Military
Military branches: Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF; includes Army, Navy, and Air Force)
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49 : 876,677 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males: 543,861 (1997 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $278 million (1994)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 5.5% (1994)
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: Israeli troops in southern Lebanon since June 1982; Syrian troops in northern, central, and eastern Lebanon since October 1976
Illicit drugs: small illicit producer of hashish and heroin for the international drug trade; hashish production is shipped to Western Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America; a key locus of cocaine processing and trafficking; a Lebanese/Syrian eradication campaign started in the early 1990s has practically eliminated the opium and cannabis crops ______________________________________________________________________