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Ok ok, my final point/summation of everything is that intelligence is the most important aspect to any military. In regard to my comment about manpower, I took it as though you said that manpower does not matter to any military, to which I disagree. It's not the most important factor, but I believe it to be a key factor in an effective military. If it weren't so, then why would armies need recruiting quotas? You can have the nuttiest weapons available and all the updated BOS for them, but what good is it if you have depleted manpower?
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Firstly, I think you've got the wrong idea of what a BOS is. It is a battle operating system. There are lots of different ones;
CSS - Combat Service Support (including catering through to POL)
C3 - Command, Control and Communications (from batteries for your radios through to divisional command)
ISR- Intel, Surveillance and Recon (exactly what it sounds like)
They go on and on. Basically it is a way of categorising every part of the military, and it is used as part of the IMAP process.
As for man power, I dunno how many times I'm going to tell people this. Man power, in the end doesn't mean jack if you know how to exploit the weakness of your enemy. It also comes down to the
Fighting Power of your army as well, which I have explained before in other posts. It doesn't mean "we've got 300 Abrams, and 5000 grunts ready to rock and roll. It means the balance between Moral Authority, Knowledge, and Firepower (once again this doesn't mean manpower).
I won't go into it in too much depth because it is all fairly high level staff planning analytical type stuff, but worth thinking about rather than just numbers. History proves numbers don't do it.