You won’t believe how powerful some of these countries are and how much they spend on their military. Even the 20th most powerful military spends over $5 billion USD per year, with over 600,000 troops and an aircraft carrier.
Some countries such as North Korea and Italy are far more powerful than you might think.
This gallery will show the world’s 50 most powerful military forces in the world. We’ll be starting with the 50th most powerful military force and make our way up to number one. Start the slideshow below:
Brush fun to know
A few did surpise me.Interesting article
Really fun to know
WOW THAT IS AWESOME AND REALLY GOOD TO KNOW!
Good read
team USA baby
None of it suprises me, I was born and raised on Army bases. I later married a carrier Army man. So my entire life has revolved around the Army.
Omg
Interesting information.
interesting read
It’s weird to have a smile on my face at the difference in power between 1-50. I’m glad that we aren’t a force for evil. In terms of conquering places, I’m glad we’ve relatively done away with that style of warfare.
Great
even even though they spend all that buy that stuff if the soldiers don’t know how to plan attack kill then all that is waste because 90% of it is how your soldiers trained physically mentally a weapon training
WHAT CAN I SAY, I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!!!
Me too!
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Agree
They all suprised me
Interesting read!
I also feel the same nothing shocking the United States of course would be the strongest in strength and in numbers. TEAM US ALL THE WAY
Neat facts
Some surprised me
WOW!
We could resource so much good with even a small % reduction in overall defence spending.
Very informative and interesting articke.
Some of them surprised me. Chile, South Africa
One of the things that surprised me was how highly ranked Italy was. The other thing that continually surprised me was that the amount of soldiers in comparison to the huge money spent was largely disparate
Interesting
amazing
Wow
Very important to know.
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Very interesting!!
Interesting
No surprises, really.
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Excellent. Read it twice because I didn’t get my diamonds for my game the first time I read it. Please give them to me this time.
I’m not surprised about the US being #1
Interesting
Sounds about right .
Wow
I would like to know how the Global Power index is calculated. I am an Army veteran and want to believe that our fighting forces are the strongest, but it is my understanding that the Chinese army is so massive it must be constantly kept in motion. Granted that is just one faction of how military strength of a country is measured, but it is a big scary one.
Not really surprised, very interesting
I was surprised that South Korea has more military power than North Korea.
Good reading, very interesting to see where each country stands.
Quite informative
Informative information but long article
Awesome history lesson.
Cool
Dope
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This article was very informative
I found it interesting and informative.But not surprising.
I really liked this article. More like this please!!
You’re right!
Great
God bless our military!! Thank you for your services
Interesting information.
Not surprising but pakistan is less why
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gooooood
Good
Nice article enjoyed reading it
Not exactly what I thought
I was very impressed that we, the United States were on a larger scale than I expected us to be. The statistics are very different than I thought.
Some of the countries surprised me but none near the top
All that and humans still change solve the world’s problems
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Nice to know
So cool to read
Iran has Australia detail with it. Spelling mistake in with America info. I’m surprised by Australia.
Very intriqueing
Very interesting
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USA #1. Interesting read.
Hmm.
Interesting
Kk
Nice
USA#no1#
The amounts of money shocked me!
Interesting
Hey
I agree with this
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I was impressed I did not how powerful the United States is and the amount of money really shocked me.
Wow this is very interesting.
The amount of £& surprised me!! Was surprised by a few!!
wild
Interesting
Good to know
Wow that’s a lot to learn from
Wow
I was very surprised at who is the most powerful when it comes to military powers. Also, I found a typo the word “hvae, should be have”. Anyways, this was interesting.
USA all the way.
Well……..who would have thought India was up there with the top 5!! After seeing the poverty in so much of the country it just makes me so sad that governments want metal and ammo over the health and well-being of their citizens!!
I was surprised at the amount of money, $161,000,000,000+, that China spends on military.
Also the picture for Manamar looks like it is all women soldiers. I’m not sure if I was right, but thinking I might be, that surprised me.
Finally, one segmemt started out talking about one country ( I think Thailand) and in the middle changed to Australia.
Excellent article!
I’m very impressed with this article. I had no idea as to the detail and precision each individual country actually went through yo protect their citizens
Wow
Very interesting
Good to know
Proud to be an American for sure. It was interesting to see where each country ranks.
Great article!
Surprised about countries like Ethiopia and India. Not surprised about USA!
Surprise not really
No surprise
Not at all suprised by the United States Military strength. My exhusban was in the Navy. My children are navy brats.
There’s going to be war in the oceans…. How come theres no classification for the submarines? There’s two types one of which is nuclear powered.. it would be interesting to know because advances in energy could prove useful.
