The major military powers, by firepower

Bertrand Russel argued that military might did not determine who was right or back, but only who stayed after the war. Unfortunately, this makes the strength of the armies and nations behind them an essential element of world politics.

Thanks to the Global Firepower ranking we try to show you, visually, the world ranking for 2022. Obviously it is a theoretical ranking, a bit like fantasy football.

The final Global Firepower ranking below uses over 50 individual factors to determine a particular nation's PowerIndex (“PwrIndx”) score with categories ranging from military and financial strength to logistical capability and geography. Because modern warfare is no longer the nineteenth-century one which depended above all on the number of men, but is made up of productive capacity, technology, the possibility of always maintaining an active army, well armed and ready for action, however small.

The formula used by the site allows smaller, more technologically advanced nations to compete with larger, less developed ones, and special modifiers, in the form of bonuses and penalties, are applied to further refine the annual list. The colored arrows indicate the comparison of trends year over year

And now the positions, moving from the strongest to the weakest. In the index, the value 0.000 is that of absolute power

Italy is in thirteenth position after Pakistan, which is, let us remember, a nuclear power. Obviously in the first places there are the USA, Russia and China. India has considerable human and industrial potential. I think many will be amazed by the position of Japan and South Korea, which, let us remember, are industrial and technological giants.

If you want direct, potential, significant clashes, here are China and Taiwan:

Where the advantage of Taiwan is economic and technological, but insufficient to compensate for the Chinese enormity;

Ukraine and Russia

Where Russian power overwhelms Ukraine, which is still in a good position

And finally Greece and Turkey

Which of these theoretical clashes would be, perhaps, the most balanced. However, in general, best avoided. Armies and plans are always perfect, until they meet the enemy on the battlefield.

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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/le-maggiori-potenze-militari-per-potenza-di-fuoco/ on Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:42:02 +0000.