Tunisian Armed Forces | |
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القوات المسلحة التونسية | |
Founded | 30 June 1956 |
Service branches | Army Air Force Navy |
Headquarters | Tunis |
Leadership | |
Commander-in-Chief | Kais Saied |
Minister of National Defense | Imed Memmich |
Inspector General of the Armed Forces | General Abdel Moneim Belati |
Personnel | |
Conscription | 12 months |
Active personnel | 89,800[1] |
Deployed personnel | 96[1] |
Expenditure | |
Budget | $1.35 billion (2023)[1] |
Percent of GDP | 2.45% (2023)[1] |
Industry | |
Foreign suppliers | Australia Brazil China[2] Czech Republic France Germany India Indonesia Italy Poland Russia South Africa Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom United States |
Related articles | |
History | Bizerte Crisis Yom Kippur War UNAMIR Battle of Wazzin ISIL insurgency in Tunisia |
Ranks | Military ranks of Tunisia |
The Tunisian Armed Forces (Arabic: القوات المسلحة التونسية) consist of the Tunisian Army, Air Force and Navy.
As of 2019, Tunisia had armed forces with more than 150,000 active-duty personnel, of which 80,000 were conscripts.[1] Paramilitary forces consisted of a 12,000-member national guard.[1] Tunisia participates in United Nations peacekeeping efforts in the DROC (MONUSCO) and Côte d'Ivoire.[3] Previous United Nations peacekeeping deployments for the Tunisian armed forces have included Cambodia (UNTAC), Namibia (UNTAG), Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia/Eritrea (UNMEE), and the 1960s mission in the Congo, ONUC. AL-fehri AL-akermi Great Britain:FERI AKRIM 19/05/1995