Among ordinary people, there was actually a misconception.
People believed that one or two million soldiers was an enormous standing force for a country. Thus, when the Federation carried out its major military downsizing earlier, some people in society who clearly were not thinking straight believed that leaving behind only three to five hundred thousand soldiers would be enough.
The Federal Government could simply save the excess military expenditure and use it in areas related to ordinary people's lives, such as infrastructure or lowering interest rates.
In short, the Federation did not need so many soldiers, nor did it have any use for so many soldiers.
This way of thinking had continued to exist even today. For example, there were still people in society who believed that the Federation's two million soldiers were too many and that there was no need to continue conscription.
The military expenditure was also too high, and much of it was completely unnecessary! It was hard to tell how people who could not even see the international situation clearly had calculated that two million soldiers were too many and that military expenditure was excessive.
In a real, concrete war, one or two million soldiers...
If this were a war fought with cold weapons, then that number really would be too high.
But ladies and gentlemen, this was a war fought with firearms.
The most obvious difference between a firearms war and a cold-weapons war was that more people would die in a firearms war! Technology and invention had enabled humanity to make unprecedented progress in killing its own kind.
Even at a distance of one or two hundred meters, one did not need to exert much force to pull the trigger before potentially taking a human life!
Especially in jungle and urban warfare, where individual