An algorithm-based ranking of the world’s foremost military powers taking into account over 50 different factors to determine each country’s position.
Quantity and quality of armaments, while important, are supplemented by equally important evaluations of training, combat readiness, overseas military bases, defensive infrastructure and fortifications among many other assets considered.
Strategic and tactical nuclear capabilities, due to the extreme caution with which they must be deployed and states’ general refrain from using them, are considered a limited asset rather than the decisive game changer they would be if employed freely.
Nuclear powers are marked accordingly in the right hand column. Due to their highly secretive nature, biological warfare capabilities are not taken into consideration.
As well as ranking states numerically, military powers are also divided into six tiers based on the league in which their military capabilities lie.
Those countries in the same tier can be considered near peer competitors, although the kinds of strengths and capabilities they field can be entirely different.
Outstanding strengths of each country, if any, are listed below their names, as are links to further information for each country’s aerial, naval and ground warfare capabilities.
This is a screen shot of the interactive presentation of the top 60 countries in the world
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