It's all ms a second largest and fastest-growing religion in the entire world not surprisingly
There are many nations that are identified as Muslim nations
But which of these countries are the most powerful when it comes to military power welcome everybody what's happening?
My name is Leroy Kenton and thanks for coming back to another episode of FTD facts here
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Now for this episode in determining the power of each of these countries, I just look at the military strength
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So you'll be notified of new videos like this now in this episode. I'm gonna be covering ten nations
But they're not ranked in any particular order
the first country I'm talking about is
Morocco and the latest numbers showed that they had a defense budget of three point four six billion dollars
Morocco's total population is 33 million nine hundred and eighty six thousand six hundred and fifty five
it's available manpower is seventeen million with three hundred and seventy three thousand total military personnel and
198,000 active personnel as reserve personnel
they have one hundred and seventy five thousand people, but it's really
challenged because it has one of the lowest defence budgets in the entire Middle East the country's military has been heavily engaged with the
Disputed Western Sahara territory as well as patrolling its long borders recently
It also supported the saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen
So a lot going on for them, but with that defense
But it's just a big stretch on to Syria with a defense budget of one point eight seven billion dollars after
more than six years of a lot of fighting Syria's military is a
shadow of what it used to be but I mean
These guys are fighters syria has a total population of eighteen million
Twenty eight thousand five hundred and forty nine people and they have an available manpower of eleven million six hundred
thousand men the total military personnel sits at do you hundred four thousand under that they're active personnel is
154,000 and their reserve personnel sits at a hundred and fifty thousand its military is bolstered by Iranian militias
Russian forces and local private militias who keep the Assad regime after suffering from heavy losses
Rampant desertion and general fatigue just being involved in so many wars
now the next country I want to look at is Malaysia with a total defence budget of
4.7 billion dollars while Malaysia has never fought in a
Conventional conflict or war before it does boast a modern military with a balanced strategic posture between naval strength
Technology as well as air superiority
The country of Malaysia has a population of 31 million three hundred eighty one thousand nine hundred and two people and they have an available
manpower of 15
million
their turtle military personnel is four hundred and twenty thousand and that's broken up into active personnel which sits at
110 thousand as well as reserve personnel that sits at three hundred and ten
Thousand but one conflict that Malaysia is involved in is the dispute over China's claim over the South China Sea
Malaysia is also an active member of the UN peacekeeping
forces while struggling with financial limitations and currency
instability its military continues to grow and modernize it faces a challenge of matching assets that are
Incompatible with the domestic and international threats that they're facing the next Middle Eastern country
I want to look at is Algeria now. They have a much higher defence budget than their previous nations
They set at ten point six billion dollars
Algeria is the largest Arab country by size and has invested steadily in its military since it achieved independence
Algeria's population is 40 million nine hundred sixty nine thousand four hundred and forty three and out of their total
population their available manpower is twenty million four hundred thousand people currently their total military personnel is
792 thousand three hundred and fifty and out of that their active personnel is five hundred twenty thousand and the reserve personnel is
272 thousand three hundred and fifty the Algerian People's National
Army has been on active footing since its founding first fighting for independence a civil war dubbed the black decade
Followed by more than two decades protecting its major borders
It's also the only country aside from China that obtained the Russian
s400
Missile system and it's one of the best air defense systems that's currently out there
Algeria has troublesome borders with neighbors including Libya Mali and it also actively supports the Polisario Front
Which seeks the independence of the disputed territory of Western Sahara from the country of Morocco now
Let's fly over to Saudi Arabia
They have a defense budget of 69 point 4 1 billion
dollars the Saudi Arabian military is the best armed defense military in the region Saudi Arabia has a huge population of
28 million five hundred seventy one thousand seven hundred and seventy people now. It's total military personnel sits at
256 thousand and they have
231 active personnel and 25 thousand personnel in reserve in the past year
It has fought an intense war in Yemen as a head of an allied coalition while Yemen has been a proving ground for its military
The drawn-out war has drawn
Significant international condemnation over the heavy human toll that it's been taken as well as humanitarian
Concerns we have famine. We got disease going on there and the country is just really ravaged by war
So we're halfway there now and it's time to look at Pakistan
Pakistan has an estimated defence budget of seven billion dollars Pakistan's military is very robust and has a long-standing
military tradition and in recent years
It has leveraged stronger engagement with Saudi Arabia and China to modernize its forces with heavy military
Technology exchange and weapons development
The population at Pakistan is an estimated two hundred and four million
Nine hundred and twenty-four thousand eight hundred and sixty-one their total military personnel is almost a million at nine hundred and nineteen
thousand people and when you break it down six hundred and thirty-seven thousand our active per now and
282,000 are reserve personnel when you look at Pakistan
operationally Pakistan boasts
One of the largest armies in the region with a strong combined arms doctrine supported by a powerful
Intelligence service and a consistent drive to develop defense industry capacities and manufacture modern firearms and ammunition
It is also one of the few countries in the region with nuclear capability the Arms Control Association puts Pakistan's nuclear
stockpile at about a hundred and forty weapons
So if that number they have the six largest nuclear arsenal in the entire world now
I want to look at the country of Indonesia
They have an estimated defence budget of six point nine billion dollars with Indonesia set to become the world's fourth largest economy
By the year 2050 its military continues to grow in leaps and bounds
Aside from its active-duty personnel. It is home to an additional two hundred eighty one thousand power military personnel
so that's a lot of people Indonesia has an even larger population in Pakistan sitting at
260 million five hundred and eighty thousand
739 people their available manpower is 130 million and their total military personnel sits at
975 thousand seven hundred and fifty their active personnel is
435 thousand seven hundred and fifty people and reserve personnel is five hundred and forty thousand when you look at their manpower the
Economy and their political clout that's more than enough to ensure
Internal stability and growth recently Indonesia applied for an anti access area denial
Which is commonly called an A to D to strategy and that gave Indonesia even more leverage over its neighboring countries
Indonesia's modernize capabilities may in fact be the precursor to
Larger regional ambitions in its future we have three more nations to look at and the third final one is the country of Iran
Iran has a defense budget of fourteen billion dollars with more men in arms than any other country in the Middle East with an
additional
125,000 in its Islamic
Revolutionary Guards corpse based on the latest estimates around
Population is a two million twenty one thousand five hundred and sixty four and out of their total population
They have 47 million people as available manpower
Now their actual total military personnel sits at nine hundred and thirty four thousand and that's divided into active personnel
Which is a total of five hundred and thirty four thousand and reserve personnel at four hundred thousand
Iran has also been able to effectively manage a large militias while aligning them with its overall
powerful military posture through tried-and-tested embedded officers and leadership over years of
Sanctions Iran developed a significant national defense industry and made major
Progress towards becoming a nuclear State and their Armed Forces just proved to be very strong
Iran has even provided extensive technical and military support to the Assad regime in Syria
as well as support in Yemen the second last country I'm looking at is Egypt with a defense budget of
2.7 billion dollars Egypt has a total population of 97 million forty one thousand and seventy two
People their available manpower is 42 million egypt's total military personnel is at 1 million 329 thousand
250 with
454 thousand two hundred and fifty as active personnel and
875,000 as reserve personnel with the rise of the president Abdel Fattah al-sisi
The Egyptian military has been given free reign to expand and embed itself in nearly every aspect
of Egyptian society on top of having a larger defense budget tax
Exemptions and lucrative private contracts the Egyptian military has made major progress
In modernizing its military since Sisi took power with gradual
procurements of new state-of-the-art weapons as well as revamped supply chains and more attention given to its
Navy Egypt is still struggling. However to deal with the insurgents in the Sinai, Peninsula
For several years and the last but not least country that we got to look at is the country of Turkey
Turkey's defense budget sits at ten point two billion dollars
The total population of Turkey is 80 million eight hundred and forty five thousand
215 and they have an available manpower of 41 million six hundred and forty thousand people their total military
Personnel is at seven hundred and ten thousand five hundred and sixty-five
With the active personnel at three hundred and fifty thousand and reserve personnel at three hundred sixty thousand five hundred and sixty-five
Turkeys Armed Forces have been active for a number of years on top of its heavy presence in Syria
Turkey has developed a strong defense industry
Manufacturing autonomous armed drones sitter the art cruise missiles on top of that a cutting-edge indigenous battle tank and battle-tested
attack
helicopters ready to roll while turkey ranks as a
Strongest military force in the Muslim world and the Middle East he was also ranked in the ninth spot
Overall, like for all the countries in the entire world, ok guys
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