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172 ThE MiliTary BalancE 2010 royal air Force regiment fORCEs By ROLE Air 3 (tactical Survival To Operate (STO)) sqn + HQ; 7 (fd) sqn Trg 1 (joint) unit (with army) with Rapier C Tri-Service Defence hel School HELICOPTERS : 28 AS-350 Ecureuil; 7 Griffin HT1 Volunteer reserve air Forces (Royal Auxiliary Air Force/RAF Reserve) Air 1 (air movements) sqn; 2 (intelligence) sqn; 5 (field) sqn; 1 (HQ augmentation) sqn; 1 (C- 130 Reserve Aircrew) flt Medical 1 sqn DEPLOyMENT Legal provisions for foreign deployment: Constitution: Uncodified constitution which includes constitutional statutes, case law, international treaties and unwritten conventions Decision on deployment of troops abroad: By the government AfgHANIsTAN NATO • ISAF 9,000 (UK forms 5 BG covering Helmand Province. Ground forces are supported by an air gp of fixed and rotary wing ac.) Army: 1 div HQ (6 th ); 1 lt inf bde HQ (11 th ) with (5 lt inf bn; 1 armd recce regt; 1 fd arty regt; 1 engr regt); 1 GMLRS tp; 1 UAV bty; 1 EOD tp; 1 spt bn; 1 theatre log spt gp; 1 medical bn; 29 Warrior; 130 Mastiff; 12 L-118; 4 GMLRS; 8 AH-64D Apache; 5 Lynx; some Hermes 450; some Predator B; some Desert Hawk Royal Navy: 55 Viking; 6 Sea King HC Mk4 Air Force: 8 Tornado GR4; 4 C-130 Hercules; 8 CH-47 Chinook; 6 HC Mk3 Merlin; 4 Beechcraft King Air 350 Shadow R1 UN • UNAMA 1 obs ARMENIA/AzERBAIJAN OSCE • Minsk Conference 1 AsCENsION IsLAND Air Force 23 ATLANTIC (NORTH) Atlantic Patrol Task (N) Maritime force 1 DD / FF; 1 AO ATLANTIC (sOUTH) Atlantic Patrol Task (S) Maritime force 1 DD / FF; 1 OPV (Falkland Islands Patrol Ship, Ice Patrol (rotational six months)); 1 AO ARABIAN gULf AND INDIAN OCEAN Maritime Security Operations 4 FFG; 1 MCC; 4 MHO; 2 LSD; 1 AORH NATO • Operation Ocean Shield 1 FFG BAHRAIN Air Force 1 BAe-125, 1 BAe-146 BELIzE Army 30 BOsNIA-HERzEgOVINA EU • EUFOR • Operation Althea 9 OSCE • Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 BRITIsH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORy Royal Navy 40 1 Navy/Marine party located at Diego Garcia BRUNEI Army 550; 1 Gurkha bn; 1 jungle trg centre; 1 hel flt with 3 hel CANADA Army 500; 2 trg units Air Force 57 CyPRUs Army 1,678; 2 inf bn; 1 hel flt Navy 42 Air Force 1,071; 1 SAR sqn with 4 Bell 412 Twin Huey; 1 radar (on det) UN • UNFICYP 257; 1 inf coy DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC Of CONgO UN • MONUC 6 obs fALkLAND IsLANDs Army 420; 1 AD det with Rapier FSC Navy 420 Air Force 680; 1 ftr flt with 4 E-F Typhoon FGR.4; 1 SAR sqn with Sea King HAR-3A/Sea King HAR-3; 1 tkr/tpt flt with C-130 Hercules; VC-10 K3/4 gERMANy Army 22,000; 1 army corps HQ, 1 armd div Navy 30 Air Force 320 gIBRALTAR Army 270 (incl 175 pers of Gibraltar regt) Air Force 70 some (periodic) AEW det IRAQ Royal Navy: 75; 1 Navy Transition Team Navy / Cdo team (training the Iraqi Riverine Patrol Service . Air Force: Puma NATO • NTM-I 15 UN • UNAMI 1 obs kENyA Army trg team 52 kUWAIT Army 35 Air Force 6 EH101 Merlin MOLDOVA OSCE • Moldova 1 NATO MARITIME AOR NATO • SNMCMG-1 • 1 MCM /MCMV
NEPAL Army 280 (Gurkha trg org) NETHERLANDs Air Force 120 OMAN Army 40 Navy 20 Air Force 20: 1 Sentinel; Nimrod MR2; 1 Tristar tkr QATAR Air Force 4 C-130J sERBIA NATO • KFOR • Joint Enterprise 8 OSCE • Serbia 3 OSCE • Kosovo 4 sIERRA LEONE IMATT 63 (incl trg team, tri-service HQ and spt) sUDAN UN • UNAMID 1 UN • UNMIS 2 UNITED sTATEs Army/Navy/Air Force ε700 fOREIgN fORCEs naTO Europe 173 United States US European Command: Army 345; Navy 333; USAF 8,596; 1 ftr wg located at RAF Lakenheath with (1 Ftr sqn with 24 F-15C Eagle/F-15D Eagle, 2 Ftr sqn with 24 F-15E Strike Eagle); 1 tkr wg located at RAF Mildenhall with 15 KC-135 Stratotanker; 1 Special Ops gp located at Mildenhall with 5 MC-130H Combat Talon II; 5 MC-130P Combat Shadow; 1 C-130E Hercules; USMC 93 • US Strategic Command: 1 Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) located at Fylingdales Moor; 1 Spacetrack radar located at Fylingdales Moor; Europe (naTO)
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The Military Balance 2010 Editor’
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The Military Balance 2010 Preface T
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Units and formation strength Compan
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Principal Aviation Equipment De�n
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Construction, Research and Developm
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Chapter One North America THE UNITE
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tion execution procedures’. There
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and network kits for the HMMWV. Whi
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tion brigade roughly quintuples the
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light of the forthcoming demographi
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FY2010 National Defence Process In
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North America Table 7 US National D
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Cbt Engr 1 regt MP 4 coy Log 10 bn
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SUDAN UN • UNMIS (Operation Safar
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Engr 4 bde Sig 1 bde Spt 8 spt bde,
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Naval reserve Forces 109,222 (total
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AAV 1,311 AAV-7A1 (all roles) ARTY
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FORCES BY ROLE HQ (AF) 1 HQ located
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FORCES BY ROLE Combined Service 1 H
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IRAQ NATO • NTM-I 12 UN • UNAMI
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Table 8 US Air Capability 2010 Airc
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Table 9 Selected US Arms Orders Fy2
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Chapter Two Latin America and the C
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II RM Mexicali, Baja California Reg
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elationship will be affected follow
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In March 2009, the 12 defence minis
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systems, including 100,000 Kalashni
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previous editions of The Military B
