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Grenada — Military Capability Assessment

Force structure, readiness, power projection, and deterrence: the Bureau’s strategic assessment of Grenada’s military capability — scored 0–100 across 24 causal dimensions.

#113Grenada32.81/100
Military power rank#113 / 195
Assessment coverage48%
Inventory depthSummary
Why this score — the assessment, decomposed

The 32.81/100 rests first on Command & control (65.00), Force mass (49.00), Land warfare (49.00). The binding constraints: Air power (8.00), Submarine force (8.00), Nuclear survivability (6.50) — in a causal model, capability can never rise above its weakest observed link. What would move the needle: Air power (8.00) — the weak link in the spending → equipment → readiness → capability chain.

  • Alliance architecture adds a +5.78 bonus.
  • Nuclear deterrence contributes a capped +0.61 bonus — it cannot manufacture top-tier conventional standing on its own.

13 of 24 dimensions could not be observed (Mobilization, Equipment quality, Readiness & training, ISR & intelligence, Missile forces, Air defense…); missing data caps the score — it never inflates it.

The six sub-scores

Conventional capability27.88
Nuclear deterrence15.00
Power projection22.80
Sustainment—
Mobilization & regeneration49.00
Strategic resilience18.92

All 24 causal dimensions

Force mass Geographic & structural data · Bureau structural assessment49.00
Mobilizationnot observed
Equipment qualitynot observed
Readiness & trainingnot observed
Command & control Geographic & structural data · Bureau structural assessment65.00
ISR & intelligencenot observed
Air power Bureau structural assessment8.00
Land warfare Geographic & structural data · Bureau structural assessment49.00
Naval power Bureau structural assessment22.80
Submarine force Bureau structural assessment8.00
Missile forcesnot observed
Air defensenot observed
Cyber & spacenot observed
Logisticsnot observed
Strategic liftnot observed
Overseas basingnot observed
Expeditionary capabilitynot observed
Defense industrynot observed
Wartime productionnot observed
Combat experience Historical record10.00
Alliances Bureau structural assessment · Geographic & structural data48.12
Nuclear deterrence Nuclear taxonomy · Bureau structural assessment15.00
Nuclear survivability Bureau structural assessment · Nuclear taxonomy6.50
Geographic advantage Bureau structural assessment · Geographic & structural data27.78

Assessment coverage: 47.8% — 11 of 24 dimensions observed. Kernel v10, run 2026-10-04; evidence snapshot: CIA World Factbook 2026-09-28, SIPRI arms-producer revenue, v9 nuclear taxonomy.

Air power
Structured summary · assessment coverage 48%

Kernel assessment: Air power 8.00/100 (observed).

Type-by-type inventory in preparation — this dossier deepens as coverage grows. Nothing here is estimated silently.

Land power
Structured summary · assessment coverage 48%

Kernel assessment: Land warfare 49.00/100 (observed).

Type-by-type inventory in preparation — this dossier deepens as coverage grows. Nothing here is estimated silently.

Sea power
Structured summary · assessment coverage 48%

Kernel assessment: Naval power 22.80/100 (observed).

Type-by-type inventory in preparation — this dossier deepens as coverage grows. Nothing here is estimated silently.

Missiles & air defense
Structured summary · assessment coverage 48%

Missile forces could not be observed in this assessment — missing data caps the score, it is never treated as zero.

Type-by-type inventory in preparation — this dossier deepens as coverage grows. Nothing here is estimated silently.

Nuclear
Structured summary · assessment coverage 48%

Status: —

Nuclear deterrence15.00
Nuclear survivability6.50
Force structure — record

Armed forces

no regular military forces; the Royal Grenada Police Force (under the Ministry of National Security) includes a Coast Guard and a paramilitary Special Services Unit (2025)

Note

Grenada joined the Caribbean Regional Security System (RSS) in 1985; RSS signatories (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Guyana, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) agreed to prepare contingency plans and assist one another, on request, in national emergencies, prevention of smuggling, search and rescue, immigration control, fishery protection, customs and excise control, maritime policing duties, protection of off-shore installations, pollution control, national and other disasters, and threats to national security (2025)

Magna assessment

MILITARY POWER 32.81/100 — The Magna Military Power score is our 0–100 measure of causal military capability — 24 dimensions (mass, equipment, readiness, projection, industry, nuclear deterrence), aggregated through a dependency graph, never by simple addition.

Momentum 0 — Quarterly momentum: the Bureau's read on the country's trajectory over the last quarter, from −10 (deteriorating fast) to +10 (accelerating).

A quiet quarter: no major shocks, no breakthroughs. The country's trajectory is set by structural forces larger than any single season.

The honest reading is steadiness — neither crisis nor windfall — with the long currents of demography, trade and institutions deciding more than any three months.

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