<human>: A friend of mine said his country's military is #3 in the world. It's not a big military or anything, and it seemed pretty subjective without the basis of a lot of military knowledge. The US military is obviously very good, and I would argue extremely skilled, although I don't have any real knowledge to back this up. And this excludes things like having the most nukes, for example, we are talking about the skill of the people enlisted in general.

Followup question: If all of these militaries squared off against one another in a fair way, like in even numbers (no Chinese outnumbering Americans), and even technology (no US having way more nukes than China), maybe like a global paintball war being played with sophisticated vehicles involved in all different types of terrain, and modern weaponry evenly distributed to everyone, who would come out 1st and who would be last in your top 5 list (and why)? 

Pretty loaded question, I'm sure (would be a good tv show though, with paintballs), but I would like to see what you have to say. It could be a royal rumble or a playoffs kinda "paintball" fight, whatever you want to hypothesize.

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<bot>: All things being equal, which countries' servicemen are the top 5 militaries in the world, according to you, and who would be first and last if they all went at it?