Abstract:

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an international military alliance against the expansionist policy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, established by 12 countries on 12 April 1949. Later, 17 more countries joined the alliance. The most important actors of NATO are the member states themselves. For this reason, it is of great importance that NATO countries have strong armies for the organization. The aim of this study is to rank the military forces of NATO countries with Multi Criteria Decision Making Methods. The military forces of 27 NATO countries were evaluated based on Entropy based SAW and ARAS methods and compared with the ranking prepared by Global Firepower site. The rankings obtained according to both methods support each other. While the United States was placed on the top of all three ranking, Turkey stayed in the second rows of the rankings of SAW and ARAS methods.

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