USA, USA!! SEMPER FI! OO- RAH. I will say I was surprised that some countries even made this list. But what sets us apart from the rest is without a doubt our aircraft carrier’s. No one comes even close. Also when u have the M1 Abrams as your tank you dont need that many. 1 Abrams is equal to around 5-10 of the other countries thanks. USA!!!!
Very informative and great photos!
Not mug of a surprise.
Glad USA made number 1
We have a lot of practice
Semper Fi
Wow I thought so
I had no idea what the order of power was it was good to gain some knowledge of what they have and what the crazy prices that is involved it . GOOD information and was worth the read.
Interesting article
No surprise here!
Well that saved me $5 and wasted 10 mins of my life..think I lost out…gg btw Merica..winning !
Hmm
No surprise
Canada ranked lower than I expected
The country Maynmara all those women!!!! …
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I was not surprise, how many nukes do the top 10 have.
Awesome information!
Princess
That’s crazy
Nope no surprise but really haven’t thought about.
All I can think about is all the humans who could eat…go to school…live indoors if the $$ was repurposed. I we all could stop fighting amongst ourselves…
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With was so long to read
I was surprised that Isreal and indiawete so high in ranking and that Australia and Canada were so low.
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Wow
So much money that could be spent on better things
Not surprised
USA!
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Have read 3 times now. Still no points. Am I leaving out a step?
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Not all that surprising , some of the initial countries were a much lesser known discussed statistic, last 10 of course more common knowledge
Good
Good info
The one with information on Iran was mixed up with Australia. I am sure it’s a typo. The article was a little surprising. One has to wonder how the number of military assets is available for print in a public forum. But it’s very interesting to note how much money throughout the world is being spent on military.
It doesnt surprise me
Interesting.
Okay
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No surprise here…
Interesting.
Pretty cool
No surprises really.
Nope
I think this is a contrived way of reinforcing US ideologies & political agendas!
Vraiment intéressant. Pas surprise du tout.
Wow
Not surprised.
No surprises here .
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I knew the US spent a lot of money on their military, but I was surprised to see 587.8 trillion. I would say “most powerful” also.
USA ALL THE WAY!!
Wow
Team USA
This was awsome to ready and now I know more
Everybody get crazy
So everybody not know
Doesn’t surprise me.
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No surprise
Micky
America home of the free because of the brave
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Wow. You know but when an article like this comes out it really puts everything into perspective.
Riveting
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Canada surprises me, never thought of them as a military power.
I was surprised by the UK. I had no idea they were so strong !!!
I did not know how good the United Stars was, it’s so cool that we are 1
This totally shouldn’t have been a slide show. Info would have been much more interesting and easy to digest if it was a table or an infographic.
-a concerned fellow journalist
USA
Wow
good to know
Smh
Nice
Interesting!
Hi I like that comment
Points where?
Very interesting.
Hey
It’s very interesting what you read thank you
Its intresting
This article is very interesting I recommend a
All my respect to all the soldiers
The extent of $ spent in each country on defense is staggering. why not agree to peace everywhere and feed the hungry, care for the sick, and house the homeless.
Waiting, second stupid article I’ve read.
I read I several times and haven’t received any diamonds
Good
Interesting
Enjoyed the presentation. I was surprised at the strength of the smaller countries. Interesting
Good
Not a lot of surprises here.
About what I thought.
These are photos
I was surprised that Poland was still armed as high as to be #19. India definitely was a surprise, as was Ethiopia. The major powers 1-5 however, were not surprising at all.
I read this article several times and they do not give diamonds not fair
This was a very interesting article but most of it did not surprise me
Good
Very interesting read
Interesting articles
Wow this was very helpful!
Interesting…
Horrible article. Spammy as hell plus they’re paying for all of their views. Will never trust this company.
Interesting article I was surprised Japan wasn’t 2 they have many aircrafts carriers and subs
Wow
Lol
Awesome pics
I love army men
Borin
good very
Great read, very informative.
Interesting
Informing great info.
No surprise.
Whow
I was very surprised at the #1 ? CANADA is what like 25.
interesting!
interesting
I dont believe that any of this is accurate at all and even if the numbers are correct your comparing some countries 2200 surplus aircrafts built in the 1970s and 80s to anothers 2200 state of the art equipment. Way to many variations to simply compare number.
A peacefull nation with 100billion dollor budget vs a warmongering one with 10 billion.
all we shoul be worried about is ranking the most aggressive and violent
What I think is that some of that money should be set aside to help our soldiers when they have finished their term.
Hmmm… under Iran it states “Australia has” I didn’t go back to Australia to check the actual numbers, whether they were the same or different. Also was surprised that North Korea has more subs than the US.
Interessante
Good to know
Very interesting
Just think of what all that money could do to end world hunger if it was not spent on war implements. SAD!
Great article
Great article
Interesting read knew a lot but not all of this info
Thank you