Military Morocco
Military branches:
Royal Armed Forces: Army, Navy, Air Force
Military manpower - military age and obligation: 18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months (2004)
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 8,788,971 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 5,529,267 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 352,711 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$2,297.2 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
4.8% (2003)
Transnational Issues Morocco
Disputes - international:
claims and administers Western Sahara whose sovereignty remains
unresolved - UN-administered cease-fire has remained in effect since
September 1991, but attempts to hold a referendum have failed and
parties thus far have rejected all brokered proposals; Morocco
protests Spain's control over the coastal enclaves of Ceuta,
Melilla, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera, the islands of Penon de
Alhucemas and Islas Chafarinas, and surrounding waters; Morocco also
rejected Spain's unilateral designation of a median line from the
Canary Islands in 2002 to set limits to undersea resource
exploration and refugee interdiction, but agreed in 2003 to discuss
a comprehensive maritime delimitation; Morocco serves as one of the
primary launching areas of illegal migration into Spain from North
Africa