Military manpower-military age: 17 years of age

Military manpower-availability: males age 15-49: 3,060,954 females age 15-49: 3,010,932 (1998 est.)

Military manpower-fit for military service: males: 1,898,351 females: 1,861,976 (1998 est.)

Military manpower-reaching military age annually: males: 67,200 females: 63,716 (1998 est.)

Military expenditures-dollar figure: $NA

Military expenditures-percent of GDP: roughly 4% (1995 est.)

Military-note: Moscow, for decades the key military supporter and supplier of Cuba, cut off almost all military aid by 1993

@Cuba:Transnational Issues

Disputes-international: US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased to US and only mutual agreement or US abandonment of the area can terminate the lease

Illicit drugs: territory serves as lesser transshipment zone for cocaine bound for the US