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The Army is under the authority of the Secretariat of National Defense or SEDENA and is headed by the Secretary of National Defence. It was the first army to adopt (1908) and use (1910) a self-loading rifle, the Mondragón rifle. The Mexican Army has an active duty force of 261,773 men and women in 2024.
Qatar also hosts the largest American military base in the Middle East and in 2017 inaugurated a military attache office in Washington. [7] SIPRI states that Qatar's plans to transform and significantly enlarge its armed forces have accelerated in 2014, and in 2010-14 Qatar was the 46th largest arms importer in the world.
Philippine Army. The Philippine Army ( PA) ( Filipino: Hukbong Katihan ng Pilipinas) is the main, oldest and largest branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), responsible for ground warfare and as of 2021 had an estimated strength of 143,100 soldiers [1] backed by 131,000 ready reserves. [1]
Lebanese Armed Forces. The Lebanese Armed Forces ( LAF; Arabic: القوات المسلحة اللبنانية, romanized : Al-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥa al-Lubnāniyya ), also known as the Lebanese Army [3] ( Arabic: الجيش اللبناني, romanized : Al-Jaish al-Lubnani ), is the military of the Lebanese Republic. It consists of three ...
A para-military gendarmerie, known as the "Mehal-la Jalifianas" and modelled on the French goumieres, was employed within the Spanish Zone. The Royal Armed Forces were created on 14 May 1956, after French Morocco, a French Protectorate, was dissolved. Fourteen thousand Moroccan personnel from the French Army and ten thousand from the Spanish ...
During the 1980s and 1990s, use of email became common in business, government, universities, and defense/military industries. Starting with the advent of webmail (the web-era form of email) and email clients in the mid-1990s, use of email began to extend to the rest of the public. By the 2000s, email had gained ubiquitous status.
The Royal Bhutan Army ( RBA; Dzongkha: བསྟན་སྲུང་དམག་སྡེ་, romanized : bStan-srung dmag-sde) [1] is a branch of the armed forces of the Kingdom of Bhutan responsible for maintaining the country's territorial integrity and sovereignty against security threats. The Druk Gyalpo is the Supreme Commander in Chief ...
In 1989 the Army sent military observers and an infantry battalion to Namibia. Kenya has ranked number 6 out of the 90 countries who contribute military and civilian police to the UN operations. Since 1989, Kenya has contributed military observers, staff officers, civilian police monitors, and infantry troops to various missions.