Recently, the world's most influential "Global Firepower" organization released the 2024 world military power rankings, the United States continues to maintain the top spot, Russia ranks second and third, China ranks second and third, and the other top ten are India, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Japan, Turkey, Pakistan, and Italy.
Compared to the 2022 leaderboard, the leaderboard has not changed much. The most attractive thing is that Russia has suffered repeated setbacks in the Russian-Ukrainian war, which also shows the lack of military strength.
But alas, China did not overtake Russia. In addition, the Green Earth Research Group's list is only for traditional military strike forces, and does not include it in the study of nuclear **. This means that, even without considering the impact of a nuclear bomb, green financial institutions still believe that Russia is stronger than China.
Where does Russia's military power surpass China's?
One of the most noteworthy numbers is the number of vehicles. Most recently, the Russian Army had about 12,500 battle tanks, not only double the number of the United States, but also about 5,500 more, nearly three times the current 4,950 units of the Chinese Army.
Russia left quite a lot of ** in the Soviet era, which is another important reason for it to surpass China in military power.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia received a large number of ** and equipment from the Soviet Union, which became an important part of Russia's defense construction. Although some of these devices have been obsolete, a large number of diversified systems can still be used in a variety of fields, which greatly improves Russia's deterrence and combat effectiveness in conventional warfare.
For example, in the Russian-Ukrainian war, taking Russia as an example, the forces of the whole of Europe, when they came to aid Ukraine, failed to keep up, and they couldn't even talk about the price. After the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, Russia has moved quickly and has not lacked arms and ammunition.
The data on the Green Earth Map also takes into account the region and the retention factor. Russia is the largest country in the world in terms of land area, and is rich in oil, natural gas and various mineral resources, which provides a solid foundation for the sustained development of its military power.
Russia has rich scientific research experience in the field of military industry, which has laid a solid foundation for its development of high-end ** such as the world-renowned S-400 anti-aircraft missile.
Thinking about it this way, it is understandable that China is lagging behind Russia, because China still has many shortcomings, and it is still a little worse than an old power like Russia.
On this issue, a reporter interviewed Colonel Wu Qian.
At the press conference, Colonel Wu Qian said: "We have never expressed any opinion on these evaluations published by scientific research organizations. Theoretically speaking, we should judge it by its strength, the defense policy and strategy it implements. Although the country is large, war does not perish; Although the world is peaceful, if you forget about war, there will be danger. ”
In fact, there is no evaluation system that can accurately reflect a country's overall combat capability, because it is multi-dimensional and complex, and it is difficult to comprehensively reflect a country's overall combat capability through a simple quantitative score.
Green Green Earth is rated based on their unique algorithm, which combines factors such as military size, diversity, industrial strength, natural resources, and more. However, there are also many things that cannot be quantified, such as the quality of training in the army, the morale of soldiers, the leadership of commanders, the adaptability of the army to new technologies, the political stability of the country, and so on. This kind of thing can't be calculated in numbers at all.
Human ingenuity, the wisdom of leaders, and strategic innovation are all important factors in the success of mankind. If the success or failure of a campaign can be judged by quantity alone, then neither the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea nor Vietnam can be won.
As a matter of fact, whether from the test of history or from the test of practice, the real combat effectiveness of a nation often depends on its cultivation and utilization, scientific and technological progress, strategy formulation, cultural cohesion, and strategy flexibility.
Therefore, the GFP list is just a kind of entertainment, not a measure of numbers.