India Army vs Pakistan Army

India Army vs Pakistan Army: As we know there is always some tension prevails between these two nuclear-armed neighboring countries. Looking at their current bilateral relations and it’s hard to believe that these countries were divided into two different countries from a single country after India got independence from Britishers. Looking at their bilateral relations in all these past years, it looks like they have been carrying forward this bitter animosity from ancient times. In these last seventy years, the two armies have fought four times against each other.

India Army vs Pakistan Army

In this article we will try to understand the army strength of two countries on the basis of Global Firepower Ranking Index 2023. Analyzing the military strength of the two countries according to the most recent study from Global Firepower Ranking. It’s quite clear that Pakistan lags much behind India and India enjoys a strong numerical advantage over Pakistan in both conventional and nuclear weapons, giving it an upper edge in dealing with its perennial enemy.

India Army vs Pakistan Army: What is Global Firepower Ranking?

Global Firepower is a ranking based on total available active military manpower by country, from highest to lowest. The ranking is based on the various factors, such as natural resources, workforce, quantity and variety of weapons, industrial capacity, financial stability, logistics and geographical consideration. Data given below is a researched work which has utilized over 50 individual factors to determine a given nation’s Power Index  score. In order to give a detailed information they have collected data in the form of different categories like the defense budget of the country, its active personnel and every other small detail like the number of frigates available.

For 2023, India ranks 4 out of the 145 countries considered for the annual GFP review. It holds a Power Index score of 0.1025, and a score of 0.0000 is considered ‘perfect’. In terms of the total power index, India is only behind the United States, Russia, and China, while Pakistan, has risen to the seventh position, entering the top 10 for the first time. Pakistan ranks 7 out of  the145 countries. It holds a Power Index score of 0.1694. India has maintained its fourth position, while Pakistan entered in the top 15 in 2021.

If we talk about war history of both the countries, every time, Pakistan, had considered itself much more powerful than it really was, and it led to its humiliating setbacks many a times and in order to prove its capabilities Pakistan has used its cheap tactics by birthing terrorism in its own country and that has also put peace of India in peril multiple times.

But one most advantageous point to Indian Army is that their main and only task is to focus on their own operations unlike Pak Army which focuses on running businesses and institutions by interfering in politics and aims to topple the democratic government whereas In India, government has absolute control over Army and it always try to come with best of the ideas for the smooth functioning of Indian Armed forces and to make, these two institutions that is, government and Indian armed forces. cooperate well together in order to get best out of them.

Concept of a Perfect Score

A perfect score of the Global Firepower Index is 0.000, but till now no country is able to achieve it as 0.000. All countries are very far from a 0.000 score. The smaller the value of the score means the country is more powerful in the fighting capabilities. The ranking is totally in terms of conventional capabilities, the Global Firepower Index does not take into account nuclear capabilities.

Global Firepower Index of Top 10 Countries

The Global Firepower Index of Top 10 Countries includes United States, Russia, China, India, United Kingdom, South Korea, Pakistan, Japan, France and Italy is mentioned below in the table, you can go through it.