Turkey ahead of India? Give me a freaking break kane, you are so biased it's sickening. Turkey is probably around 12th or so really. You always argue that Turkey is better than said country, because of some ancient history bullshit. Today is today, and Ataturk cannot come back from the grave and lead you off to war anymore. Honestly, if the Germans or French (as you mentioned) came to town and started dropping precision bombing, it would be over quick. I know that sounds mean, but you greatly overestimate your countries military prowess.

do not forget turkey the warrior.brazil,pakistan is not stronger than us.And india,china,england,france,germany can not defeat us by themself.they need help as they did in history.actually that wasn't enough we beat them.

Besides, infantry-wise there is the US Army black berets, the green berets, the Delta Force, the Navy SEALs, the Marines...

Black Berets? What the hell? You mean the 75th Rangers?

"Green Berets" = Army SF.

 

"Delta Force" = CAG or SFOD-D.

 

Marines are not a special operations force. They have MARSOC, but alone they are a medium infantry force with a amphibious focus.

Sorry, your post just jumped out to me as highly uneducated.

Hey,

           Much as I enjoyed the discussion (The list), the list I feel is immaterial given todays realities.Wars will no longer be decided on plain battle grounds but will(and I hope not) be fought in our backyards.The victor will not be the one with the most firepower, but the one with the least moral fibre.Civilized trained men fight for causes and not just to obliterate the enemy and all his kin.The most powerful list will then read like the list of most wanted terrorist outfits and rogue nations.I ask you all then to exclude India from either lists. Dispite what some our politicians would like to project my country as, we are at heart a peace loving nation, we have not invaded any neighbouring nation, only protected our soverignty from time to time. The young in this country(I presume to speak for them), want peace with our neighbours(two in particular-care to guess).

BHUTAN if any of you have heard measures its GDP in terms of a GROSS HAPPINESS PRODUCT.Would any of you care to list the top ten countries in terms of GHP.(hope India makes it there)

 

 

 

 

This depends on a lot of factors.  As the founder of this site (I think) once pointed out, there are only three countries now that can unilaterally project force globally (America, Britain, and France), and only one of them that can do so at any level above expeditionary force.  On that scale, there are only three countries to rank.  However, from a defensive standpoint, a country like China is actually stronger than any single state in Europe, and even India probably is.  Maybe the only way to really list them is by offensive, and defensive capacity.  Then there's latent capacity, which would propel a country like Japan past any in Europe, and into the #2 offensive position, with Germany able to leapfrog France and Britain as well.  Just as important as anything else is the "paper tiger" factor.  How strong is the public's stomach?  And how strong is the leadership's will, or ability, to go against public sentiment?  How tough can the military get with the enemy without the media and human rights groups screaming that there are abuses?  All Western nations weaken noticeably when that's factored in.

as the tittle does not specify in what you realy mean bassing it on a mix of economic, military, capability on sustainability, resources, population and education on that population. Countries like Isriel and South Korea are over rated for with out forign support would colapes very quickly. Even China and India gaining ground very fast are still reliant on western money to buy the goods of wich they vastley produce for export. Sleeper countries with week armies but massive economies and recourses would convert very quickly in a hostal world, Germany, Japan, Canada and Australia. Saying the poop realy hit the fan and evry country was completly on its own the list would look like this. 1 USA 2 Russia 3 China 4 Germany 5 UK 6 France 7 Japan 8 Canada 9 Italy 10 Australia

 

If Russia, Sadia Arabia, and Canada didnt exist neither would 91% of the worlds oil supply.

Yeah i agree, why is india and pakistan above the UK and France??

 

India will be like no. 2 but for a long time they are a devolping country and i dont even know why pakistan is in there it should go:

 

1. United States of America

2. China

3. United Kingdom

4. France

5. Russia

6. Japan

7. Germany

8. India

9. Brazil

10. South Korea

1) United States of America
2) People's Republic of China
3) Russian Federation
4) Republic of India
5) Islamic Republic of Pakistan
6) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
7) Republic of France
8) Federal Republic of Germany
9) Republic of South Korea
10) Federative Republic of Brazil

As long as 50 % of Indians dont have access to a water toilet,  and are advised to eat rats, and their city mayors get killed by apes, I wouldnt call it the best country yet.  

  

The last sentence.

Yes it would, Somebody else would own it.

@ Nasty German Idiot:-

 

u can shut ur A _ _ and sit in a corner.....worls knows what ur....heheheheh....don feel bad dude....try to get ur country some recognition in a good way....n u can learn a lot from IND....we are always ready to counsel u guys...