The United States would not get involved in WWI until 1917, and so American statistics were not included in this image. But if they were, the U.S. Army's size would be somewhat larger than little Montenegro there at the far right. Given the...
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The United States would not get involved in WWI until 1917, and so American statistics were not included in this image. But if they were, the U.S. Army's size would be somewhat larger than little Montenegro there at the far right. Given the American population of 92,000,000, the army was quite small, with barely 98,000 soldiers under arms (half of whom served overseas). (Montenegro's force of 50,000 was somehow pulled out of a population of 350,000 people--Belgium, with a population of 7 million, had an army more than double the size of that of the U.S.) Of course this was a peacetime, hands-off army for the United States, and by the end of 1914 President Wilson expanded the standing army to 140,000; by 1918, when the newly-instituted draft1 really kicked in, more than 4,000,000 people would be in the armed services, half of whom would serve overseas.
