2011 World Military Strength Ranking released (Top 20)

reply to post by CountDrac


You se this is how I know you know *snip* all. America isn't even first these days, yes they have the highes budget for military operations but also at the same time their costs are high. China is the world super power now which is why the US never agitate them. The US is due to go bust any day now, Russia is just as broke. Please come back when you have more than feelings i.e. facts

Did you even know that Russia spends less on its military than the UK yet it has at least 40 times the mass area.?




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I think numbers play a good part, but what it really comes down to is number plus strategy, that is VERY hard to measure..... and as for technology, I don't think that can be properly measured at all, because a lot of the tech that would give armies an advantage can be easily gotten, imo.

reply to post by michael1983l


Not true. China has the largest standing army but you need to project that power. Ie: Navy and Air Force. China lags behind there. India is actually stronger there.

reply to post by michael1983l


Are you kidding?
You think china is anywhere close to the US and Russia. They have been world military powers for decades. Add to that the vast knowledge and experience they have in war, china doesn’t even come close.

China just started building an army after ww2 when Japan destroyed their country and their so-called army has yet to be tested in the world arena and in real war. It hasn’t …

reply to post by CountDrac


yes, in my opinion china is a VERY scary country to be at war with, nukes aside, they would seem very formidable, i read somewhere(ill have to find it) that the women in their army alone outnumber our troops(usa)...

reply to post by intrepid


Really, you are that naieve? China has just completed the worlds biggest aircraft carrier and has been building up their military for years. It is actually quite sad how the general American population still thinks that they rule the roost. Your *snip* get over it.


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Originally posted by intrepid
It's not, "Make love, not war" anymore. It's "Make war, only with those with a marginal military."

you forgot to add " and oil "

reply to post by michael1983l


I'm not American dude. I do call them as I see them though. The US IS #1. For how long that remains to be seen. Russia has gotten a HUGE influx of money due to crude reserves. China is still up and coming. I honestly think that India is ahead of them on the world stage. "People power" only gets you so far. Then tech comes into play and China isn't there............ yet.

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agreed and people forget that china's new army (since ww2) has yet to be tested in the world arena and in real war.…

China has the worlds biggest army i believe. but apparently russia is better for what reason?

Ah well Eire's forces are few but spirited,
nearly as many as Qatar but they'd still have em' in a straight scrap ive no doubt.

Found a site for china in general, but this section breaks down their army www.chinatoday.com...

reply to post by shadowreborn89


China’s army might be big but that means nothing. It was never tested and does not have warfare experience.

Look at the wars Israel fought. They were outnumbered 20-1 in three wars, fighting several countries in a few fronts and won each time.

France and especially the UK shouldnt even be in the top 50. Look at how retarded they are performing in Libya right now. At this point its only the United States navy preventing Libya from invading and occupying both of those weaksauce countries.

you know what situation really makes the us number one? is if the us was invaded, then the invaders would have to deal with our military and everyone that has a gun lol, so in that aspect that makes us formidable

It's no wonder Australia is so eager to help out the likes of the US and Britian. We don't even rank in the top 20.

What will happen to the mighty US when it has no more money to throw at their military. Seems to me that they are too busy fighting everyone elses wars rather than looking after their own people.

Cannot remember if it was globalresearch.ca, but I coulda sworn Israel was 4th.


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Basically, when you get into the numbers…..
The US has the largest navy and air force
Russia has the largest ground army.

Everyone else goes a step down from there.

The thing that the US (and other NATO countries to a lesser extent) has, that goes beyond the numbers is the majority of the troops are “combat hardened” which is a big force multiplier.
As the old saying goes, the battle plan goes out the window after the first shots are fired!”

One item of note, India comes in with the second largest ground force based on numbers, but that is mainly due to the large number of anti tank weapons they have.

The thing I find fascinating is Taiwan!
A little island nation, yet they come in right behind Germany!
Talk about a little island stacked to the brim with firepower!

If Taiwan ever decided to pick a fight with Canada, and Australia… At the same time…. Then the people in ausi land and the frozen north better study up on their Taiwanese.

