Throughout the world, currently who are the top ten Armed Forces?
2007-11-09 07:05:56 · 10 answers · asked by Aman 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Lets take all the factors in consideration...supplies, soldiers, budget, etc.
2007-11-09 07:13:19 · update #1
In terms of "total firepower", meaning a combination of personnel, finances, imports and exports, inventory, and logistics (ability to move their military).
It does NOT take quality of equipment, experience, and nukes into consideration.
1 United States - (see below)
2 Russia - Lots of old but still effective equipment, huge producer of oil, huge exporter of arms.
3 China - Huge manpower, large spending power.
4 India - Pretty good all around
5 Germany - Excellent industry and mobility, also good all around.
6 France - Works with Germany so much they might as well be the same military.
7 Japan - HUGE spending power, good mobility.
8 Turkey - Good inventories
9 Brazil - Decent strength, very mobile.
10 Great Britain - Can sustain itself on oil, big importer/exporter.
The United States vastly leads in Air Force and Navy size and strength, Missile defense systems (anti-tank/air missiles), Cross Country mobility (Equipment Transportation), total # of Airports, imports and exports, and total military expenditure. Russia has about twice as much armor such as tanks and APCs as us, remember they were planning on rolling over Europe for a long time. We also have very little infantry support systems (mortars, personal anti-tank missiles) and artillery in comparison to Russia, China, Iran, or France, and import much more oil than we produce. Our total number of manpower is only behind China and India, who have well over 1 billion citizens each, where we only have 1/4 of a billion.
Israel is # 26 between Sweden and Greece. While it is true they have a shitload of armor and well trained troops and good equipment, they don't really have good manpower, they have next to no navy, and a small air force. Also, my source states that training is not taken into consideration, due to it being hard to rank beyond how much the military spends on it.
2007-11-09 07:14:42 · answer #1 · answered by Todd 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1. United States- Willing to do the dirty work no one else will, huge budget, high technology and training, they lead in almost every catagory except size
2. Israel- Loads of expirence, high technology, fighting for existance
3. China- Size and Russian support through Technology
4. Russia- Size, Technology, Training, and a need to be # 1
5. Great Britian- Disciplined, Expirienced, Well Trained
6. Brazil- Size and Training
7. India- Size and Nuclear Aresonal
8. Austrailia- Supported by British with technology and training
9. Brazil- South America's biggest power
10. Terror Organizations- Size, willingness to die for cause
2007-11-09 07:45:33 · answer #2 · answered by Tip 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
#3USA ...
#2Russia...We are on a big spending increase and buying lots of new equipment. Now we are also expand our contract army, giving lots of professional Officers and NCO's to provide the backbone.
#3 PRC. Large, decent, but not great equipment
#4 DPKR Large, very dedicated and disciplined. But very poor equipment.
#5 Britan. High quality everything, just not large.
#6 France Ditto Above
#7 German Ditto Above
#8 South Africa. They have good equipment and good training.
#9 Brazil. Medicore quality, good numbers.
#10 Canada. Very well trained and very disciplined. But small.
2007-11-09 08:18:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My opinion: 1.USA. 2. PRC 3. Great Britain 4. North Korea 5.Israel(They may not be as big in numbers but they are bada@@es!) 6.Russia 7. France(only cause they have Nukes) 8. South Korea 9.Austrailia 10. India.......Now that I've read this over there are some miscues, but it only matters to me who's #1!
2007-11-09 07:17:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
US China Russia Israel UK Germany N. Korea France Japan Italy
2016-04-03 04:12:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In terms of what? Number of soldiers? Number of Planes/ Ships? Technologically advanced weaponry?
2007-11-09 07:13:07 · answer #6 · answered by booman17 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How are you ranking them? Each country might think they are the best. You would have to rank them by budget or size, something like that.
2007-11-09 07:09:50 · answer #7 · answered by B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Todd nice list but you left off Israel. I can tell you from first hand experience they are among the elite.
2007-11-09 07:17:40 · answer #8 · answered by 2nd AD/ 4th ID 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have to agree Israel should be up there even though they are not big. They can kick some **** in the air.
2007-11-09 07:40:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
US Marine Corps is #1
All the rest are afterwards
2007-11-09 07:29:33 · answer #10 · answered by Empress Jan 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