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Military (Georgia)

Military branches: Georgian Armed Forces: Land Forces (includes National Guard), Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces (2006)
Military service age and obligation: 18 to 34 years of age for compulsory and voluntary active duty military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months (2005)
Manpower available for military service: males age 18-49: 1,038,736
females age 18-49: 1,105,910 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service: males age 18-49: 827,281
females age 18-49: 903,791 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually: males age 18-49: 38,857
females age 18-49: 38,238 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 0.59% (2005 est.)
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

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