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Croatia:
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Other pages in this profile of Croatia:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
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Military branches |
Definition Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia (Oruzane Snage Republike Hrvatske, OSRH), consists of five major commands directly subordinate to a General Staff: Ground Forces (Hrvatska Kopnena Vojska, HKoV), Naval Forces (Hrvatska Ratna Mornarica, HRM), Air Force (Hrvatsko Ratno Zrakoplovstvo, HRZ), Joint Education and Training Command, Logistics Command; Military Police Force supports each of the three Croatian military forces (2008) |
Military service age and obligation |
Definition 18-27 years of age for compulsory military service; 16 years of age with consent for voluntary service; 6-month conscript service obligation; full conversion to professional military service by 2010 (2006) |
Manpower available for military service |
Definition males age 16-49: 1,035,712 females age 16-49: 1,037,896 (2008 est.) |
Manpower fit for military service |
Definition - World rank and map males age 16-49: 771,323 females age 16-49: 855,937 (2008 est.) |
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually |
Definition males age 16-49: 27,500 females age 16-49: 25,893 (2008 est.) |
Military expenditures - percent of GDP |
Definition - World rank and map 2.39% (2005 est.) |
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Disputes - international |
Definition dispute remains with Bosnia and Herzegovina over several small disputed sections of the boundary related to maritime access that hinders ratification of the 1999 border agreement; the Croatia-Slovenia land and maritime boundary agreement, which would have ceded most of Pirin Bay and maritime access to Slovenia and several villages to Croatia, remains un-ratified and in dispute; Slovenia also protests Croatia's 2003 claim to an exclusive economic zone in the Adriatic; as a European Union peripheral state, Slovenia imposed a hard border Schengen regime with non-member Croatia in December 2007 |
Refugees and internally displaced persons |
Definition IDPs: 2,900-7,000 (Croats and Serbs displaced in 1992-95 war) (2007) |
Illicit drugs |
Definition transit point along the Balkan route for Southwest Asian heroin to Western Europe; has been used as a transit point for maritime shipments of South American cocaine bound for Western Europe |
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