Military branches:
Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF): Army, Navy, and Air Force
Military service age and obligation:
18-30 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service;
conscript service obligation - 12 months (2004)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 974,363
females age 18-49: 1,024,273 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 821,762
females age 18-49: 865,770 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$540.6 million (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
3.1% (2004)
Transnational Issues Lebanon
Disputes - international:
Lacking a treaty or other documentation describing the boundary,
portions of the Lebanon-Syria boundary are unclear with several
sections in dispute; since 2000, Lebanon has claimed Shab'a Farms
area in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights ; the roughly
2,000-strong UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has been in place
since 1978
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 405,425 (Palestinian Refugees
(UNRWA)), 20,000-40,000 (Iraq)
IDPs: 17,000 (1975-90 civil war, Israeli invasions), 200,000
(July-August 2006 war) (2006)
Illicit drugs:
cannabis cultivation dramatically reduced to 2,500 hectares in
2002; opium poppy cultivation minimal; small amounts of Latin
American cocaine and Southwest Asian heroin transit country on way
to European markets and for Middle Eastern consumption