100 Most Powerful Militaries of All Time

This video shows the countries that have won the most battles in history, as documented by Wikipedia.

Rules
• Battles are included only if they have a Wikipedia article
• Each country can only have 1 predecessor state at the same time (eg. the UK's predecessor is England, but not Scotland)

Methodology:
I used Wikipedia as a directory of battles:

1. I created a query with Wikidata Query to get the list of all articles tagged as "battle" by Wikipedia. This gives me about 12,000 battles

2. I downloaded the data that is included in the top right hand table of every of those Wikipedia article. I did it for the following versions of Wikipedia: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Slovakian, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Basque, Bulgarian, Romanian, Catalan, Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Persian, Indonesian, Korean

3. I cleaned up the data on Excel to remove double entries :

4. I created an index of countries with their predecessor states:

[othmanmarhfour]

Half america's victories were against themselves in the civil war lol

[sebinho]

What the History say :
1 France
2 UK
3 USA
4 Russia
What Hollywood say :
1 USA
2 USA
3 USA
4 USA
battles won against Nazis, soviets, bristish, arabs, and aliens (always alone).

[joshuastarkloff]

France is the kid in high school that get's constantly made fun of for one mistake, even though they make the honor roll and are a A+ student.

[johnadams]

New Zealand 62 battles? Who did they fight, kiwis?

[brywam]

Napoleon win 57 battle so if napoleon was a country he was been in 37 place

[CaddyJim]

*Blue White Red 🇨🇵*
*Red White Blue 🇬🇧*
*Red White & Blue 🇺🇸*
*White Blue Red 🇷🇺*

[bacon_]

How to become a nation that wins:

Step 1: *Have a blue red and white flag*

[Aistislol]

The funniest part is that 50% of the battles that the UK and France fought were probably against eachother.

[lesbloches]

USA : France surrender country
France : Remind me who gave u life ?

[lenduyo]

UK : OH im strong i think im number 1-

France : Hold my baguette

[yuhno]

I guess the key to winning battles is to only have blue, white, & red color in the flag

[ciaguyy]

Fun fact : Napoleon has more battles won than some countries that exsist 400 years or more.

[TheLegend-kife]

What did we learn kids?
If you have red, blue and white on your flag you probably killed some people.

[Jankesoowski]

As a Pole I just wanted to say:
"No one will ever remember your biggest successes, but they will always remind you about your smallest failures."

[wmroemdoskwq]

Top 1: Blue, White, red
Top2: red, white, blue
Top 3: red, white, blue
Top 4: red, white, blue

[tremon]

Tutorial for your country to get in this top:
1-Start civil war
2-each battle is a win win situation
3-profit

[soulaimaneakdah]

America: "Hey France lets go to war !"

France: "No sorry I can't I'm brok-"

America: "Its against the Briti-"

France: *Intense breathing*

[WhiteAnims]

4:33
Imagine saying that France loves surrendering, but all of the sudden seeing 1115 battles won in first place.

[comment]

When you've won the most battles but everyone remembers you for surrendering
*Not Stonks*

[RapierNeedleCrime]

Isn’t it funny how France losing one war decisively is enough to make everyone think they’re surrendering cowards?