13. Australia
Each person serving in the Australian military is a $250,000 investment. The nation’s huge defense budget contrasts its low manpower more than anywhere, which implies the world’s highest level of technological capabilities.
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- Active Personnel: 104,000
- Defense Budget: $26,100,000,000
- Armed land vehicles: 2,110
- Multi-launch Rocket Systems: 0
- Aircraft (fighters, interceptors, attack copters): 417
Australian offensive forces are limited to a small group of special-force troops and the third largest naval fleet on the planet. Their defense relies on advantageous geographical features and the world’s fourth largest oil reserves.
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The absence of the United States and Russia, makes this list impossible to take seriously.
Actually, Russia’s in third place and the U.S. of A. tops the list.
I’m guessing you didn’t see all the slides;)