Greatest modern army?

I find it bad to say any person in any army is weak minded or in weak spirit. I was in the American army for 11 years in Desert Storm,Somalia,Kosovo and Afgahnistan. We may have hated where we were and wanted to go home but when the mission time came or your life was on the line we were ready and very very capable of handling anything. The bonding and friendships made you fight to protect out of instinct and pride. "In the heat of battle it ceases to be an idea for which we fight. Or a flag. Rather we fight for the man on our left, and we fight for the man on our right. And when armies are scattered and the empires fall away, all that remains is the memory of those precious moments that we spent sided by side."

The complexities of war are so overshadowed by a couple mishaps. A plane my get shot down or crash from malfunction but this is after how many sorties? A convoy may run into trouble or get ambushed yet we forget about the 1000's of other succesful ones. We could kill 70-100 of the enemy but if one american is killed its considered a loss in some peoples eyes. Whats funny is that people put down the U.S. but every country in the world right now is taking notes and learning from the U.S. as they do real world things. The same goes with the British and other Nato countries currently down range in Afgahnistan. The flexible structure and training of these armies alow them to adapt and change quite well.

The U.S. army isnt small either. Its not built on manpower however. Our sheer amount of equipment makes it quite impressively large. Look at how many helicopters,tanks,trucks etc it has and its far from small.

Gundamor, what you point out actually is the lack of deciciveness of the american people to go (to sent their boys) to war.

I picked the British because no country accomplished so much with so few.