Top Ten World Powers

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by PLATO


Not Hardly. Each missle can leave a footprint 50 miles wide by 200 miles long. With corresponding radioactive damage an Ohio could make China pretty sparsley populated pretty quick.

"Footprint" is not the same as complete depopulation.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Throw me in with all the Canucks clamouring for Canada.

Also when you are considering the population of India and China. you have to remember the distribution. Population is not dispersed equally across China or India, but clumps in the cities. If you targetted just the cities you could take out a large propoartion of the population of either China or India.

Oh, and before I forget, I like the sig Cockney.

I'm clamouring against it, actually.

9. Isreal
International influence

What international influence?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Joseph
20 tubes each sub. Each missile carries 10 warheads, 2 ktl each. Used your math. 200 hundred warhead per boat. I will stay with my exaggerated quote.

2 Kilotons is beans. 200 warhead times 2 kilotons is 400 kilotons.

[Joseph]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


Germany and Japan have much larger economies than the UK.

France (I think) is slightly larger.

California is number 6 in the world.
So the USA is no. 1, who is no. 2, 3, 4, and 5.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
France (I think) is slightly larger.

Not anymore. Since a few years, that's UK #4, and France #5. But both economies are very close to each other.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Population is not dispersed equally across China or India, but clumps in the cities. If you targetted just the cities you could take out a large proportion of the population of either China or India.

I don't know about India, but at least 60% of the population in China are in rural areas.

[Ben Kenobi]

I'm clamouring against it, actually.

Well, it's obvious you're masquerading as a Canadian. You'll need to turn in your toque and stick.

[Shi Huangdi]

Spiffor is correct: People are overrating China in ranking of World Powers. China is strong in East Asia, but has little influence in the rest of the world. There really aren't too many nations capable of truly projecting power on a global scale nowadays. I'd say

1) USA
2) UK
3) France
4) Russia
5) China
6) Japan(Would be alot higher if this country had more political will to excercise power)
7) Germany(Military still too land based, becoming basically puppet of France)
8) Italy
9) Netherlands
10) Canada

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


I'm clamouring against it, actually.

9. Isreal
International influence

What international influence?

You know the one that all the Arabs listen to

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Joseph
California is number 6 in the world.
So the USA is no. 1, who is no. 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Huh?

a) California is a lot lower than 6. Closer to 10 (its economy is a similar size to that of Canada)
b) It doesn't count as #6 because it's not a separate country.

The world's largest economies (in order, and guessing)

1) USA
2) China
3) Japan
4) India
5) Germany
6) France
7) Russia
8) Italy
9) Canada (?) Korea (?)

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
Spiffor is correct: People are overrating China in ranking of World Powers. China is strong in East Asia, but has little influence in the rest of the world. There really aren't too many nations capable of truly projecting power on a global scale nowadays. I'd say

1) USA
2) UK
3) France
4) Russia
5) China
6) Japan(Would be alot higher if this country had more political will to excercise power)
7) Germany(Military still too land based, becoming basically puppet of France)
8) Italy
9) Netherlands
10) Canada

Netherlands? Huh? You mean the one with all the windmills?



EDIT: The population of the Netherlands is something like half of Canada's, and their economic output per capita is probably similar or slightly lower. Unless you're claiming they spend twice as much as percentage of their GDP as we do (which would put them at US funding levels, something very few Euro nations are) then they have a smaller military...

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Not anymore. Since a few years, that's UK #4, and France #5. But both economies are very close to each other.

According to the CIA World Fantasybook, France's is slightly larger than the UK's, whcih is no indication of reality of course.

They have been historically very similar in size, yes.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Nuclear Master




You know the one that all the Arabs listen to

Even if they did, that's still only regional influence...

Israel is tiny. It looms large in the ME because all the other actors are pathetic...

[Ted Striker]

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[Spiffor]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
1) USA
2) China
3) Japan
4) India
5) Germany
6) France
7) Russia
8) Italy
9) Canada (?) Korea (?)

More precisely, you should see here and here
I was wrong on China's GDP, it is almost as high as France's and UK's and already bigger than Italy's. In PPP terms, China is second, with half us GDP.