Tunisian Armed Forces

Tunisian Armed Forces
القوات المسلحة التونسية
Emblem of the Armed Forces
Founded30 June 1956
Service branches Army
Air Force
Navy
HeadquartersTunis
Leadership
Commander-in-ChiefKais Saied
Minister of National DefenseImed Memmich
Inspector General of the Armed ForcesGeneral Abdel Moneim Belati
Personnel
Conscription12 months
Active personnel89,800[1]
Deployed personnel96[1]
Expenditure
Budget$1.35 billion (2023)[1]
Percent of GDP2.45% (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
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HistoryBizerte Crisis
Yom Kippur War
UNAMIR
Battle of Wazzin
ISIL insurgency in Tunisia
RanksMilitary 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

  1. ^ a b c d e f IISS 2020, p. 379.
  2. ^ "Tunisia - Foreign Military Assistance". GlobalSecurity.org. 8 May 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  3. ^ Military Balance 2013, p.406