Top 9 strongest militaries in the world: Know India’s ranking 2024

Top 9 strongest militaries in the world: Know India’s ranking 2024

Indeed, military strength covers a wide range of aspects from the size, quality, and preparedness of the armed forces through the quantity and sophistication of the accompanying weapons and equipment even on to the budget but also national resources that are earmarked for defense, geopolitical influence and alliances of the country in question, or finally the strategic objectives that underpin military doctrine. The different sources may have used different methods and criteria to rank the military powers of the nations, thus causing variations and discrepancies. One of the most far-reaching and widely cited, however, is the Global Firepower (GFP) index - in which 145 countries are assessed based on more than 60 individual factors that comprise not onlymanpower but airpower, land forces, naval forces, logistics, finances, and geography. Each country is given a PowerIndex rating using the GFP index and nations with the lower scores are deemed to have stronger military capabilities. Table …