Which country is a military power?

Recently, Global Firepower - a website that tracks military- related information about countries around the world - published a ranking of the military strength of 145 countries.

Soldiers in the US Marine Corps. The US is the world's most powerful military power in 2024, according to Global Firepower. (Source: US Marine Corps)

According to the new rankings, the US is the top country in terms of military power in 2024, with a power index of 0.0699.

Next are Russia and China with military strength indexes of 0.0702 and 0.0706 respectively.

In addition to the top 3, the next positions in the top 10 are India, South Korea, UK, Japan, Türkiye, Pakistan and Italy.

In this group, the US, Russia, China, India and Italy maintain stable rankings compared to 2023. South Korea, Japan and Türkiye move up in the rankings while the UK and Pakistan drop in the rankings compared to 2023.

Indonesia is the highest-ranked Southeast Asian country in the new index, coming in 13th with an index score of 0.2251. This is higher than countries like Israel and Germany (ranked 17th and 19th respectively).

Indonesia's main defense strength is its military, which is reported to be 1,050,000 strong, including 400,000 active personnel. In 2023, the Global Firepower rankings also ranked Indonesia 13th.

Vietnam is ranked 22nd in this latest ranking, with a power index of 0.3158.

The Global Firepower military strength rankings take into account more than 60 factors such as equipment sophistication, finances, geography and resources...

The rankings only assess militaries from a conventional perspective, not taking into account a country's ability to carry out a nuclear strike, its military's training and education, its intelligence services, or the effectiveness of its military command structure.

The rating scale is reflected through the military power index (PwrIndx), in which the perfect index is 0.0000, the lower the index reflects the higher the country's conventional combat capability.

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