Global Fire Power bumps Turkey down from 8th to 13th

[RayKalm]

https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.asp

 

[Bismarck]

Ridiculous list.

 

[Imran Khan]

if they follow USA they will be #3 if they did not they will be #130 . these lists are joke same as FATF .

 

[waz]

The annual stupid list is out again. A list full of nations that have never fought a war in their modern history. Also Brazil at number 9 LOL!!!!

 

[Pinnacle]

Egypt no.10 above germany and italy, what a joke

 

[waz]

South Korea and Japan above established military powers like the UK and France hahahah. This list keeps on delivering the BS laughs. I can't wait to see Kenya at number 3.

 

[Indos]

With little spending on defense, Indonesia can make into number 16, nice

 

[Dante80]

GFP uses an in-house "Power Index" formula to essentially tabulate and compare counting stats on a number of publicly available factors that it deems important when assessing military strength. I assume that there is an amount of weighting for the factors themselves.

While having said factors readily available to view on a per country basis is somewhat useful to the reader, trying to use them in any context without the corresponding nuances that accompany them is an exercise in utter futility.

There is no way to derive results of any validity from a quantitative analysis of disparate stats. The reason the the big boys (think tanks and governmental agencies) are paid the big bucks is that they perform qualitative analysis on the things they want to study.

So in the end, while mildly entertaining in its particulars a survey like this can only be thoroughly flawed.

Case in point, a simple example. Below is a naval analysis between two random countries, Poland and Greece.

The GFP formula assigns an overall "Fleet strength" number, derived from the (assume weighted) analysis of counting stats in some (not all) naval ship classes. The formula somehow manages to give a 87 to 116 fleet power stat when comparing the two navies, without of course providing any qualitative analysis for the classes it counts. And if one could wager a guess, a good chunk of Poland's fleet strength as shown is derived from the large number of....minesweepers it has.

For a more direct comparison, try to view these two pages.

List of ships of the Polish Navy
List of active Hellenic Navy ships

Now, try to assign a comparative fleet power between those two navies yourself. I think you are going to reach a very different conclusion. And that conclusion would ALSO be thoroughly flawed, because you are missing things like naval airpower, training, availability, roles, context of use etc etc.

 

[Pandora]

Another dick measuring contest. This particular website posts the shitiest rankings purely based on quantity. Indian SU30 was supposed to be a superior weapons platform but an SD10/AMRAAM jammed up its arse when it came face to face with our thunders and vipers.

 

[CIA Mole]

how are the jews so low

 

[RayKalm]

Egypt just moved up to 9th place.

 

[Ansu fati]

Egypt is 10th place hahahahah
Yesterday isis bombed israeli-egyptian pipeline
Today they organized attacks in north sinai

https://twitter.com/x/status/1224759712530489344

https://twitter.com/x/status/1224686873647484928

https://twitter.com/x/status/1224688543601233921

But yeah let’s put Mr.favourite dictator’s army in top 10 armies so that he can use this as propaganda