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Introduction - United Kingdom: | Location - United Kingdom: | People - United Kingdom: | Government - United Kingdom: | Economy - United Kingdom: | Communications - United Kingdom: | Transportation - United Kingdom: | Military - United Kingdom: | Military branches | Army, Royal Navy (includes Royal Marines), Royal Air Force | | Military service age and obligation | 16 years of age for voluntary military service; women serve in military services, but are excluded from ground combat positions and some naval postings (2004) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 16-49: 14,607,724
females age 16-49: 14,028,738 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 16-49: 12,046,268
females age 16-49: 11,555,893 (2005 est.) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 2.4% (2005 est.) | | Disputes international | in 2002, Gibraltar residents voted overwhelmingly by referendum to reject any shared sovereignty arrangement between the UK and Spain; the Government of Gibraltar insists on equal participation in talks between the two countries; Spain disapproves of UK plans to grant Gibraltar greater autonomy; Mauritius and Seychelles claim the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory), and its former inhabitants since their eviction in 1965; most Chagossians reside in Mauritius, and in 2001 were granted UK citizenship, where some have since resettled; in May 2006, the High Court of London reversed the UK Governments 2004 orders of council that banned habitation on the islands; UK rejects sovereignty talks requested by Argentina, which still claims the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; territorial claim in Antarctica (British Antarctic Territory) overlaps Argentine claim and partially overlaps Chilean claim; Iceland, the UK, and Ireland dispute Denmarks claim that the Faroe Islands continental shelf extends beyond 200 nm | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |