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Cuba
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Branches:
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Manpower availability:
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Defense expenditures:
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Note:
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Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) includes ground forces, Revolutionary Navy
(MGR), Air and Air Defense Force (DAAFAR), Territorial Militia Troops (MTT),
and Youth Labor Army (EJT); Interior Ministry Border Guards (TGF),
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males age 15-49 3,065,751; females age 15-49 3,023,997; males fit for
military service 1,909,901; females fit for military service 1,878,768;
males reach military age (17) annually 72,582; females reach military age
(17) annually 69,361 (1995 est.)
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exchange rate conversion - approx. $600 million, 4% of GSP (gross social
product) in 1994 was for defense
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Moscow, for decades the key military supporter and supplier of Cuba, cut off
military aid by 1993