To put into perspective: South Korea declared Martial Law during the end of 2024 which was short lived as their citizens were awake, not asleep (a similar thing occurred in 1980 that lasted until 1987) so they know what their parents have been through back then not letting it slide in modern times which was met with stiff resistance & protest from Gen Z Koreans.
Their president was impeached after he enacted it as he’s abusing his power via blocking legislators by using both law enforcement and the military averting them from entering their national assembly, including him ordering the arrest of both the judges and supreme court justices whilst illegally declaring martial law (all in which violate their constitution).
Let’s not forget as well that not all those active troops are going to likely to be deployed as they’re responsible for logistics and tech of the military which would be needed even more in such a situation.
Yep! I may not have been explicit enough, but yeah, the 5.6M troops is solely for peacekeeping, none of the ancillary work that has to be done in order to keep materiel flowing to where it’s needed.
What do you think, another 2-3x more for support roles? It’s been a while since I was in the military but I remember that most everyone was some sort of support for the various combat roles.