If the United States were to get ranked on a power scale of 1 - 10....1 being the least powerful and 10 being the most powerful...the United States would get a rating of about 12!!!.. The next closest country would get a rating of about 6..Reading this link and find out why...
http://iona.ghandchi.com/brooks.htm
2006-07-30 15:02:27 · 12 answers · asked by quarterback 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
To understand just how dominant the United States is today, one needs to look at each of the standard components of national power in succession. In the military arena, the United States is poised to spend more on defense in 2003 than the next 15-20 biggest spenders combined. The United States has overwhelming nuclear superiority, the world's dominant air force, the only truly blue-water navy, and a unique capability to project power around the globe. And its military advantage is even more apparent in quality than in quantity. The United States leads the world in exploiting the military applications of advanced communications and information technology and it has demonstrated an unrivaled ability to coordinate and process information about the battlefield and destroy targets from afar with extraordinary precision. Washington is not making it easy for others to catch up, moreover, given the massive gap in spending on military research and development (R&D), on which the United States spends three times more than the next six powers combined. Looked at another way, the United States currently spends more on military R&D than Germany or the United Kingdom spends on defense in total.
These are not just facts about the current system; they are recognized as such by the major players involved. As a result, no global challenge to the United States is likely to emerge for the foreseeable future. No country, or group of countries, wants to maneuver itself into a situation in which it will have to contend with the focused enmity of the United States.
Magnanimity and restraint in the face of temptation are tenets of successful statecraft that have proved their worth from classical Greece onward. Standing taller than leading states of the past, the United States has unprecedented freedom to do as it pleases. It can play the game for itself alone or for the system as a whole; it can focus on small returns today or larger ones tomorrow. If the administration truly wants to be loved as well as feared, the policy answers are not hard to find.
2006-07-30 15:12:22 · answer #1 · answered by yars232c 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I've watched the military channel, seen other countries power, and listened to my uncle's war stories of classified info. I'd have to say If the world was against us, we could take 'em. And to the guy with the 9/11 response, why dont you go into a burning pit of fire. Thats not funny, 9/11 was a tremendoous impact upon our nation
2006-07-30 15:13:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not as powerful as it could be due to its fickle, lazy and greedy civilian population. Some of the military battles we have fought and predicaments that we find ourselves in today, are due to the lack of vigilance in the past, when they could have been handled with less (or no) bloodshed.
Our might could be used as a direct instrument for peace and prosperity, instead of having to crawl out of a hole militarily before we can do any good.
2006-07-30 15:22:40 · answer #3 · answered by electricpole 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amweica is the most powerful. I also think that a rating of 12 is way too low. I would give them a rating of 10000000000000
2016-03-27 07:42:15 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well we won world war two .you tell me,if we unleashe are military and let the military handle things and leave the politians out i think this whole mess would be over with,in world war two we did what we had to do to end the war.sadly enough we did kill inocent people we bombed germany into submission .you cant fight a war unless you go in with attitude we're going to strike hard and fast no stopping till its over with it doesnt work that way into days way of thinking,if we had tried deplomacy in ww2 we d be speaking german or perhaps japanese just the way it is man
2006-07-30 15:12:12 · answer #5 · answered by craig s 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
As far as military might-beyond comprehension.As far as social and political influence-under present leadership(?)absolute zero.
2006-07-30 15:18:51 · answer #6 · answered by jimbo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
US of A is passing the torch to China.
Record deficit, massive reliance on imported oil.
2006-07-30 15:08:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Powerful Enough To FAKE 9/11 so no one would question it
2006-07-30 15:05:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
Yes look at Vietnam - power is about more than weapons.
2006-07-30 18:24:19 · answer #9 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I think the US are powerful but they have lost the right to call themselves a superpower back when they started to stick their noses into places where it was not wanted.They have lost a lot a respect and when they lost to the Vietnamese i think that was when they lost the right to call themselves a superpower.
i would rank them 5 out of 10
2006-07-31 09:06:26 · answer #10 · answered by HHH 6 · 2⤊ 6⤋