The Strongest militaries in the Muslim world

[Bengal71]

Turkey, Egypt and KSA have stronger militaries than Pakistan.
All three of those countries can fight a conventional war based off of the western playbook to the letter. Pakistan can't do that.

LOL.

You can probably argue about Turkey, Turkey will conventionally as capable as Pakistan. But Egypt and KSA no way.

 

[battalion25]

In this thread we give our ranking of the strongest Muslim militaries. My top 10.

1. Pakistan - By far. Not even contested.

2. Turkey

3. Iran

4. Egypt

5. KSA

6. Indonesia

7. Azerbaijan

8. UAE

9. Yemen

10. Malaysia

This has to be a fuking joke bro..

Iran at third without an airforce and air defense systems you high on mushrooms-

1. Turkey
2. Pakistan
3. Egypt
4. Indonesia
5. KSA
6. Algeria
7. Morocco
8. UAE
9. Malaysia
10. Jordan

Lmao at Yemen!

 

[El Sidd]

Which is a shame, because Indonesia has a comparable population to Pakistan, is a lot more politically stable, has an economy 3 to 4 times the size, yet only has an army that's okay at best.

Even its next gen fighter purchase is a joke, because they keep saying they'll signing deals and MoUs that they break a week after they've signed them.

Indonesia does not need any armed forces. They can hunt whales and save the tiger without use of modern weapons.

 

[ety]

Don't underestimate the Turks, they are very powerful. I would place them above Pakistan excluding the nukes and missile arsenal.

But, they don't have nukes, that's the foremost capability.

 

[Rational Philosopher]

You have to learn to be humble because too much arrogance leads to incompetence and that leads to failure.

Secondly I believe at a strategic thinking cultural level, the Turks are far ahead of us. They think more tactically and of course they benefit from NATO foresight. So we have a long way to go and should definitely focus on this. A modern military is as much as their thought process as it is weapons.

 

[Sinan]

Everyone, hold your hookah pipes!

Pakistan IS #1. Duck.AI says so:

User prompt 2 of 2 - 6/25/2025, 7:13:49 PM:
What are the top 5 Muslim militaries by country?

GPT-4o mini:
As of 2025, the top five Muslim militaries by country, based on their military strength and capabilities, are:

1. **Pakistan**
- **Global Rank**: 12th
- **Military Personnel**: Approximately 1.7 million (active and reserve)
- **Notable Features**: Pakistan has the largest military in the Muslim world and is a nuclear power, which significantly enhances its military standing.

2. **Turkey (Türkiye)**
- **Global Rank**: 9th
- **Military Personnel**: Around 600,000 active personnel
- **Notable Features**: Turkey has a highly advanced military and plays a crucial role in NATO, contributing to its strategic military capabilities.

3. **Indonesia**
- **Global Rank**: 13th
- **Military Personnel**: Approximately 1.05 million (active and reserve)
- **Notable Features**: Indonesia is the largest Muslim-majority country and has a significant military presence in Southeast Asia.

4. **Iran**
- **Global Rank**: 14th
- **Military Personnel**: Estimated at around 1.5 million (including active and reserve)
- **Notable Features**: Iran has a robust military infrastructure and is known for its regional influence and capabilities.

5. **Egypt**
- **Global Rank**: 15th
- **Military Personnel**: Approximately 1.3 million (active and reserve)
- **Notable Features**: Egypt has a long-standing military tradition and is a key player in North Africa and the Middle East.

These rankings reflect a combination of factors, including the size of the military, technological advancements, and strategic capabilities.

These comparison stuff is BS. For example Chatgpt can't find the actual number of Turkish military because it has not been publicized for years. We know Army has 500k, total estimate would be 800k. Reserve is a different issue, Turkey doesn't have Reserve system like US or Germany. Sİnce there is conscription in Turkey. Every male over 20 years old have military experience. In 2-3 months, can muster 2 million soldiers, in a year can muster 9 million troops.

There are to many data to take into consideration this ranking stuff has no meaning at all.

 

[Bengal71]

PAK is #1 for sure, both nukes and conventional.

Regards

Conventionally Turkey is ahead.

 

[Foinikas]

We are not 10 year olds here, keep this ranking stuff for tiktok.

It's like a kid's list

 

[battalion25]

Some of them don´t only rank high in the Muslim but general high. I have seen Tower9 make a very uninformed list he even included Yemen in 9 lmao.

The list is based on armament, airforce, coventional forces, navy, defense systems etc etc.

1. Turkey
2. Pakistan
3. Egypt
4. Indonesia
5. KSA
6. Algeria
7. Morocco
8. UAE
9. Malaysia
10. Jordan

Outside of the 10 you will find as well some decently armed ones but when it comes to armament these 10 are the leading ones but others are catching up.



11. Uzbekistan
12. Azeribaijan (are at world class level armament but below the top 10)
13. Kazakhstan
14. Qatar (Armed to the teeth but has a small armed forces around 300.000 needs to enlarge its forces)
15.Turkmenistan (All these Turkic states are nowadays decently armed thanks to Turkey)
16. Bangladesh (It is slowly coming up with their large manpower base they could easily get into top with better procurement which they are doing currently.
17. Iran (Needs an airforce, air defense systems plus new structure to get rid of 5th elements, they excell at drones and Missiles
18. Tunisia
19. Oman
20. Kuwait
21. IEA (Great potential with the right procurement will shoot straight up with good manpower base and fiercer population)
22. Kyrgestan
23. Taijikistan
24. Albania
25. Bosnia
26. Syria
27. Burakina Faso
28. Niger
29. Senegal
30. Iraq (Iraq is one of the most disorganized country in the Islamic world there is the Kurdistan region and other separate regions from the gov´t within the country hence Iraq is unpredictable)
31. Sudan (Would have been much if not for the civil war)

 

[harpy1]

For me
Turkey
Saudi
Pakistan

For reasons mentioned

Turkey best trained best equipped nato standard self sufficient technology

Saudi highest tech massive wealth for sustained war battle experience you can learn ...but money wealth you can't change

Pakistan ..battle hard massive no's

Nukes are pointless imo
Didn't stop India bombing Pakistan bases
Or Ukraine fighting Russia war for years

 

[ety]

Nukes are pointless imo

Then, why your country not demolish its stockpile, can save lots money too.

 

[Assyrian209]

This is much more accurate..

@tower9 actully put Yemen in top 10

 

[harpy1]

Then, why your country not demolish its stockpile, can save lots money too.

Indians don't see nukes as national power
GDP first over 4 trillion dollars
Forex reserves balance 700 billion
Growth rate sustained 7%
Technology info technology and Artificial intelligence and space programme
Finally military power last

North Korea has nukes they are considered nothing power military wise still

This is why for me Turkey and Saudi are Muslim.super powers

 

[Foinikas]

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Glad to see someone started using the latest Meloni eye-roll as a meme

 

[battalion25]

This is much more accurate..

@tower9 actully put Yemen in top 10

I reduced it to top 31 i don´t wanna go until 50..

Yemen would not even make my top 45 it is a partitioned country