military strength is a term that describes a quantification or reference to a nations standing military forces or the capacity for fulfillment of that militarys role for example the military strength of a given country could be interpreted as the number of individuals in its armed forces the destructive potential of its arsenal or both for example while china and india maintain the largest armed forces in the world the us military is considered to be one of the worlds strongest although the certainty of such a claim cannot be ascertained without a detailed analysis of opposing military forces in relation to one another as well as taking into account the fields of battle and tactics used in such a conflict the uk and in some regards israel have also been described as the best trained and operating militaries in the world