>inb4 what is this?
It's a desk reference for world armed forces by personnel and equipment. There's a general analysis chapter followed by a series of chapters dividing the world into a geoscheme. Each region's chapter opens with regional analysis and closes with an encyclopedia-entry style section on each country. The forces, their basic organization, and their equipment are enumerated.

they scrape Jane's, SIPRI and other news orgs for defence data
it's professional wikipedia for the army, with all the attendant caveats.

funfact: when the Falklands War broke out, Argentina was so far off the average British junior officer's radar that they resorted to the Military Balance to get the gist of what they were up against

Other dadmin here, this thing is $900 from the publisher. Have fun with it.

Edit: the 1-3% of you OSINT faggots in here will love this

My roommate posted this and is upset because I said I hate poor people more than I hate cops.

Only 17? What happened to the 18th round did dipshit fucking missed?

Ofcr Stacy💅 doesn't carry one in the chamber?

How many Stacy's Mom jokes do you think he's heard growing up?

"I'm so tired of sig haters bro. This clearly is intentional. The Army uses high caliber rounds that have more pressure, so Sig had to add a space for excess gas to be vented. Maybe if u armchair gunsmiths actually went to the Sonoran Desert Institute like me, you'd know better"

Fun fact:

- the losses during the American civil war (the most bloody conflict in american history) are around 620'000 people...and most of them died of disease.
This battle alone had more losses. In an age where the greatest European powers couldn't muster more than 80.000 men, these people were fighting in the millions.......... 💀💀💀

- The General Bai Qi murdered so many people over the course of his career he got the nickname Ren Tu (人屠; literally "Human Butcher"), killed almost 5% of ENTIRE China also he never lost a battle for over 30 years, taken more than 70 enemy castles. But he got team killed by minister thus losing his "High Score" in history. 🗿🗿🗿

- The Qin dynasty was known as the land of tigers and wolves. They established a ranking system 1-20 where you rank up by bringing back the heads of enemies. They turned their kingdom into an MMO.