Power can be measured in many ways, but nothing says strength quite like a whopping great fighting force – and these countries have the mightiest militaries in the world.

Everyone has to start to somewhere and even world leaders had their awkward years. But you’ll never guess just how awkward these heads of state looked long before they came to power.

With great power comes great responsibility and these people have the greatest control of all. From political leaders to business CEOs, these 20 figures have the planet’s fate in their grasp.

Robert Budd Dwyer arrived with a seemingly unremarkable envelope. Its contents, however, held a terrible secret, and the day would end in horror.

We can imagine nothing cooler than getting a codename from the Secret Service. However, we wonder if these influential figures were pleased with their bizarre descriptors…