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MRL 105mm 4 SLAM Pampero MOR 883: 8
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WESTERN SAHARA UN • MINURSO 3 obs
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LOGISTICS AND SUPPORT 19: AH 2 TPT
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ABU 6: 1 Almirante Graca Aranah (li
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TOWED 138: 105mm 90 M-101 155mm 48
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Capabilities ACTIVE 285,220 (Army 2
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RECCE 11: 6 Schweizer SA-2-37; 2 B-
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TPT 12: 3 Yak-40; 3 An-24; 2 Il-76;
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PRINCIPAL SURFACE COMBATANTS 8 FRIG
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AIRCRAFT • RECCE 1 O-2A Skymaster
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EQUIPMENT By TyPE AIRCRAFT TPT 1 Y-
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SAR/Tpt 2 flt with 4 AS-355N Ecureu
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FTR 10: 8 F-5E Tiger II; 2 F-5F Tig
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Capabilities ACTIVE 10,650 (Army 7,
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AD SAM • MANPAD 298+: 70 SA-14 Gr
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EQUIPMENT By TyPE AIRCRAFT 4 combat
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DEPLOyMENT AFgHANISTAN UN • UNAMA
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FORCES By ROLE Ftr/FGA 2 gp with Su
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Latin America and the Caribbean Tab
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Chapter Three Europe NATO Towards a
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Table 13 EU Battlegroups year Semes
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in Atalanta can arrest, detain and
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NATO EUROPE - DEfENCE ECONOMICs Eco
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underestimation of programme costs
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Grand Coalition government incremen
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ordered, and there is currently no
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underfunded. In 2008, defence chief
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Albania ALB albanian lek 2008 2009
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Tk 4 bde (each: 3 tk bn, 1 MR (BMP-
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SSM 1 regt with 8 SS-C-1B Sepal AD
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Tpt sqns with An-12 Cub/An-24 Coke/
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Arty 1 bde, SSM 1 bde with 12-18 SS
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Paramilitary 449,000 Federal Border
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Table 22 selected arms procurements
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Chapter Five Middle East and North
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Map 2 iraq BAGHDAD 3 2 1 6 9 XX IA
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governments before Iran was effecti
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key staff from Russia and the UK ow
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system specifically targeted to cou
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Algeria ALG Algerian Dinar D 2008 2
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ORGAnIsAtIOns by seRvICe Army 6,000
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navy ε8,500 (incl 2,000 Coast Guar
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WesteRn sAhARA UN • MINURSO 21 ob
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Air Force 30,000 (incl 12,000 Air D
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Israel ISR New israeli Shekel NS 20
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demOCRAtIC RepUblIC OF COnGO UN •
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AMPHIBIOUS 4 LS 1 LST 1 Ibn Harissa
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Mech Inf 3 bde Inf 35 indep bn Mot
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APC 206 APC (T) 16: 6 FV 103 Sparta
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ARTY 89 SP 155mm 28 (AMX) Mk F3 TOW
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AMPHIBIOUS • LS • LSM 3 Polnoch
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deplOyment CentRAl AFRICAn RepUblIC
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capabilities ACtIve 66,700 (Army 60
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Middle East and North Africa Table
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Middle East and North Africa Table
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Chapter Six Sub-Saharan Africa The
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{ Regions: Deployment of mission HQ
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December 2005) and the democratic e
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training, technical and financial s
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Table 26 South african defence budg
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aircraft and SAM batteries to prote
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paramilitary 10,000 rapid-reaction
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eQuipmenT by Type AIRCRAFT TPT 8: 1
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deploymenT cenTral african republic
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eQuipmenT by Type AIRCRAFT 6 combat
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paramilitary 10,450 Presidential Gu
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djibouti DJB Djiboutian Franc fr 20
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MOR 120mm/160mm 100+ AT MSL • MAN
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eQuipmenT by Type AIRCRAFT 14 comba
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Ranger 1 bn Cdo 1 bn Arty 1 bn Engr
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TRG up to 25: up to 5 Bulldog 103/B
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Liaison sqn with Cessna 310; Cessna
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eQuipmenT by Type RECCE BRDM-2; Fer
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niger NER cFA Franc BceAO fr 2008 2
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paramilitary ε82,000 coast Guard P
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cenTral african republic/chad UN
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puntland Armed Forces ε5-10,000; c
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organiSaTionS by Service army 85,00
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forceS by role Tk 1 bde Inf 5 bde A
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forceS by role Army 5 div (each: up
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GUNS • TOWED 116: 14.5mm 36 ZPU-1
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Chapter Seven South and Central Asi
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Pakistan Democratically elected Pre
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Fonseka resigned as CDS on 12 Novem
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S-300 air-defence batteries, beyond
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AFGHANISTAN International concern g
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Map 3 Afghanistan ISAF/OEF-A 1 RC-C
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Fatalities 500 400 300 200 100 0 US
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SOUTH ASIA - DEFENCE ECONOmICS Afte
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Table 31 Indian Defence Budget by F
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The biggest naval procurement agree
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their finances’ but wish to repla
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Australia 1,350; 1 inf BG with (1 m
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TRG 30: 8 L-39ZA Albatros*; 10 PT-6
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Navy 58,350 (incl 7,000 Naval Avn a
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Mirage/M-2000TH (M-2000ED) Mirage (
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GUN/MOR 120mm 25 2S9 Anona MRL 380:
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Police Force 47,000 SELECTED NON-ST
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Cadres School and PAF Academy are D
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Air Force 28,000 (incl SLAF Regt) F
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HELICOPTERS ATK 10 Mi-24 Hind SPT 8
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South and Central Asia Table 32 Sel
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Chapter Eight East Asia and Austral
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Map 4 China: military regions and m
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JAPAN Japan’s defence policy in
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training and deployments. Naval ele
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months, including that of a C-�
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Australia’s Force 2030: Key capab
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for the ��-year period of the W
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) r
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column C, data are converted into U
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Inf 6 bde HQ (4/5/8/9/11/13) each w
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Brunei BRN Brunei Dollar B$ 2008 20
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Capabilities ACTIVE 2,285,000 (Army
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Navy ε215,000; 40,000 conscript (t
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East Sea Fleet Coastal defence from
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Fiji FJI Fijian Dollar F$ 2008 2009
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TPT 23: 3 CN-235M; 2 DHC-5 Buffalo;
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Maritime Self- Defense Force 42,400
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PCC 60 PC-Type PCI 174: 170 CL-Type
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Tpt regts with An-2 Colt to infiltr
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UTL 5 F406 Caravan II HELICOPTERS A
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Customs Service PATROL AND COASTAL
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FGA 22 A-5M (Q-5II) Fantan TPT 15:
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FOREIGN FORCES Australia Army 38; 1
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TAIWAN (REPUBLIC OF CHINA) Army 3 t
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Fokker 50 • Makung Air Base Comma
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MINE WARFARE • MINE COUNTERMEASUR
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RESERVES 5,000,000 ORGANISATIONS BY
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Chapter Nine Country comparisons -
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Table 36 UN Deployments 2009-2010 l
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Table 37 Non-UN Deployments 2009-20
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Table 37 Non-UN Deployments 2009-20
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index of contributing nations Alban
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Number deployed 110,000 90,000 70,0
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Table 38 Selected training activity
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Country comparisons Table 39 Intern
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Table 43 Global Arms Transfer Agree
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Table 47 Selected Operational Milit
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Chapter Ten Reforming India’s def
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develop a fifth-generation fighter
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Table 48: Major Current Domestic De
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Part two Reference table 49 Designa
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Reference Type Name/designation Cou
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table 50 List of Abbreviations for
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NCO non-commissioned officer NLACM
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Index of Country/Territory Abbrevia
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