The 10 best military in the world

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Everyone wants to know who carries the biggest stick. While everyone has their own measures on how to judge the size of a nation's army, these 10 armies are easily some of the best equipped and trained in the modern world:

10. United Kingdom

A British sniper looks at his sniper rifle L115A3. (Photo: Ministry of Defense)

                          

• The United Kingdom has one of the newest aircraft carriers in the world, HMS Queen Elizabeth. It also has almost 900 aircraft and an active military service of more than 150,000 people. But it has a small general army for an island nation with 76 ships in total and its total armored vehicles, counting its 250 tanks, are just a little over 6,000.

9. Germany

• German Army Superior Cpl. Andre Schadler explores the battlefield in search of threats with a thermal vision during the first day of training in the Great Lithuanian Training Regiment Hetman Jonusas Radvila, in Rukla, Lithuania, June 10, 2015. (Photo: Army Sergeant U.S. James Avery)

• German Army Superior Cpl. Andre Schadler explores the battlefield in search of threats with a thermal vision during the first day of training in the Great Lithuanian Training Regiment Hetman Jonusas Radvila, in Rukla, Lithuania, June 10, 2015. (Photo: Army Sergeant U.S. James Avery)

• With almost 700 aircraft and more than 6,000 armored vehicles, as well as 180,000 well-trained active troops, Germany is well positioned for a defensive war. Why only on the defensive? Because it lacks the most important power projection platforms, such as carriers, and has few troop and submarine transports.

8. Italy

• A member of the Italian Special Forces participates in small unit tactics at the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center in Amman, Jordan, during Eager Lion 2017. (Photo: Mass Communication Specialist of the U.S. Navy. 2nd class Christopher Lange)

• A member of the Italian Special Forces participates in small unit tactics at the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center in Amman, Jordan, during Eager Lion 2017. (Photo: Mass Communication Specialist of the U.S. Navy. 2nd class Christopher Lange)

• Italy has two smaller aircraft carriers, many helicopters and almost 250,000 active troops, which allows it to boost a significant force worldwide. Those service members are equipped with more than 800 aircraft and 7,000 armored vehicles. Unfortunately, the shortage of tanks (around 200) and ships (less than 150 for a peninsular nation) damages their classification.

7. France

• A French paratrooper watches other soldiers in the air descend from a C-130. (Photo: U.S. Army Spc. Lloyd Villanueva)

• The French army has 204,000 active military personnel and 183,000 in reserve. Those are relatively small numbers, but their forces are equipped with capable equipment produced by a local defense industry: think of the Mirage fighter and the Mistral-class amphibious assault ship.

• It is based to a greater extent than most armored combat vehicles instead of tanks with almost 7,000 of the former and just over 400 of the latter. The Charles de Gaulle of nuclear propulsion is the only non-US nuclear carrier in the world. His foreign legion is one of the most famous combat forces in the world.

6. South Korea

• U.S. Soldiers UU. Assigned to Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment and Soldiers of the Republic of Korea (ROK) with 8th Division, 137th Battalion carries out an urban rape in Rodriguez Live Fire Range, South Korea , March 9, 2016. (Photo: U.S. Army Sergeant Kwadwo Frimpong)

• U.S. Soldiers UU. Assigned to Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment and Soldiers of the Republic of Korea (ROK) with 8th Division, 137th Battalion carries out an urban rape in Rodriguez Live Fire Range, South Korea , March 9, 2016. (Photo: U.S. Army Sergeant Kwadwo Frimpong)

• With more than 624,000 troops; 2,381 tanks; and 1,412 planes ready to depart, South Korea is anything but weak. It also has more than 5 million members of the reservation service. Most of his team is on the newer side and part is homegrown. But, it is important to remember why Korea has so much firepower at hand.

• Its most likely enemy is North Korea, which has one of the largest artillery reserves in the world stacked within the reach of the South Korean capital. And although the huge army of North Korea is too badly equipped, trained and prepared to make this list, it is still likely that an invasion from the north will paralyze South Korea and level its capital before the aggressors can be defeated.

5. Japan

JS Atago from Japan, a guided missile destroyer.

• Japan maintains a "Self Defense Force" that is very capable in both attack and defense. With the fourth largest underwater force and four small aircraft carriers, often called "helicopter carriers", as well as tanks and homegrown aircraft and imported weapons such as the US Apache. UU., Japan has a varied collection and capable of military equipment.

• Even so, the country suffers a problem of significant size. It has less than 1,600 planes, 4,000 armored vehicles and only about 130 ships. All that is manned by a little more than 300,000 troops. In a prolonged war, Japan will deeply feel every loss of a submarine or other high value asset.

4. India

• Commands of the IAF Garud in a training video of the Indian Air Force (IAF video)
• India has a large number of troops, but they are mostly reserve personnel (2.8 million reserve versus almost 1.4 million assets). It has a large number of armored vehicles in more than 11,000, but it has a relatively small air force and navy and depends on more prosperous allies for much of its defense development.

• But some of those joint ventures are paying off. While Sukhoi planes from India bought from Russia have repeatedly had problems, the country is also working with Russia to perfect a fifth-generation fighter and a supersonic cruise missile that could be transported by submarines, airplanes and vehicles.

3. China

• A Chinese infantry fighting vehicle ZBD-04. (Photo of the Chinese Ministry of Defense)
• China has the largest population in the world with 1.4 billion and its largest military population with 3.7 million, of which 2.2 million are active troops. Those millions of men and women are equipped with almost 3,000 aircraft, 13,000 armored vehicles and 714 ships.

• But China struggles with the problems of modernization and organization as decades of power struggles between the army and the navy emptied sections of the force. But with the increase in military spending that places it only behind the US. In the US, it is rapidly closing technology and equipment gaps, especially in strategically important areas such as Taiwan, the South China Sea and Africa.

2. Russia

• Russian special forces. (Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation)

• When it comes to countries that hit above their weight, it is difficult to find a better example than Russia. Despite a relatively small economy (the data differs, but generally occupies the tenth place or less in the world), it manufactures a large amount of military hardware and is the second largest exporter in the world after the US. UU.

• This allows it to deploy some 3,800 airplanes, 5,600 armored vehicles, including tanks, and 282 warships (counting everything from its aircraft carrier to small logistics vessels). He is currently trying to develop the Armata T-14. If successful, that would be the most advanced tank in the world, with active protection systems, an automatic loader and an almost unbeatable armor.

1. United States

Photo: U.S. Army Sgt. UU. Shiloh capers

• If you were surprised, you shouldn't be. The United States spends more on its armed forces, both per capita and total. Your Marina has the largest and largest aircraft carriers in the world with 11 full-size aircraft carriers (counting the new USS Gerald R. Ford) and 8 "helicopter carriers" in service. Its Air Force flies the largest and most technologically advanced air fleet in the world, which is slightly larger than the US Navy's air fleet. UU.

• Meanwhile, the US Army UU. And the Marine Corps are not the largest of their respective groups worldwide, but they are some of the most capable. Both forces enjoy a very high expense per service member compared to rival forces, and that allows them to take their artillery and airplanes to the fight.

• The four branches of the US Department of Defense UU. They are trained to work together on a battlefield, combining their powers into a single joint team.

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