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Armed forces personnel
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27,000 |
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[88th of 166]
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Conscription
Conscription exists (FWCC). |
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Conventional arms exports
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$20,000,000.00 |
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[27th of 40]
|
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$23,000,000.00 |
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[146th of 170]
|
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Forces in Europe > Aircraft
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7 |
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[24th of 24]
|
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Forces in Europe > Battle Tanks
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86 |
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[25th of 24]
|
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Forces in Europe > Helicopters
|
3 |
|
[23rd of 22]
|
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Iraq coalition forces > Troop strength
|
558 |
|
[9th of 10]
|
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
|
1,302,820 |
|
[109th of 175]
|
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Manpower > Military age
|
18 |
|
[113rd of 129]
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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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personnel
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23,000
|
...
|
[97th of 170]
|
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personnel > % of total labor force
|
1.02 %
|
...
|
[82nd of 168]
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Service age and obligation
18 to 34 years of age for compulsory and voluntary active duty military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months (2005) |
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Weapon holdings
|
377,000 |
|
[91st of 137]
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WMD > Biological
Although Georgia is not a signatory to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, there is no evidence to suggest that Tbilisi possesses or is developing biological weapons. During the Soviet era, some vaccine manufacturing facilities in Georgia that were part of the Soviet Anti-Plague system possessed dual-use biological weapons production capabilities. The Biokombinat facility, for example, manufactured vaccines for sheep pox, swine plague, and sheep brucellosis, but also doubled as a biological weapons research facility. Under the Nunn-Lugar program, dual-use biological weapons equipment has been dismantled and dangerous pathogens are slated to be housed in a new central pathogen storage facility. |
WMD > Chemical
Georgia is a founding member of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention. There is no evidence to suggest that Georgia possesses or is pursuing chemical weapons. |
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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