The Calculation of Countries' Military Power Using Their National Power Formulas

On the international arena, countries are seeking increased power and exerting influence over other countries in order to impose their own wills over them only to get to their intended interests. Sometimes, this struggle of power takes on a harsh face, and evolves into a total war. Having this in mind, the scientists of politics and geopolitics have been making their efforts to determine the factors that generate power for countries, as well as measure the extent to which they have power in relation to each other, particularly in the field of military power, in which the result of the efforts made by the scientists has been the definition of various formulas for measuring the countries’ power including military power. This article tries, in the process of conducting fundamental-applied research, to study the formulas and the definitions presented for measuring power in addition to using the library resources, and to establish, by using the descriptive-analytical method, whether or not a country’s power can be assessed in relation to another country by using those formulas in the real world. The researchers finally concluded that the available formulas are unlikely to carefully assess a country’s power over that of another country, hense setting forth the following formula by referencing to the conducted researches:MP= UP.NP/100(AP+GP+SP+PP+RP+ARP+HFP)+NW±WW+NDT+NWG