Marta Gichko07:43, 01/06/23
The top three rankings remained unchanged.
Global Firepower analysts have published an annual ranking of the world’s strongest armies, ranking them based on available firepower.
When forming the rating, experts used more than 60 separate factors to determine the assessment of each country, taking into account the number of military units and financial condition, logistical capabilities, geography and other aspects.
In total, analysts considered the military potential of 145 world powers. There are significant changes in the top twenty this year.
TOP 20 strongest armies in the world:
- USA.
- Russia.
- China.
- India.
- United Kingdom.
- North Korea.
- Pakistan.
- Japan.
- France.
- Italy.
- Turkey.
- Brazil.
- Indonesia.
- Egypt.
- Ukraine.
- Australia.
- Iran.
- Israel.
- Vietnam.
- Poland.
Moldova, Benin and Bhutan became outsiders in the ranking of the most powerful armies in the world.
Ukraine in the ranking of the strongest armies in the world
The Armed Forces of Ukraine gradually improved their positions in the Global Firepower ranking. Last year, Ukraine ranked 22nd among 140 countries, moving up three steps in the ranking of the strongest armies in the world.
In 2021, Ukraine took 25th place, and a year earlier, in 2020, Ukraine took 27th place.
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In the fields of rape, torture, thieving, abduction and inhuman savagery, putlerstan has consolidated its position of number one.
How is NK so high on the list? It’s scrawny, half-starved rabble would be no match for its southern neighbour, whose troops are well-fed, consequently stronger and better equipped.
As for the UK, we are too high on the list unfortunately. We allowed ourselves to shrink it down from 4 million at the end of WW2, down to 120,000 (including Marines but excluding reserves) in 2023. Our leaders firmly believe in quality being able to defeat quantity. Which is right, but only up to a point. The US has approximately four times our population and an army of one million (is that correct?). On that basis, the UK should have 250,000 and that is what we need to aim for immediately.
Our navy needs two more carriers, more subs and more destroyers.
Our Air Force is good, but too small for an island nation.
The UK is this high on the list because it is an island.
They need a lot less troops and equipment to properly defend it.
This list takes geography into account.
The North Sea has been the UK’s greatest asset during World War II.
North Korea is this high for the number of troops. The Global Fire Power Index assumes a war on a nations own soil.
North Korea would absolutely lose a war against South Korea.
But if hypothetically South Korea would invade North Korea, it would be virtually impossible to win if basically every man has a gun, especially because the country is mountainous.
Of course we leave morale out as we don’t know if the North Koreans believe the bullshit they are being told: the index assumes they will fight until the last man.
If they can manage to get their million soldiers (excluding reserves) to fight the country is basically impossible to capture without bombing all of their cities Mariupol style.
God forbid this war to ever happen as it may be one of the deadliest wars ever with Seoul being within artillery range
I can’t take any such list seriously when it still shows the mafia army at number two.
How in gods name are russia No2 on the list, when they are only No2 in Ukraine?
That thing is probably the least scientific list you can think of, just made by some hobbyists scrolling Wikipedia and filling Excel sheets with quantities of equipment and then comparing them with each other.
So a T-90M tank would count as much as an Abram, while nothing about morale, doctrine, the actual condition of equipment is taken into account.
I wouldn’t blame them, as their name already gives away they are mainly comparing firepower. And yes, Russia probably still has the highest number of artillery pieces.
To quote Obama: “just because you have the biggest hammer, it doesn’t mean that every problem is a nail”.
So this list isn’t flawless and is just an attempt to roughly compare armies, and I think they do not even claim they are more than that.
But because there actually is nothing better than this (there is just no way to say which country is the most powerful), the media falsely use the global firepower rankings as such.
For example conditions matter a lot.
My hairdresser is a Kurd and showed me the village his mum lives near Mosul on the tip of a hill. It was in the middle of IS occupied territory, and all they had was a couple of Kalashnikovs and maybe a few ancient howitzers.
He actually went there to help his mum, and when he got there he was given an AK-47 even though he had no combat experience as he is a hairdresser. But no heroic story, he didn’t fire a single bullet as IS did not even dare to come close to the hill as it was so easy to defend as they could see IS coming from many miles away.
Of course IS was many times more powerful than a handful of inexperienced men, but still there was no way they could capture the village.
The village remained free during the entire war.