Can you guess the ten most powerful militaries?

http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2016/04/22/ten_most_powerful_militaries_in_the_world_109291.html

Eric Fanning, to be nominated first openly gay U.S. Secretary of Army

Fanning, 47, has been a specialist on national security issues for more than two decades and has played a key role overseeing some of the Pentagon’s biggest shipbuilding and fighter jet programs. Now he will oversee an Army that has been battered by the longest stretch of continuous combat in U.S. history and is facing potentially severe budget cuts.

Washington Post 

Wikipedia has Eric Fanning's impressive bio.

WSJ commenters don't like it one single bit.

They're not particularly clever, the unhappy commenters. Nobody said anything about not ever wearing but still liking very much a man in uniform. 

There must be a ton of qualified people to choose from when you think about it, a bewilderingly large choice of good people available, who then is groomed for higher positions and who selected for them becomes a matter of selecting along lines that do not bear on job effectiveness, they're all similar for the most part with the very rare genius, rather, other values are indulged that do not bear on performance and this template or pattern of choosing statistical outliers followed consistently for political reasoning so that over time public servants in no wise resemble the actual public. 

On the other hand, he really could be the standout best. I don't know.

Good luck. His career arc is surprisingly rapid. He was made undersecretary of the Army only a few months ago. Undersecretary of Army to Secretary of Army in three and half months. Schwing. Like a piece on a game board moved by a hand from above.