{"id":52546,"date":"2015-01-19T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=52546"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:26:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:26:13","slug":"countries-ranked-by-military-strength-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/01\/countries-ranked-by-military-strength-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Countries Ranked by Military Strength: 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Military Powers of the World in Full Perspective<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The GFP list makes use of over 50 factors to determine each nation&#8217;s Power Index (&#8220;PwrIndx&#8221;) score. This provides the final ranking and allows smaller, technologically-advanced, nations to compete with larger, lesser-developed ones. Some bonuses (and penalties) are added for refinement. In the end, we hope it presents an unbiased outlook on the potential conventional military strength of a given country if only to stir some healthy debate.<\/p>\n<p>Things to keep in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em> Nuclear capability is NOT taken into account<br \/>\n\u2022 Geographical factors influence every country&#8217;s ranking<br \/>\n\u2022 Ranking does not solely rely on total number of weapons available<br \/>\n\u2022 Natural resource reliance (use\/production) is taken into account<br \/>\n\u2022 Land-locked nations are NOT penalized for lack of a standing navy<br \/>\n\u2022 Naval powers ARE penalized for limited naval capabilities<br \/>\n\u2022 Current political\/military leadership is NOT taken into account<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As of 04\/03\/2014 there are a total of 106 countries included in the GFP database. Due to the amount of data involved, adjustments are ongoing and corrections still being considered.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalfirepower.com\/countries-listing.asp\" >Go to Original to read the full article \u2013 globalfirepower.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Military Powers of the World in Full Perspective &#8211; The GFP list makes use of over 50 factors to determine each nation&#8217;s Power Index (&#8220;PwrIndx&#8221;) score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-militarism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}