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Asia > Georgia > Military

GEORGIAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Armed forces personnel 27,000 [88th of 166]
Branches
Georgian Armed Forces: Land Forces, Navy (includes coast guard), Air and Air Defense Forces, National Guard
Conscription
Conscription exists (FWCC).
Conventional arms exports $20,000,000.00 [27th of 40]
expenditure > % of GDP 3.15 % Time series [17th of 145]
Expenditures > Dollar figure $23,000,000.00 Time series [12th of 111]
Forces in Europe > Aircraft 7 [24th of 24]
Forces in Europe > Battle Tanks 86 [25th of 24]
Forces in Europe > Helicopters 3 [23rd of 22]
Iraq coalition forces > Troop strength 558 [9th of 10]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 1,302,820 [109th of 175]
Manpower > Military age 18 years of age Time series
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 35,917 Time series [119th of 226]
personnel 23,000 Time series [97th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 1.02 % Time series [82nd of 168]
Service age and obligation
18 to 34 years of age for compulsory and voluntary active duty military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months
Weapon holdings 377,000 [91st of 137]
WMD > Missile
Georgia subscribes to the International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation and does not possess ballistic missile systems.
WMD > Nuclear
Georgia is home to three nuclear research institutes. The Andronikashvili Institute of Physics in Tbilisi houses a nonoperational IRT-M research reactor. All fresh and spent fuel was transferred from the reactor facility to Scotland in April 1998 under a multinational effort known as Operation Auburn Endeavor. The High Energy Physics Institute in Tbilisi is not known to house fissile material. The Sukhumi I. Vekua Institute of Physics & Technology (SIPT) was relocated from Sukhumi to Tbilisi due to the Abkhazian conflict. There are reports that SIPT once housed isotope production reactors and/or 2kg of 90% enriched uranium, though the whereabouts of the HEU is not known. Georgia is party to both the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. In addition, on 6 June 2003, Georgia ratified an Additional Protocol to the NPT.
WMD > Overview
Independent for three years (1918-1921) following the Russian revolution, Georgia was forcibly incorporated into the USSR until the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. As part of its Soviet legacy, Georgia possesses a decommissioned nuclear reactor and three nuclear research institutes, as well as a number of military bases contaminated with radioactive waste. Nonproliferation issues concerning Georgia stem primarily from the area of export controls. Georgia does not possess or produce nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons, but the country's industrial and medical sectors use components that could also be used in WMD systems.

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SOURCES: IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies). 2001. The Military Balance 2001-2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, 1997. Data collected from the nations concerned, unless otherwise indicated. Acronyms: Amnesty International (AI); European Council of Conscripts Organizations (ECCO); Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC); International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHFHR); National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors (NISBCO); Service, Peace and Justice in Latin America (SERPAJ); War Resisters International (WRI); World Council of Churches (WCC); SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute). 2005. SIPRI Arms Transfers. Database. February. Stockholm.; World Development Indicators database; Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE): A Review and Update of Key Treaty Elements (US Department of State: Washington, DC, Jan. 2002). Joint Consultative Group (JCG), Group on Treaty Operation and Implementation, JCG document JCG.TOI/22/03, 23 June 2003; US Department of Defense. The Brookings Institution Iraq Index, April 24, 2006.; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC); The Nuclear Threat Initiative

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Georgia, Sak'art'velo

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