Which country has the strongest military?

United States ranks first at 97.8/100 on the Bureau’s military capability index — a 24-dimension causal assessment of fighting power, not a spending league table.

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The Military Capability Ranking

All 195 states scored 0–100 on the Bureau's 24-dimension causal model of military capability — mass, equipment, readiness, projection, industry, and nuclear deterrence, aggregated through a dependency graph, never by simple addition.

United States ranks first at 97.8/100. This ranking measures neither spending nor headcount alone: it assesses causal military capability — what each state can actually bring to bear — across 24 dimensions (mass, equipment, readiness, projection, industry, nuclear deterrence), aggregated through a dependency graph. High mass does not offset a failing defense industry: the model does not add up, it conditions.

Ranked by military capability (0–100)

195 states

Rank	State	Military power
1	United States	97.8
2	Russia	81.4
3	China	79.7
4	United Kingdom	69.0
5	France	68.3
6	Israel	58.9
7	India	57.4
8	Japan	54.6
9	South Korea	53.8
10	Egypt	52.5
11	Turkey	50.2
12	Italy	49.5
13	Thailand	49.3
14	Brazil	49.2
15	North Korea	49.1
16	Denmark	48.2
17	Finland	47.5
18	Guatemala	47.5
19	Germany	47.5
20	Spain	47.0
21	Colombia	46.1
22	Sweden	45.8
23	Costa Rica	45.7
24	New Zealand	45.6
25	Greece	45.1

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26	Mexico	45.1
27	Poland	45.0
28	Benin	44.8
29	Australia	44.5
30	Kazakhstan	44.4
31	Eritrea	44.4
32	Laos	43.6
33	Panama	43.6
34	Vietnam	43.5
35	Canada	43.3
36	Mozambique	43.3
37	Cuba	43.1
38	Netherlands	42.9
39	Indonesia	42.6
40	Tajikistan	42.5
41	Argentina	42.1
42	Pakistan	42.1
43	Norway	42.0
44	Mongolia	42.0
45	Chad	42.0
46	Ireland	41.8
47	El Salvador	41.8
48	Kyrgyzstan	41.6
49	Portugal	41.5
50	Iran	41.0
51	Mali	41.0
52	Austria	40.8
53	Belgium	40.7
54	Ukraine	40.5
55	Gambia	40.4
56	Belarus	40.0
57	Democratic Republic of the Congo	39.8
58	Solomon Islands	39.7
59	Niger	39.5
60	Madagascar	39.5
61	Nicaragua	39.3
62	Papua New Guinea	39.2
63	Guinea-Bissau	39.1
64	Turkmenistan	38.7
65	Equatorial Guinea	38.6
66	Mauritius	38.5
67	Saudi Arabia	38.5
68	Malaysia	38.4
69	Bulgaria	38.3
70	Haiti	38.0
71	Palestine	38.0
72	Bhutan	38.0
73	South Africa	37.9
74	Switzerland	37.9
75	Cabo Verde	37.8
76	Romania	37.5
77	Singapore	37.1
78	Chile	37.0
79	Somalia	37.0
80	Morocco	36.9
81	Sierra Leone	36.7
82	Qatar	36.6
83	Vanuatu	36.5
84	Czechia	36.2
85	Cameroon	36.1
86	Honduras	36.0
87	Liberia	36.0
88	Malawi	35.6
89	Kuwait	35.5
90	Philippines	35.3
91	Algeria	35.3
92	Jordan	35.2
93	Hungary	34.8
94	Jamaica	34.5
95	Samoa	34.2
96	Kiribati	34.1
97	Nigeria	34.1
98	Kenya	34.1
99	Trinidad and Tobago	34.0
100	Republic of the Congo	34.0
101	Bahamas	33.9
102	Comoros	33.8
103	Saint Lucia	33.8
104	Guyana	33.6
105	Rwanda	33.6
106	Burkina Faso	33.5
107	Cambodia	33.4
108	Guinea	33.2
109	Tunisia	33.2
110	Estonia	33.1
111	Fiji	33.0
112	Serbia	32.9
113	Grenada	32.8
114	Togo	32.7
115	Maldives	32.4
116	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	32.3
117	Barbados	32.3
118	Namibia	32.3
119	Bangladesh	32.2
120	Mauritania	32.0
121	Marshall Islands	31.9
122	São Tomé and Príncipe	31.8
123	Lebanon	31.6
124	United Arab Emirates	31.5
125	Dominica	31.4
126	Suriname	31.3
127	Ghana	31.2
128	Burundi	31.1
129	Dominican Republic	31.1
130	Côte d'Ivoire	31.1
131	Gabon	31.0
132	South Sudan	30.9
133	Antigua and Barbuda	30.9
134	Belize	30.8
135	Tanzania	30.8
136	Azerbaijan	30.8
137	Angola	30.6
138	Libya	30.6
139	Sudan	30.5
140	Peru	30.4
141	Sri Lanka	30.3
142	Timor-Leste	30.3
143	Saint Kitts and Nevis	30.1
144	Djibouti	30.1
145	Ethiopia	30.1
146	Eswatini	30.0
147	Central African Republic	29.9
148	Palau	29.9
149	Yemen	29.7
150	Armenia	29.6
151	Nepal	29.4
152	Brunei	29.0
153	Moldova	29.0
154	Botswana	29.0
155	Bahrain	28.9
156	Oman	28.8
157	Venezuela	28.8
158	Afghanistan	28.7
159	Lesotho	28.7
160	Iceland	28.7
161	Ecuador	28.7
162	Zimbabwe	28.5
163	Paraguay	28.1
164	Georgia	28.1
165	Syria	28.0
166	Bolivia	27.9
167	Uzbekistan	27.8
168	Croatia	27.6
169	Burma	27.5
170	Latvia	27.4
171	Tuvalu	27.2
172	Seychelles	26.9
173	Tonga	26.9
174	Lithuania	26.8
175	Senegal	26.8
176	Nauru	26.7
177	Zambia	26.6
178	Iraq	26.5
179	Micronesia	25.9
180	Slovenia	25.6
181	Uruguay	25.6
182	Uganda	25.3
183	Slovakia	24.7
184	Malta	24.4
185	Luxembourg	23.1
186	Albania	22.4
187	Cyprus	22.4
188	Bosnia and Herzegovina	22.1
189	Montenegro	21.4
190	North Macedonia	20.5
191	Holy See (Vatican City)	18.8
192	Monaco	18.6
193	San Marino	17.3
194	Andorra	17.2
195	Liechtenstein	16.7

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.

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