Originally posted by: xXped0thugXx
If your talking about Quality there are different fighting forces that are much better than the USA quality wise. Marines go to train around the world with other armys all the time. There is a fighting force in Africa that is supposed to be the best trained force in the world. Then you also have the British Marines, etc.
You also have armys in places like somalia that grew up fighting. Years of a civil war you get pretty skilled with weapons and markmanship yada yada, but in no means do they have an organized technologically advanced army. They however may be better fighters.
You also have the North Koreans who are threatning because of their known nuclear tech. Their army has more people than ours and are just as well trained. If we ever had to go in there we would get our asses handed to us IMO.
But thats just me and the rumors going around.
Just threw in some other tidbits, im not gonna rank because obviously its been done to anyones opinion in this thread.
When the US went into Somalia, they didnt show many signs of being good fighters. There were a lot of them, but its not like they demonstrated any marksmanship or anything, just a willingness to continue an attack, no matter how many of them died. I would call that bravery and/or dedication, but I think the drugs that they were using had more to do with it.
The North Koreans... well, the best thing you can say about their army is that unlike the rest of the country, they are eating fairly regularly. But stack them head to head with a company of American infantry, and they're not going to match up well. Give that American company the standard amount of supporting arms that they could expect, and the NK's aren't even going to see daylight. They dont have the equipment, the training (not just training time, but quality), and once they are outside of the range of the artillery that is all aimed at Seoul right now, they dont have much in the way of supporting arms.
BTW, what is the name of: "There is a fighting force in Africa that is supposed to be the best trained force in the world"?
I do, however, agree with you that most of this is opinion. I just dont see the NK army or the Somali's the way you do.