If it chose to, Japan could become a high-tech military superpower overnight.
They may be engaged in a ruthless attempt to transform themselves into a military and economic superpower.
Today the United States is the world's only military and economic superpower.
"We've known for a long time that the Soviets were a military superpower but not an economic one," he said in an interview.
The advantages of being an unchallengeable military superpower are obvious.
I wanted to try to get a sense of how the world's economic and military superpower managed to become so powerful.
It will not make the European Union a military superpower.
No, the plans for a military superpower should be shelved.
But is it a military superpower that the peoples of Europe need?