According to our helpful friends at statista.com, the country with the largest army (active military personnel) is China with 2,000,000, second place in India with 1,450,000, and third place goes to the USA with 1,390,000 active military personnel. North Korea sits in fourth place with 1,200,000, and Russia makes the top five with an active force of 850,000 active military personnel. There are over 750 US foreign military bases distributed throughout 80 nations! Following the United States is the United Kingdom, which has 145 bases. Russia has roughly a dozen bases, whereas China has only five. It means the United States has three times the number of bases as all other countries combined.