Brunei
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Introduction - Brunei: | Location - Brunei: | People - Brunei: | Government - Brunei: | Economy - Brunei: | Communications - Brunei: | Transportation - Brunei: | Military - Brunei: | Military branches | Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF): Royal Brunei Land Forces, Royal Brunei Navy, Royal Brunei Air Force (Tentera Udara Diraja Brunei) (2005) | | Military service age and obligation | 18 years of age (est.) (2004) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 18-49: 103,885
females age 18-49: 93,024 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 18-49: 85,045
females age 18-49: 77,436 (2005 est.) | | Manpower reaching military service age annually | males age 18-49: 3,478
females age 18-49: 3,342 (2005 est.) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 4.5% (2006) | | Disputes international | Brunei and Malaysia are still considering international adjudication over their disputed offshore and deepwater seabeds, where hydrocarbon exploration was terminated in 2003 international legal adjudication; Malaysias land boundary with Brunei around Limbang is in dispute; Brunei established an exclusive economic fishing zone encompassing Louisa Reef in the southern Spratly Islands in 1984, but makes no public territorial claim to the offshore reefs; the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea has eased tensions in the Spratly Islands but falls short of a legally binding code of conduct desired by several of the disputants | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |