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Introduction - Greece: | Location - Greece: | People - Greece: | Government - Greece: | Economy - Greece: | Communications - Greece: | Transportation - Greece: | Military - Greece: | Military branches | Hellenic Army (Ellinikos Stratos, ES), Hellenic Navy (Ellinikos Polemiko Navtiko, EPN), Hellenic Air Force (Elliniki Polimiki Aeroporia, EPA) (2007) | | Military service age and obligation | 18 years of age for compulsory military service; during wartime the law allows for recruitment beginning January of the year of inductees 18th birthday, thus including 17 year olds; 17 years of age for volunteers; conscript service obligation - 12 months for the Army, Air Force; 15 months for Navy; women are eligible for military service (2005) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 18-49: 2,459,988
females age 18-49: 2,442,818 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 18-49: 2,018,557
females age 18-49: 2,000,650 (2005 est.) | | Manpower reaching military service age annually | males age 18-49: 58,399
females age 18-49: 55,571 (2005 est.) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 4.3% (2005 est.) | | Disputes international | Greece and Turkey continue discussions to resolve their complex maritime, air, territorial, and boundary disputes in the Aegean Sea; Cyprus question with Turkey; Greece rejects the use of the name Macedonia or Republic of Macedonia; the mass migration of unemployed Albanians still remains a problem for developed countries, chiefly Greece and Italy | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |