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Air force personnel
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33,000 |
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[15th of 49]
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Armed forces growth
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-21 |
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[93rd of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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159,000 |
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[31st of 166]
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Army personnel
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116,000 |
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[20th of 49]
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Branches
Hellenic Army (Ellinikos Stratos, ES), Hellenic Navy (Ellinikos Polemiko Navtiko, EPN), Hellenic Air Force (Elliniki Polimiki Aeroporia, EPA) |
Conscription
Conscription exists (AI). |
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Conventional arms imports
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$1,434,000,000.00 |
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[3rd of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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4.48 %
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[8th of 145]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$5,890,000,000.00 |
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[7th of 111]
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Forces in Europe > Aircraft
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505 |
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[5th of 24]
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Forces in Europe > Battle Tanks
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1,723 |
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[6th of 24]
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Gulf War Coalition Forces
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200 |
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[25th of 30]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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2,662,210 |
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[70th of 175]
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Navy personnel
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19,500 |
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[22nd of 49]
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personnel
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168,000
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[38th of 170]
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Service age and obligation
19-45 years of age for compulsory military service; during wartime the law allows for recruitment beginning January of the year of inductee's 18th birthday, thus including 17 year olds; 17 years of age for volunteers; conscript service obligation - 1 year for all services; women are eligible for voluntary military service |
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Weapon holdings
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5,488,000 |
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[16th of 137]
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WWII > Jew killed
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54,000
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[8th of 14]
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WWII > Jewish population before war
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70,000
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[8th of 16]
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WWII > Percent of Jew killed
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77
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[3rd of 14]
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SOURCES: Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy; calculated on the basis of data on armed forces from IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies). 2001. The Military Balance 2001-2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 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; "Gulf War Veterans: Measuring Health" by Lyla M. Hernandez, Jane S. Durch, Dan G. Blazer II, and Isabel V. Hoverman, Editors; Committee on Measuring the Health of Gulf War Veterans, Institute of Medicine. Published by The National Academies Press 1999; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC); Wikipedia: The War Against the Jews
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Greece, Hellenic Republic, Elliniki Dhimokratia, Ellas or Ellada
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