{"id":1488613,"date":"2024-09-08T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1488613"},"modified":"2024-09-08T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T05:35:00","slug":"these-are-the-biggest-armies-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/these-are-the-biggest-armies-in-the-middle-east\/1488613\/","title":{"rendered":"These Are The Biggest Armies In The Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">These Are The Biggest Armies In The Middle East<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The Israel-Hamas war has raised fears that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/map-explainer-the-gaza-strip\/\">conflict<\/a>\u00a0could spread to other parts of the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>While Israel has the support of the United States, which has the most advanced army in the world, Hamas is backed by Iran, one of the world\u2019s 15 largest military powers.<\/p>\n<p>This chart shows the top 10 countries in the Middle East by total military personnel as of August 2024. The data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalfirepower.com\/countries-listing.php\">GlobalFirepower.com<\/a> and includes both active and reserve personnel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/The-Biggest-Armies-in-the-Middle.jpg?itok=MKr7XAYL\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Egypt and Iran Have the Largest Armies in the Region<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Egypt and Iran have the largest armies in the Middle East, each country with over 1 million personnel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2024-09-03_19-28-43.gif?itok=8aupn1Cb\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In third place, Turkey has over 800,000 personnel. In fourth place, Israel\u2019s forces include 170,000 active personnel and over 465,000 in reserve, as conscription to military service is compulsory for all Israelis who turn 18.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to its sizable force, Iran possesses the largest missile arsenal in the Middle East and the fifth-largest rocket artillery globally. Moreover, Iran has the largest standing military in the Middle East, with over 500,000 active-duty forces.<\/p>\n<p><em>To learn more about this topic, check out this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voronoiapp.com\/geopolitics\/Vietnam-India-and-South-Korea-Have-the-Largest-Armies--1335\">graphic<\/a>\u00a0about the biggest armies in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sat, 09\/07\/2024 &#8211; 21:35<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/these-are-biggest-armies-middle-east\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/these-are-biggest-armies-middle-east<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These Are The Biggest Armies In The Middle East The Israel-Hamas war has raised fears that the\u00a0conflict\u00a0could spread to other parts of the Middle East&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1488614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1488614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}