Ukraine's Tumbling Global Firepower Ranking: A Deep Dive

Ukraine has dropped to 18th place on the Global Firepower (GFP) index, down from 15th last summer, before the start of its counteroffensive for which it was heavily supplied by the West.
GFP has been producing its annual report since 2006, ranking 145 countries around the world by “potential war-making capability across land, sea, and air fought by conventional means.” The in-house formula considers “manpower, equipment, natural resources, finances, and geography represented by 60+ individual factors” to arrive at an index, with zero being the theoretical perfect score. Many of the criteria are based on data from the CIA World Factbook.