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Here's the way it is.....
The U.S. has the most money in it's military, it's massive war machine and defensive capabilities are unmatched, period. Anyone that thinks otherwise is just fooling themselves. The response time of the U.S. military to anywhere in the world is unmatched.
China has without a doubt the largest single army in the world, but bigger isn't always better. They are a nuclear power though, which adds a lot to their threat potential.
Russia & friends -- very much a force to be reconed with, but since the inevitable breakup their otherwise massive forces are a bit fragmented, which only serves to create mulitple threats instead of one big threat. However, we are presently all at peace, right?
Great Britain has a sizeable force as well, plus the combined forces of all the commonwealth countries, some of which have nukes.
France: nukes, and a small air force. Their army would be wiped out quickly in any large scale conflict.
Canada: Aside from my pride in being Canadian, I will say this much --- our navy isn't worth much military-wise.
Our pilots and soldiers however are some of the best trained and skilled in the world. Debate with me all you want, but anyone that is really in the know about such things will tell you the same thing. The average Canadian soldier ranks right up there with the British Guerkas (sp?), who are widely known to be the fiercest and most rigorously trained in the world.
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