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"text": "0.8% of GDP (2020 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2019": {
"text": "0.8% of GDP (2019)"
"text": "0.8% of GDP (2019 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2018": {
"text": "0.7% of GDP (2018)"
"text": "0.7% of GDP (2018 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2015": {
"text": "1% of GDP (2015)"
"text": "1% of GDP (2015 est.)"
},
"Military Expenditures 2014": {
"text": "1.2% of GDP (2014)"
"text": "1.2% of GDP (2014 est.)"
}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
"text": "information varies; approximately 2,000 total active troops (2020)"
"text": "information varies; approximately 2,000 total active troops (2021)"
},
"Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
"text": "the GNA has a limited equipment inventory; since 2000, it has received only a few secondhand items (2021)"
},
"Military service age and obligation": {
"text": "18-25 years of age for male and female voluntary military service (18-22 for officers); no conscription; service obligation 6 months (2020)"
"text": "18-25 years of age for male and female voluntary military service (18-22 for officers); no conscription; service obligation 6 months (2021)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "<p>in 2017, several members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) sent security forces to The Gambia to conduct stability operations and provide assistance and training following the 2016 election; as of 2021, the ECOWAS Mission in the Gambia (ECOMIG) was comprised of about 1,000 military and gendarmerie personnel from Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal; ECOMIG is slated to become a police mission by the end of 2021</p> <p>the Gambian Armed Forces (GAF) traces its origins to the Gambia Regiment of the British Army; established in 1901, the Gambia Regiment was part of the West African Frontier Force (WAFF, later Royal West African Frontier Force or RWAFF) and served in both World Wars, including the British 1944-45 military campaign in Burma; the Gambia Regiment was disbanded in 1958 and replaced by the Field Force, a police paramilitary unit; the Field Force was responsible for The Gambia’s security until the establishment of the Gambian Armed Forces in 1985; in addition, a defense agreement signed in 1965 between The Gambia and Senegal provided mutual assistance in the face of an external threat; from 1981-1989, The Gambia and Senegal formed a Confederal Army that was made up of two-thirds Senegalese and one-third Gambian soldiers</p> <p>the military in Gambia, including the Field Force, has a history of heavy involvement in the country’s politics, including multiple coups or coup attempts and mutinies</p> <p> </p>"