This is a great question and eminently answerable. Maybe one of these days I’ll sit down and crunch the data. There’s more than enough data points to get some idea. https://twitter.com/kickynew/status/1223690259487170571 …
Or take something like the Roman response to the Illyrian revolt. Is that an offensive action - power being projected from Germany/Moesia/Italy, or a defensive one (suppressing a revolt)? It's a huge force concentration.
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And you'd have to focus a single society in a narrow-time frame. It's no good comparing a Roman offensive to a Macedonian defense - those states are working with very different resource pools. You'd need a lot of little case studies to get any kind of sample.
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And even then, what would the numbers tell you? If you had a statistically significant sample of say defending armies being larger, what would that mean? There could be infinite reasons and shades of reasons.
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