Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 2,116,002 (2003 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$276.7 billion (FY99 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
3.2% (FY99 est.)
Military - note:
note: 2002 estimates for military manpower are based on projections
that do not take into consideration the results of the 2000 census
Transnational Issues United States
Disputes - international:
prolonged drought in the Mexico border region has strained
water-sharing arrangements; 1990 Maritime Boundary Agreement in the
Bering Sea awaits Russian Duma ratification; maritime boundary
disputes with Canada at Dixon Entrance, Beaufort Sea, Strait of Juan
de Fuca, and around the disputed Machias Seal Island and North Rock;
The Bahamas have not been able to agree on a maritime boundary; US
Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased from Cuba and only mutual
agreement or US abandonment of the area can terminate the lease;
Haiti claims Navassa Island; US has made no territorial claim in
Antarctica (but has reserved the right to do so) and does not
recognize the claims of any other state; Marshall Islands claims
Wake Island
Illicit drugs:
consumer of cocaine shipped from Colombia through Mexico and the
Caribbean; consumer of heroin, marijuana, and increasingly
methamphetamine from Mexico; consumer of high-quality Southeast
Asian heroin; illicit producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants,
stimulants, hallucinogens, and methamphetamine; money-laundering
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This page was last updated on 18 December, 2003
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