Top 15 Asian Armed Forces

last SG · 2007-12-20T08:09:35+00:00

Israell is part of Asia just that they dont want to play football in Asia

missqi SG

how to compare? smlj; russia and china compared to singapore and malaysia. ccb are you a farktard.

protonhybrid SG

let's not get distracted. let's stick to the original topic.

can somebody list the respective weapons stocks for each country that you think are in top 15?
look obviously you can disagree but can you not just post YOUR top 15 or so and argue why they're there.

Alvin.Yeoh SG

Weapon stocks isn't everything. A coutry can have a million crossbows and it still would get its ass kicked by a country with a strategic bomber.

Defining the quality of a country's armed forces is an exercise in futility at best as first of all, you will never get or be allowed to reveal the full capabilities and secondly because of that you'll just get into a pissing contest and everybody is going to have his or her own opinion about things

But I'm just curious by what logic or yardstick did you rank your list?

Miracles&Prophecies SG

The more appropriate question is: What good is technology without excellent training?

Don't you read what happened in Israel's 67 and Yom Kippur War? Also as far as I know in the first gulf war Iraqis had more tanks on the field than the Allied. Like more than twice over. Air strikes only prioritized on strategic targets before switching to tactical ones like Iraqis tanks because they ran out of strategic targets. Still the number of operational Iraqis tanks were still believed to be greater than the combined allied tanks.

Miracles&Prophecies SG

We all know that Israel geographically is indeed part of Asia.

Russia's territory spans from eastern Europe in western borders to Asia in her eastern border.

Don't you know the disputed Sakhalin island between Japan and Russia today or even the Naval battle between then imperial Japanese Navy and Russian Empire back before WWI starts, that is at the beginning of last century(19th). Then the Russian empire's Asiatic fleet was tactically defeated in the beginning of the war and the Russian's European fleet made a voyage round the world to her Asia territory to fight off the Japanese. The Japanese naval fleet defeated them. The first occurrence that an Asian Nation able to defeat what was considered a major European power.

So actually we can consider Russia to be geographically located partially in Asia.

PS: How do you make multi quote here anyway? Smile

casshern SG

weapon stocks? so what if u have 100000000 tanks and 100000000 jets but incompetent staff?

there is no way we can compare each force. we can have a mighty heartware force with outdated hardware hitting a mighty hardware without the heartware silly.

take a look at the Vietnam war, the Viets hold up the mighty USA, so the Viets should be ranked world tops?

casshern SG

may i add that there are also other factors to consider, like the scenario and doctrines etc. some forces are better adept in some situations den other forces.

i just find it n00bish to compare the forces simply by looking at their hardware, just my 2 cents worth

Arapahoe SG

i think one of the factors need to consider is also experience. During WWII, the US learned from experience from North Africa and Italy campaign before embarking on D Day.

So certainly those countries who have extensive military experience are proven force.

protonhybrid SG

actually some of you are being childish weapons stocks and types of weapons held (and ability to make such) is important and decisive. experience helps but it isn't a decisive factor.

protonhybrid SG

for instance the most experienced in warfare or at least amongst them, will be iraqis and syrians (mesopotemians) etc but they lost badly to americans and israelis despite being packed with similarly advanced weaponry (at least close in quality and numbers).

experience isn't the be all and end all. that was my point.

tripwire SG

the viets got the economic, military and industrial support of china and USSR and the warsaw pact....to a lesser extent.

i would love to see the viets take on the USA one on one and see if they can still win.... without all those big brothers provide free guns, bullets, tanks, food and "advisors" Twisted Evil

^Delta^ SG

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