallic reinforcements showed up to relieve Vercingatorix's besieged Army, he was outnumbered between three and six to one.

Guts and training trump numbers.