Ranking of World Military Strength

One of the measure of national security level of the country is the Strength and Technology used in their Military. Today, most of the country were equipped with the latest technology in Military especially big country such USA, Russia and China. 

They are try to beat each other to ensure that their military equipment were better than other country and their national security put at higher level. That why, we can see that, those country willing to spent their money to buy a latest weapon technology to protect their country. For instances, USA were reported have budgeted USD 612,500,000 Billion in 2013 for their military (Source: GlobalFirePower.com)

In measuring the strength of World Military power, Global Firepower (GFP) provides a unique analytical display of data concerning of each country. The GFP Ranking is based on their analysis and come out with the  "Power Index" (PwIndx) which supplies a nation its respective ranking. 

For 2014, the Top 5 Ranking Country and their budget spending for military as below:

Source:www.globalfirepower.com

As expected, the the top 3 were dominated by the most powerful country in the world today i.e. USA, Rusia and China. These countries were also dominated the Top 5 Largest expoprter of the weapon in the world which USA & China were ranked 1 and 2 respectively (Source: www.therichest.com). 

It also noted that, in 2013 the USA exported about 27% of their weapon to middle east country. So, who actually the man behind arab spring which now we can see in Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Iraq etc.were under conflict. World today already know that!  

However, unexpectedly, India were ranked in 4th which indicate that their military readiness.India were also among the highest country that allocate the big amount of fund to improve their military strenght

In the context of Malaysia we also prepared ourselves to strengthen the our military equipment. Budget for 2015 announced by our Prime Minister has allocated RM17.7 Billion for our defence compared to RM16.10 billion n 2013. It indicate that, the government taken seriously on the issue of defence after several incident happen for the last one year. For instance, issue on the Lahad Datu, Sabah being invaded by the Royal Sulu Army and the latest issue on MH370 which triggered that our national security at stake. Issue of missing aircraft MH370 was also speculated due to military technology war between 3 big big Country.

The snapshot below shows to us the 2014 GFP comparison between Malaysia and Singapore.

Source : www.globalpower.com

Based on the GFP ranking, Malaysia is slightly better than Singapore which ranked at 44 compared to Malaysia Ranked at 38. However, if we based on the Military readiness in term of people and weapons, we can see that Singapore is much better than us. For instances, Singapore's tank and AFV in term of number is much better than Malaysia. In fact,everyone know that Singapore is  close trade partner as well as military partner to USA in ASEAN Region. 

Malaysia in last 10 year had spent quite big amount of money to improve military asset in protecting our company. However, the question here is;

 "Did our Armed Forces purchase the right equipment, weapons and weapons systems in the first place? For instances, our two scorpion submarine were fully operating? Some were also bring the issue that our Jet Fighter i.e. Sukhoi and  MIG is it the same type and specification used by other country like India, Rusia and Ukraine? 

I' m not in the position to comment further on this. But this must be taken into consideration to improve our military strength

Source : www.globalpower.com