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Originally posted by Spanky
Was it that many? Really? I think the entire US army had twelve and that was reduced to ten under Clinton and Bush I. I could be a little off but not that far off.
We couldn't be occupying Iraq with more than four or five (I am guessing).
Are you sure it was 200 divisions?
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It wouldn't surprise me at various times, but does seem high for Eastern Europe alone. Your numbers would be low.
Iraq has about 140,000 troops right now - probably about 10 divisions, more or less. (a little google-foo - currently 500,000 troops in 18 divisions in active army; about 700,000 troops in the reserves; not clear how many divisions in Iraq - bits and pieces of many divisions have been deployed).
Estimates of troops deployed during the Prague Spring run as high as a half million - assuming an average of 15,000 per division, that would be about 33 divisions. And the most heavily occupied was always East Germany.
