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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Finland didn't have a small military in the Winter War. In the 90s-00s "era of peace" or something many European countries have all but abolished their militaries and forgot how big they should really be.

Small compared to USSR's, but it was enormous by measure of today's European armies, and you still need a lot of people to control territory today, just like 100 years ago.