Isn't it a bit ridiculous to question who is best since it depends on the situation in which the fight occurs? Or am I bringing sensible thought into a measuring contest?

I don't consider the US army to be the strongest in the world. The risk of political unrest at home and a lack of willingness's for more wars really cripples the US's ability to fight.

Originally posted by belial259
I don't consider the US army to be the strongest in the world. The risk of political unrest at home and a lack of willingness's for more wars really cripples the US's ability to fight.

And what do you base your thesis on? There is no unwillingness to fight. There is however, as in every free country, a high sensitivity for senseless, unnecessary or ethically and legally ambiguous wars. And it is good that way.

i read a lot of the comments saying china has like 200 millions troops.... well, i think that's like bull, i read something saying that china has a 2.25 million strong army ( largest active army in the world... troops that is, if you included the whole entire army that would be something like 4.5-5 million soldiers ). And to clarify right the top 3 military rankings are:
1. USA
2. China
3. Russia
China is above Russia because they have the largest army and more resources. Also because Russia is like having a worthless economy or something like that, and China is more high tech them. And personally i think that if USA continues in the Afghan war, they won't be on the top for long

o sorry... i meant to say the best army in terms of man-power, equipment and training. And if you want an explanation then it's this: USA there is no need for one
China large army, bought lots of equipment from USA and Russia. And as for training they all got like kung fu skills because it's mandatory for them to do it.
Russia has pretty modern equipment like China, not a lot of differences but yea and training simple hand to hand combat and man power is pretty moderate.
So my opinion is that out of all these countries USA would win a war.
China could get a country to surrender by storming there country with a large amount of troops ( just as long as it doesn't take to much time )
Russia they could basically go beserk and go HAHAHAHA YOU BOMB WE BOMB YOU DEAD HAHAHAHA

You cannot trust any one country to provide accurate statistics on their own military data. As you can imagine, a country can exaggerate their numbers for bragging rights, threats and for defensive purposes. Plus you must account other factors, such as for Russia, what weapons and planes and ships do not work or are old and out dated. Also, the USA has thousands of planes and boats in graveyards because they are no longer used, but if needed, they could easily be brought back to service. So much of the data could false or inaccurate.

Russia, China and India had huge joint exercises in 2008 i think, the relationship between these countries is very misunderstood, they are close allies.

i've read all the posts and here's what i have to say:

Russia is capable of fighting a good war coz of their training, and if you didn't notice, suddenly over the past decade they've been making a #load of new planes and tanks and etc.

the U.S. tech *maybe* getting old but it's still pretty efficient. they're just upgrading w/e they have with modern stuff coz they're trying to save money i guess and not trying to pump out new tech every year even though they might have lots of secret prototypes.

china is uncertain. it isn't an open country and might even exaggerate figures so that other countries don't under estimate them.

Many of you aren't thinking logically, only thinking out of pride for your own country(which is good but not for accurate & unbiased information) ..

china & india were allies, like thousands of years ago. they've been fighting political wars since china took a part of kashmir and started publishing maps with their border well inside mainland india. if they got into a war, probably china would beat the # out of india, but we all know that that's not gonna happen coz the u.s. being against china would def. want a say but things are uncertain.

if conflict does take place between pakistan & india, i think the us would side with india coz their main concern is the massive pile of nukes just waiting to be stolen by muslim extremists in pakistan/afghanistan.

most of india's tech is russian, israeli and even american incorporated. they're spending a ton on millitary for some apparent reason which i don't approve of. there's alot of corruption so the money just goes into politician's pockets.

the u.k. and france have a pretty sick army too.

so does germany

don't know much about the koreas

japan couldn't have an army coz of the ww2 stuff and the u.s. is obliged to protect it, but if they did im pretty sure it would be mostly of super advanced robots and they wud def. b the best army in the world.

canada........eehhhhh........ummm....i think they'll just follow w/e war the us goes in2 ..

well .. the fighting conditions is probably the main thing that armies would have to face.

if you put indian soldiers in the russian winter, not soo good.
russian soldiers in rainforests, not good either.

im pretty sure no one even wants a war. except of course north korea. they're #ed in the head.

but are there any best armies or winners in war?...i don't think soo...
peace is better than war, unless 'they' attack first ..
i don't think there is a best army.

Originally posted by ArcPeter
There was not a single word about allying against USA in that article.
It was my joke, maybe silly one.

Yeah, pretty silly .... here let me laugh for you ... hahahahahaha . . . NOT.

What would happen if they all allied against the USA, well, hmmm can you say BBQ'd Chinese, Russians, North Koreans . . . you get the idea . . . right?

ummm this is quite propganda made and not from fact if u look up various site providing this information you see

The US Library of Congress: Country Studies; Only countries for which we have data are listed

Land based systems:Tanks,NPC'n'nsuch:

Russia:79,985

China:31,300

United States of America:29,920

North Korea:16,400


USA is not strong on tank and such front... as it has no enemy wich can reach it shores and invade you do got the biggest navy and airplanes/jet, but tanks and such hell no 3rd russia got x3 as many land based weaponry as you,

Artillery:

China:14,000

Russia:13,585

united states of america:5,178

North korea:3,500


Aircraft carriers:US:11

World put together:12

actually the submarine part is distubring here it comes:

North Korea:97

United States of America:75

China:68

Russia:61




i found this at check it out yourself:

www.globalfirepower.com

also i dont know were i found it but USA + EU got less tanks then russia, just check out sites like CIA factbook n such enjoy

Originally posted by belial259
I don't consider the US army to be the strongest in the world. The risk of political unrest at home and a lack of willingness's for more wars really cripples the US's ability to fight.

If not which country's army is the strongest?