Worlds most powerful army? - [Closes 24/06/07]

[N!ck]

........Closely related to this are the “combat support” elements. The most important of these are logistics (being able to move troops, and their supplies, long distances and in a timely manner) and maintenance (keeping things in repair and running under all conditions.) Then there are the intangibles (like leadership, training and the most intangible item of all; military tradition.) Apply all of those to the raw number of troops and you get different number. This number is called "combat power."

Top Ten By Combat Power

United States
China
Israel
India
Russia
Korea, South
Korea, North
United Kingdom
Turkey
Pakistan

The most unusual entry here is Israel. But this is because Israel is one of the few nations to have a reserve army that can be mobilized for action more quickly than most countries can get their active duties into shape for combat. The mobilized Israeli armed forces number over half a million troops. In addition, the Israelis have world ........

But America still seem unable to distinguish between the enemy and the people on their side. Americans are "trigger happy" imo.

[jackass]

China's Red Gaurd are very powerful, yet so is Russia's Soviet Army.
Yet Americas is good also.

[Sammeth.]

The Chinese Army has 7,000,000 troops in total which makes it the 3rd Largest, however it has 2,500,000 ACTIVE troops making it the army with the most active troops.

[Aflux]

North Korea, without a doubt.

If they wanted too, they could wipe out every person that is not Korean.

This isn't a debate, it's just a question, and I've answered it.

[FlyingJesus]

In the 60s Mao claimed he could build a 200,000,000 man army - I haven't read up on that really, but I'm guessing it would be through conscription.

That would be somewhat devastating.

[Yoshimitsui]

I would say us the British, we have the S.A.S, one of the most sophisticated regiments in the world and the M.O.D.

[Mentor]

Well overall id say the Americans, dispite being a pretty incompetent force as a whole, the numbers combined with the technolgy and backing give the the edge.

Chinas miltary probably has the largest potental becuse if the countary went in to a war and the econmey switched to manufactureing wepons they would within a matter of weaks be able to equal any force on earth with ease due to the sheer size of its labor force.

The uk probably has the most powerful force in terms of indervdiaul soldures, although are miltary force is tiny and underfunding, the highly trained and experenced forces we do use are how we still get listed as one of the most miltary powerful countarys on earth. i believe as a comparative the normal level of training for a british troop is somwhere in the reagon of what a US navy seal would get.

[RedStratocas]

Well seeing as the U.S. has enough nuclear weapons to destroy every living thing on earth 15 times over, we've got it made.

But as we're proving right now, we suck at building countries with our army

[Mentor]

Well seeing as the U.S. has enough nuclear weapons to destroy every living thing on earth 15 times over, we've got it made.

But as we're proving right now, we suck at building countries with our army

Nucler streangh is kinda usless though, since quite a few countarys have the firepower to destroy the world, if only 2 or 3 times over... and really destroying it one time is just as good as 30, 40 or a 100 times.

[-:Undertaker:-]

North Korea, without a doubt.

If they wanted too, they could wipe out every person that is not Korean.

This isn't a debate, it's just a question, and I've answered it.

I laughed.

North Korea is in poverty and they have no missles to carry their Nuclear Warheads.

Britain currently has around 180 Nuclear Warheads but USA and Russia have much more than that.

Britain is not powerful, face it.

Our Nuclear Arms program is what will have us, not our army at it's current state and it's numbers.

I'd say in order of top armys.

1 # China/USA
2 # Russia