The GFP study has taken in an account of 50 different factors of military power. The key factors include manpower, land systems, air power, naval power, resources, logistics, finance, geography, and physical infrastructures. Out of all, military manpower is the central factor for ranking. Beside above factors, nuclear capability is not taken into account.Also, GFP has ranked top 10 nations with influential military strength as ‘super power’. On the super power ranking, US comes atop Russia followed by China. Similarly, the super power countries descending from fourth to tenth ranking are: India, UK, France, Germany, Turkey, South Korea and Japan. Previously, in the GFP 2013 World Military Strength Ranking, Nepal was on 64th position among 68 different nations. Whilst Nepal has climbed up in the world military ranking, the GFP study has put forward that Nepal lags behind in competence with other nations, particularly in military physical infrastructure strength.
