Military branches: Army, Air Force, Presidential National Guard,
Security Forces (internal and border troops)
Military manpower-military age: 18 years of age
Military manpower-availability: males age 15-49: 1,432,800 (1998 est.)
Military manpower-fit for military service: males: 1,174,683 (1998 est.)
Military manpower-reaching military age annually: males: 62,558 (1998 est.)
Military expenditures-dollar figure: 180 billion rubles (1995); note-conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results
Military expenditures-percent of GDP: 3.4% (1995)
@Tajikistan:Transnational Issues
Disputes-international: most of the boundary with China in dispute; territorial dispute with Kyrgyzstan on northern boundary in Isfara Valley area
Illicit drugs: limited illicit cultivation of cannabis and opium poppy, mostly for domestic consumption; increasingly used as transshipment point for illicit drugs from Southwest Asia to Russia and Western Europe