The escalation of tension between Russia and Ukraine highlights the importance of having a strong military deployment. We show you the countries with the most outstanding armies on the planet.
The conflict between Ukraine and Russia has the world in tension these days. While NATO announced that its allies are putting their forces on "alert status" and sending additional warships and warplanes to eastern Europe to reinforce the eastern flank, Moscow is piling up Russian troops on the Ukraine border. This situation once again highlights the importance of having large-scale military resources, both in terms of equipment and personnel.
The company GlobalFirepower (GFP) has analyzed 140 military powers providing a unique analytical visualization of that data. This classification analyzes the potential war capacity of each nation on land, sea, and air, in combat by conventional means. The results incorporate values related to labor, equipment, natural resources, finances, logistics capacity, and geography, represented by more than 50 individual factors. These rankings provide an interesting insight into an increasingly volatile global landscape where the emergence of one or more wars seems almost inevitable.
This analysis formula allows smaller and more technologically advanced countries to compete with larger and less developed nations. In this sense, special modifiers are applied, in the form of bonuses and penalties, to further refine the annual list, comparing trends year after year to see its evolution.
Starting from a perfect rating set at 0 points --which is realistically unattainable within the scope of the current GFP formula--, the lower the value on the index, the more powerful a nation's theoretical combat capability, having considered only conventional means since nuclear capacity is not included in this analysis.
The United States is confirmed as the power with the most powerful army in the world, obtaining a score of 0.0453, above Russia and China, very even, with 0.0501 and 0.511 points, respectively. In fourth place is the second most populous country on the planet, India, ahead of two other Asians: Japan and South Korea.
8. The United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is ranked eighth among the most powerful armies in the world, with a score of 0.1382.
7. France
After the various data analyzed by Global Firepower, France is the seventh most powerful army on the planet, with 0.1283 points.
6. South Korea
With 0.1261 points, South Korea is in sixth place in this ranking.
5. Japan
After analyzing more than 50 individual factors, Japan obtained a score of 0.1195.
4. India
India's potential warfare capability on land, sea, and air in combat by conventional means ranks India fourth with a rating of 0.0979 points.
3. Chinese
The most populous country in the world also has a very powerful military, with a score of 0.0511.
2. Russia
Russia occupies the second position in this ranking with a score of 0.0501 points.
1. the United States
The United States holds the first place of the 140 countries analyzed in this ranking, with a score of 0.0453, the closest to the valuation of 0, which is considered "perfect".
