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Military branches	Royal Barbados Defense Force: Troops Command, Barbados Coast Guard (2007)

Military service age and obligation	18 years of age for voluntary military service; volunteers at earlier age with parental consent; no conscription (2001)

Manpower available for military service	males age 18-49: 71,524 females age 18-49: 72,302 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service	males age 18-49: 54,510 females age 18-49: 54,889 (2005 est.)

Military note	the Royal Barbados Defense Force includes a land-based Troop Command and a small Coast Guard; the primary role of the land element is to defend the island against external aggression; the Command consists of a single, part-time battalion with a small regular cadre that is deployed throughout the island; it increasingly supports the police in patrolling the coastline to prevent smuggling and other illicit activities (2005)

Military expenditures percent of gdp	0.5% (2006 est.)

Disputes international	in April 2006, the Permanent Court of Arbitration issued a decision that delimited a maritime boundary with Trinidad and Tobago and compelled Barbados to enter a fishing agreement limiting Barbadian fishermens catches of flying fish in Trinidad and Tobagos exclusive economic zone; in 2005, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago agreed to compulsory international arbitration under UNCLOS challenging whether the northern limit of Trinidad and Tobagos and Venezuelas maritime boundary extends into Barbadian waters; joins other Caribbean states to counter Venezuelas claim that Aves Island sustains human habitation, a criterion under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which permits Venezuela to extend its EEZ/continental shelf over a large portion of the eastern Caribbean Sea