It's a meaningless point for discussion really, but... It makes a lot more sense to think about alliance power in terms of potential military might and potential allied military might. What you are measuring, if you are thinking about military power, is the amount of force that a particular alliance can bring to a war.
Of course, you have no real way to measure effectiveness. If alliance A has potential military might of 100, and alliance B has 80, but alliance B is far more effective at coordination... Then A will lose. But wars are so far apart and effectiveness so variable that you couldn't really measure it well.
Orbis Times® - Alliance Affairs Edition 2
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It's a meaningless point for discussion really, but... It makes a lot more sense to think about alliance power in terms of potential military might and potential allied military might. What you are measuring, if you are thinking about military power, is the amount of force that a particular alliance can bring to a war.
Of course, you have no real way to measure effectiveness. If alliance A has potential military might of 100, and alliance B has 80, but alliance B is far more effective at coordination... Then A will lose. But wars are so far apart and effectiveness so variable that you couldn't really measure it well.