Is it some mix of the size of the economy and the population size? Is that a good proxy for military strength? It’s not quite solely about economy yet.
I just realized that I have never taken the expression “superpower” literally, to only be about military strength. I have always just assumed the it also involve cultural and technological influence, and in general “how much do you contribute to the world”. This is probably because I started from the assumption that the US was the only superpower, and then I extrapolated from that.
If you take superpower to just mean the amount of military pressure you can put on other countries, it does make a bit more sense.
Is it some mix of the size of the economy and the population size? Is that a good proxy for military strength? It’s not quite solely about economy yet.
I just realized that I have never taken the expression “superpower” literally, to only be about military strength. I have always just assumed the it also involve cultural and technological influence, and in general “how much do you contribute to the world”. This is probably because I started from the assumption that the US was the only superpower, and then I extrapolated from that.
If you take superpower to just mean the amount of military pressure you can put on other countries, it does make a bit more sense.