Ilham Aliyev at one of the commando military units

The Global Firepower (GFP) military tracker platform has ranked Azerbaijan 57 among 145 countries considered for the 2023 GFP review. The country’s military was assigned a Power Index score of 0.9391 in the recently updated rankings by the US-based service. According to GFP, a score of 0.0000 is considered “perfect”. Azerbaijan outperformed its regional neighbors Georgia and Armenia, which ranked 84 and 94, respectively.