According to the updated Armed Forces of the World Database of land power (military power minus naval power) Israel with land power score of 2098 is the 4th most powerful army and air force in the world. ISRAEL has world's highest ratings in 2 of the 3 most important categories: experience 9 (no other country has that a value), and 9 for leadership .It is tied for second in for quality and quantity of military equipment 8 (only the US has a higher score). Another very impressive statistic is Israel maintains the fourth most powerful army/air force with an annual military budget which is only of a small fraction of the military budgets of top six land powers. Other than the US, Israel is topped only by China whose population is 200 times that of Israel's and is barely edged out by India whose population is very close to 200 times larger than Israel's population. It's mind boggling.It's the equivalent of a country with a population of 1.5 million having an army and air force as powerful or nearly as powerful as the US Army and Air Force. The fact that Israel's naval is not very powerful on a global scale is immaterial because Israel has no conceivable need for a navy more powerful than it currently possesses. Israel packs a land power score of 2100 in a country the size of New Jersey. There is no place in the world with such a concentration of military power. Since concentration of military assets is key to effective military action,if I were a commander of a large military force, Israel would be the last place I'd attack. For those, who dismiss Israel's victories over their Arab neighbors, Egypt's army and air force are now as powerful as those of France. It shows the insanity of those who actually believe Hezbollah defeated Israel militarily. Speaking of insanity ,the President of Iran now seems even more insane.While he continues to insanely threaten to wipe Israel out, he is provoking an apocalypse for Iran. As Anthony Cordesman wrote in his analysis of the results of an all out war between Israel and Iran, Iran would suffer up to 26 million dead and totally cease to exist as a functional entity while Israel would lose at most a 10th of it's population and definitely continue as a fully functioning nation. For the sake of the Iranian people, please have your President committed to a psychiatric hospital as soon as possible. LOL |