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CMP Update: World's Top 10 Militaries of 2021
•�March 29, 2021
•�1,300 Words •�522 Comments
In 2015, I attempted to quantify the military power of the world's states with an index of Comprehensive Military Power. You can read the post, including the detailed methodology, here. Since then, its conclusions - broadly speaking, that China and Russia had about a third of US military power in the mid-2010s, while the next-tier... Read More
Quantifying Everything: the Military Equipment Index 2015
•�September 2, 2020
•�800 Words •�70 Comments
Some researchers (Collin Meisel, Jonathan D. Moyer and Sarah Gutberlet) have recently published a "Military Equipment Index" (MEI) that seeks to provide a comprehensive, quantified, and internationally comparable tally of the military equipment at each country's disposal: “The ultimate yardstick of national power is military capability.” So declared RAND analysts in a monograph on measuring... Read More
The Tank Quotient
•�May 28, 2020
•�1,000 Words •�82 Comments
In the absence of serious wars between serious countries since 1945, it's difficult to approximate the "combat efficiency" of the various national militaries. All that's available, it seems, are reference to history, national IQ, and anecdotal observations. Nonetheless, I think there's a couple of events that could be considered "international standardized tests" for this. Results:... Read More
Comprehensive Military Power: World's Top 10 Militaries of 2015
•�October 18, 2015
•�8,300 Words •�280 Comments
It is in some ways remarkable that there is still no commonly agreed method on quantifying and ranking national military power. There is one such for economics, for instance. It is called the GDP. You can make somewhat different arguments on relative economic size or living standards based on various ways of measuring GDP -... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.