what is the most powerful army in the world?

Answer 1

Well it depends on how you approach and interpret this question. If you mean powerful by means of mass and size, then hands down it is China, as they are the largest military in the world, topping out over one million personnel. If you are meaning powerful in terms of effectiveness, technology, and size, then I would said it would be the United States. Given our size (I believe total military personnel is at something like 500,000 currently), we are the most effective and technologically advanced military in the world. I am in the Military Police and can tell you that daily we are updating and re-evaluating our tactics and resources. China poses a great threat, however, I believe in a toe-to-toe war we would eventually win. I say this because China is just now starting to multi-train their soldiers. What this means is that they are currently operating on a modified Russian tactic for military training. The Russians would train each soldier on one thing and one thing only. For instance, you might be the radio operator and that is all that you do. You know nothing about deploying grenades or mines or mine detection. Thus, if I wanted to eleminate communications I just need to eleminate you, as you are the only one trained to operate the radio. China does something similar to this. Typically they will train their soldiers in radio operations, mine detection, etc. as well as their specific job (such as tanks, infantry, and the sort). The United States, however, trains our soldiers to be effecient in a little bit of everything. A U.S. soldier can fire a weapon, knows a little about infantry tactics, can detect mines, deploy grenades and mines, operate a radio, etc. What I mean is that the U.S. soldier is not an expert on one thing, but rather is effecient in a multitude of tasks. China is now realizing that to be effective in a toe-to-toe long-standing war, they must begin training in this same fashion.

So, being biast to my own military, I would have to vote that the United States is the most powerful military in the world. I know many people say China simply because they outnumber us in soldiers 10:1, but the number is not what counts. What matters is the effectiveness of your soldier. Our soldiers are trained to do the job of typically three or four soldiers, thus we really have trained our smaller sized military to do the job of a military the size of China, if not bigger.

Personally, I think it would be a very difficult war to win against China, although I think we would succeed. Let's just hope we never have to find out. I hope this answers your question!

Answer 2

United States

Answer 3

This question is really open to interpretation. As was mentioned "army" traditionally means ground forces. But I would really have to say that it all depends on what kind of combat you are looking at. Israel has one of the best trained armies in the world but is held back by its size. China has one of the most populous armies in the world, but isn't the most highly trained. The United States has one of the most technologically advanced and well rounded armies. You must also realize that different nations train their armies for different situations. Take for example the US of A. Our army was trained to fight a soviet threat up until just recently, therefore faced problems when it came to a counter-insurgency operation. You should realize that an army is not just foot soldiers and light infantry. Also you must realize that many people consider an army to be a nation's entire armed forces. Please clarify your question so that you can recieve a better response.

Answer 4

Pakistan army is considered third
It's commandos are first
Airforce third
Navy fourth
ARMY 3rd
on top is US and second is China
some of the employees of the intelligence agencies of pakistan says that after US ( two or three years hardly) Pakistan will be next super power of the world
It has many things and great technologies but they have hided it from the world when The world will see they will be surprised that all these stuff belong to PAKISTAN!!
PAKISTAN ARMY ZINDABAD

Answer 5

We have to salute the army people, because they serves as a critical component of the military forces around the world.One of the biggest army is People's Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF), China & deploying about 1.25 million active troops.

Answer 6

Strictly Army, which traditionally means ground forces, would be China. They don't have much of an Air Force, or a Navy, but they do have 600,000,000 people ready to serve since China has compulsory 2 years of military service. Every year 25,000,000 people enter the army.

Tactically the US would have the strongest if all branches of the service are included.

Both the US and China have countless desturctive power with nukes, so that factor cancels itself.

Answer 7

Interesting question. Largest army would be China (or North Korea?) but the most powerful , which means with the most "punch" (not counting Air and Naval services) must be the US, although pound for pound one might say Israel.:)

Answer 8

In the silent background sits Korea with it's one million man army and who knows what else in their 'hush hush' defenses. Based on what we currently know right now it appears that we are tops but other countries have their secret weapons as well.

Answer 9

Salvation army

Answer 10

The U.S we spend more now then when we were in the cold war on weapons.
china cant feed its people never mind supply its army.