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A nation's way of asking questions with answers it would rather not hear twice.
means A large organized body of people trained and equipped to fight on land for a country or cause.
from From Old French 'armée,' itself from Latin 'armata' — the feminine past participle of 'armare,' meaning 'to arm' or equip with weapons, rooted in 'arma,' meaning tools or weapons. So an army is, at its linguistic root, simply 'the armed (thing)' — a crowd turned into equipment.
- origin
- from latin armare, to arm
- largest force
- india fields over 1.4 million active troops
- hierarchy quirk
- generals outrank admirals only by tradition, not logic
- ancient scale
- persian armies allegedly drank rivers dry