Heck, Taiwan could make a decent assault on china!.

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China has a massive spy network, im sure they know lots of the tech...plus Israel sold them American stealth technology as well, also close with Russia. China has been building up it's military, just not in the same rampant fashion we saw with America and the soviet union, but China has the technology and industrial capacity to become one hell of a conventional war machine in a very short amount of time if they wished to(excluding nukes). China of course still has many poor people and lack of public infrastructure, there is a large middle class growing but still the majority are poor, i think in the next two/three decades or so that will change drastically......so focusing on that and using its economic might in Africa and South America is more logical right now than wasting money trying to rival America militarily for no reason.

reply to post by michael1983l


go to wikilinks, type in aircraft carrier, and go ahead and educate yourself about the owners of the largest fleet of Carriers and Battleships in the world, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of professionally trained sailors and technicians along with the most advanced technology the world has to offer, YOU all on the china high need to wake up and educate yourself, any talk of another superpower being "stronger" is completely uncredible as the united states has been the creator of all modern military doctrines, along with the most advanced training programs for a variety of different skills and professions, as well as having had years to integrate the latest technology into our current units and doctrines, and on top of having an army of soldiers who grew up familiar with technology in there everyday lives, being 100% comfortable with it.America is at the head militarily for the moment, sorry to let all of you anti-american pessimists down but the real propoganda is claiming threats that arent threats at all.

The United States Navy has the world's largest carrier fleet with eleven supercarriers in service, one under construction and two more planned.

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the U.S. navies main carries is the Nimitz, and we have ten.

Nimitz class: ten 101,000 ton nuclear-powered supercarriers, the first of which was commissioned in 1975. A Nimitz class carrier is powered by two nuclear reactors and four steam turbines and is 1,092 feet (333 m) long.

A total of 22 aircraft carriers in active service are maintained by nine navies. In addition, the People's Republic of China's Navy possesses the former Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag. Australia, Brazil, France, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom, United States and the People's Republic of China also operate vessels capable of carrying and operating multiple helicopters.

plus on top of the largest carrier fleet we also employ the largest and most technologically advanced defense contractors in the world!

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The three largest defense companies in the world are all United States companies. With a combined total revenue in 2001 of $100 billion and employing 400,000 people, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing are three powerhouses of American business. Their combined revenues account for 1% of the United States' $10 trillion GDP.[ii] Each company is on each of the Fortune lists: America’s Most Admired Companies, Global Most Admired Companies, Fortune 500 and Global 500.[iii] Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing are also the three top arms-producing companies in the world. To scope this paper is to examine to what extent these three companies depend on their arms sales in general and their arms sales to foreign governments in particular, and to evaluate how these companies would fare if the wars they are faced with in the future are fought with economics instead of aircraft and missiles. In the first section of this paper, company-specific financial analysis is examined and in the second section of this paper, the US arms industry as a whole is considered. After considering the global parameters of the arms industry, the future prospects of Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing are qualitatively considered.

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on top of all that we also employ one of the most powerful armored fighting vehicles in the world!
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oh and my favorite, the lockheed f-35 !
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and it takes a little more than know how to mass produce tanks and fighters like that and be able to deploy units on a global scale, we have literally thousands, not to mention the other armored troop transports and air to ground fighters, and there are literally so many more reasons as to why the United States dominates the military field.


now in defense of the naysayers, there is one thing lacking in the United States military wich is its greatest weakness, and its our leaders. but that is speculative, figuratively speaking the U.S. IS the most powerful military in the world hands down, numbers do not matter in the battlefields of today, its technology, cohesion and communications betweens units, and capable logistics. i would argue china has barely touched the surface of these aspects and to claim they are a world military superpower is rediculous, now a regional superpower, definetly. fully untouchable in there own court.but for anybody seriously speclating weakness right now in our over-funded military you need to do your research! nukes arent everything either and we still wield more than any other country!!

The United States currently operates 450 ICBMs in three USAF bases. The only model deployed is LGM-30G Minuteman-III.

better stop myself