Mohmar Deathstrike
Banned
I think the best measure we have for a military's overall power is it's budget, which reflects the troop size (which on its own, doesn't mean much), the amount of money invested in equipment and training. However, this information does not directly tell us how powerful a military unit of any given size is with respect to units of the same size from other countries. Therefore I propose a new statistic: Defense spending divided by number of active troops. Of course the problem would be that reserve troops would somehow also have to be incorporated. A statistic like that would also reflect to what lengths a government is willing or able to go to protect its own troops. Does anything like this exist out there?