Speaking of countries having "the numbers", didn't I hear on the news that Iraq had like the 4th largest army in the world at the time of the gulf war(s)? Lots of personell, very little in the way of modern equipment, weapons, or training.
I'm with Sly, I too would take training and equipment over numbers any day. In this day and age Equipment and training are everything. Not sure how WWII got brought into it, just ONE of today's carriers could have anihilated the Pearl harbor attack force and wiped out the entire Japanese fleet. Then sailed to the Mediterranean and cleaned up the Nazis.
To those of you yakking on about how great Russia was in WWII you should really look up the term
Lend-lease some time. Russia had the numbers but lacked the materials to fight the kind of war they needed to. The US sent over millions of dollars worth of munitions and materials via this program.
Everyone talks about what the Russians did, yet incredibly and invariably they leave this little detail out of the conversation.