Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Civil Guard,
National Police, Coastal Civil Guard
Military manpower-military age: 20 years of age
Military manpower-availability: males age 15-49: 10,387,539 (1998 est.)
Military manpower-fit for military service: males: 8,369,756 (1998 est.)
Military manpower-reaching military age annually: males: 323,552 (1998 est.)
Military expenditures-dollar figure: $6.3 billion (1995)
Military expenditures-percent of GDP: 1.4% (1995)
@Spain:Transnational Issues
Disputes-international: Gibraltar question with UK; Spain controls five places of sovereignty (plazas de soberania) on and off the coast of Morocco-the coastal enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, which Morocco contests, as well as the islands of Penon de Alhucemas, Penon de Velez de la Gomera, and Islas Chafarinas
Illicit drugs: key European gateway country for Latin American cocaine and North African hashish entering the European market; transshipment point for and consumer of Southwest Asian heroin