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Liberia vs. Guinea

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LiberiaGuinea
Military branchesArmed Forces of Liberia (AFL): