Infantry Units What are the relative sizes of the named units? By Deane Barker • October 25, 2021 • It varies from service to service, country to country, and era to era, but I found this listing of U.S. Army unit sizes (PDF) in the late 20th century: Army: 100,000 Corps: 30,000+ Division: 15,000+ Brigade: 4,500 Regiment: 1,500 Battalion: 700 Company: 175 Platoon: 40 Squad: 10 Note that “an Army” (the top-most division) is not “The Army.” When we speak of the Army, we mean every single person in the Army. But an Army is a subdivision of that. The Army actually consists of multiple armies. The U.S. Army itself has a multimedia tool that lets you click through descriptions of the sizes (but it’s hard to link into). The differences between the list above are: The Army adds a “Team” to the bottom, consisting of four people. (My personal experience confirms this: I served as a medic in a Marine Corps platoon, and the smallest unit was a four-person “Fire Team.”) The Army subdivides the topmost unit into: Field Army (90,000) Army Group (400,000) Army Region (1,000,000+; it notes that this only happens during a time of war) The Army doesn’t include “Regiment.” There is the concept of a Regiment in the U.S. Army, but it seems to be more of an administrative construct, not a deployable unit. For the UK, I cobbled together the following list from multiple sources. It’s very close to the U.S. structure: Division Brigade Regiment Battalion Company Platoon Section There doesn’t seem to be any mnemonic to this. You just have to memorize them, I guess. Why I Looked It Up I was reading a history of World War 1, and the unit sizes are used constantly. I couldn’t figure out what was big and what was small, and what was bigger or smaller than anything else.