{"id":123030,"date":"2025-01-14T10:14:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T06:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=123030"},"modified":"2025-01-14T10:48:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T06:48:57","slug":"global-firepower-among-the-neighboring-countries-the-armenian-army-surpasses-only-georgia-in-its-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/123030\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Firepower: Among the neighboring countries, the Armenian Army surpasses only Georgia in its strength"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The American analytical company Global Firepower has published<\/a> a ranking of the world’s most powerful armies for 2025, which includes 145 countries. When making the ranking, the authors took into account a number of criteria, including military forces, the number of soldiers, the military budget, air and naval power, logistical capabilities, technological progress and about six dozen other criteria.<\/p>\n

Armenia has significantly improved its position compared to the previous year. If in 2024 the country was 102nd, this year it took 91st place in the rating, with a power index of 2.0373 (0.0000 points are considered “perfect”). Among neighboring states, the Azerbaijani army has been falling for the second year in a row. In 2023, it was in 57th place, in 2024 – 59th, and in 2025 – 60th. Turkey is in 9th place, Iran is 16th, and Georgia is 94th.<\/p>\n

The United States ranked first in the list of countries with the strongest armies, followed by Russia and China.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American analytical company Global Firepower has published a ranking of the world’s most powerful armies for 2025, which includes 145 countries. When making the ranking, the authors took into account a number of criteria, including military forces, the number of soldiers, the military budget, air and naval power, logistical capabilities, technological progress and about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":123016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,47,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-society","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}