to the costa rico answer, they do have a military. as a usa territory their military is the usa military, significant numbers of costa ricans serve in our military. otherwise as far as offensive capibilities it would be usa, then russia, a tie between china(never won a modern military battle) and north korea(n. korea has more troops thanthe usa and manufactures all their own weapons big and small thanks to decades of u.n. sanctions,since the 50-53 war) then a close one between india and pakistan, india is stronger in conventional forces with a pool of over 1.2 billion people to draw from , but making that moot with the equal nuclear capabilities of longtime foe pakistan. janes, a defense magizine will give more details of these statistics.
to gunny below me, saying that china has french weopons, they dont have any modern french weapons no nato country can sell to china and has just won approval again in nato to deny china weapons purchasing rights based on human rights abuses, this stemmed from tianimen square when china butchered unarmed students protesting for democracy, the west quickly cut off military purchases leaving china with mainly russia for a defense partner.
2007-08-08 11:34:44
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answered by snafu_as_usual 2
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1. Russia (long range nukes)
2. China (Massive Manpower)
3. India (see above)
4. Pakistan (billions of dollars of US aid)
5. North Korea
6. Iran
2007-08-10 13:22:58
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answered by calmflow_21 3
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Of those choices at this point in time it would be the Russians; this is based on numbers and technical advancement of the weapons. I am not including the strategic WMD's in this but looking the remainder of the military. The Chinese would be second based on pure manpower. The Chinese military is; however, sizing down in total manpower but greatly improving the technical advancement of the weapons by purchasing advanced Russian, French and other weapons then, in many cases reverse engineering them to manufacture within there country. This will make them a much more dangerous adversary and greater military power. I would predict that in a few (five to ten) years the rankings will change and the Chinese will be the number one power in that group. If you are including strategic nuclear the weapons the Russians will remain the primary power for a much longer period of time.
2007-08-08 11:35:16
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answered by GunnyC 6
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Russia
2007-08-09 02:36:15
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answered by ? 2
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Russia or China. Russia contains many nuclear weapons and China has the most troops.
2007-08-08 11:24:23
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answered by matt14.pats 2
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China is the REAL answer to your question. When Beelza-Bubba Clinton was Prez, He GAVE China gyros so their rockets would fly straight. (1993 or 1994) They promised it would ONLY be used for their Space Program. Anybody but me thinks there is a check in the mail?
2007-08-12 11:42:44
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answered by Anonymous
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it form of feels that the human beings are hell bent upon growing to be yet another comparable challenge as they did interior the previous due 1970's in Iran, their staunchest best pal in Asia and now Pakistan yet another staunch best pal is being pushed against the wall to combat American conflict on that's soil.a number of those terrorists are a CIA created,knowledgeable,armed & financed communities, they have been "good" boys as long as they killed the Soviets and undesirable boys whilst they became their weapons to their masters ! What an understatement. i'm between the very professional-American Pakistani's yet whilst the U. S. have been to attack my us of a I assure you that I would be amoungst the 1st to grow to be a suicide bomber against them.
2016-12-11 14:25:33
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answered by ? 4
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Of your list I would say Russia then China.
2007-08-08 11:30:26
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answered by Michelle 3
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Switzerland
2007-08-16 05:14:03
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answered by Anonymous
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China has the largest military in the world but the U.S. has the most advanced, if not the best.
2007-08-08 11:26:46
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answered by Anonymous
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