Pakistan Army Ranks 11th Strongest Military In The World- - Credit Suisse

Pakistan army has been ranked as the 11th strongest military in the world as per as per Credit Suisse report on globalization. Pakistan's military strength score is 0.41 while US tops the list with score of 0.94. While it follows Russia, China, Japan and India in the list among top five. The report says that its active personnel number stands at 710,000 and has more weaponry than Germany, Australia and Canada. The report ranks the strength of 20 countries according to weaponry including tanks, aircrafts, helicopters, and submarines. USA's fleet of 13900 aircrafts, 920 attack helicopters, 20 aircraft carriers, 72 submarines far overweighs the military might of any of its close rivals and so does its military spendings worth $ 610 billion in 2014, which is far more than the combined military expenditures of the next nine countries in this index. In reality, in today's nuclear era conventional forces are not the only indicator of military strength. Russia and the USA account for more than 90 % of the global inventories of nuclear weapons, according to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's Yearbook 2015.