Monday, December 08, 2008

Soft Power Metric

The United States has more members of military marching bands than it has foreign service officers.

That's per Defense Secretary Robert Gates, per the Lawrence (KS) Daily Journal, per Underbelly's crack Kansas Bureau (link)., Thanks, John.
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MJH said...

Hard Power Metric:

The third largest airforce is privately (US) owned warbirds.

Admittedly, it's heavy on WWII / Korean era planes. But still. Bigger than China.

10:29 PM

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