Military Georgia
Military branches:
Ground Forces (includes National Guard), Air and Air Defense
Forces, Maritime Defense Force, Interior Forces
Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service;
conscript service obligation - 18 months (2004)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 1,038,736 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 827,281 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 38,857 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$23 million (FY00)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.59% (FY00)
Military - note:
a CIS peacekeeping force of Russian troops is deployed in the
Abkhazia region of Georgia together with a UN military observer
group; a Russian peacekeeping battalion is deployed in South Ossetia
Transnational Issues Georgia