Map of the world. Because the post–World War II Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan prohibits the latter from having offensive military capabilities, the U.S. is pledged to protect the nation from attack. A perfect PwrIndex score is 0.0000 which is realistically unattainable in the scope of the GFP formula.”, The website further explains that the scores are adjusted by a variety of modifiers. “Nuclear stockpiles are NOT taken into account but recognized / suspected nuclear powers are given a bonus,” GlobalFirepower says. (No “American blood” was expended to save Israel when a coalition of Arab armies attacked it in 1948. While GlobalFirepower.com’s formula is opaque, it is likely that the website is using many traditional factors to calculate its scores. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the United States spends roughly $36 billion annually on military capabilities in Europe, almost 10 times its annual assistance package to Israel. Read: AIPAC is losing control of the narrative on Israel. (Picture: Metro.co.uk) A breakdown of Iran’s military power. “It was the third year in a row that Israel fell in the site’s ranking, falling one spot from the previous year and down five spots when it ranked 11th in 2016,” noted the Jerusalem Post. Yet for some reason, none of these alliances engenders anywhere near the same sort of antipathy as does the one between the United States and the world’s only Jewish state. The United States made a similar pledge to South Korea following a war in which 30,000 Americans died defending it from an invasion by the Communist North Korea. How exactly does GlobalFirepower calculate these scores? The U.S. underwrites some of Israel's research and development of weapons, and has contributed significant amounts of money to Israeli defense projects such as the Merkava main battle tank and the IAI Lavi ground-attack aircraft. Iran has almost 100 times Israel’s landmass and much, much more oil. Show map. Also in The New York Times, Nathan Thrall of the International Crisis Group states that Israel receives from Washington “more military financing than the United States provides to the rest of the world combined.” An organization ominously named If Americans Knew complains that “the U.S. provides Israel $10.5 million in military aid each day, while it gives the Palestinians $0 in military aid.”. What AIPAC does do, like any interest group, is encourage its politically active membership to back candidates who pledge support for its agenda. It is not all that spectacular compared with U.S. defense arrangements with the dozens of countries it is obliged to defend, up to and including with weapons of mass destruction. Pakistan vs Israel - Military Power Comparison 2017 (Latest Updates) - Duration: 4:34. Israel is widely believed to have nuclear weapons, while Iran has tried to develop them in the past, and may or may not be close to developing them now, depending on whom you ask. Map of the world. Always in a state of readiness, the nation of Israel fields one of the most capable military forces in the world - despite its size. In Asia, the United States has some 30,000 troops based in South Korea, where they lie in easy range of a bellicose, nuclear-armed dictatorship to the north. Across the entire Pacific theater, the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force have about 400,000 American soldiers and civilians deployed to contain a rising China, respond to natural disasters, and deter a nuclear-armed Pyongyang. Visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. Israel ranked sixteenth, with a military power rating of 0.3444. One of the country’s most influential lobbies, AIPAC has long been the subject of avid (and conspiratorial) condemnation by those who dislike the role it plays in sustaining bipartisan support for the Jewish state.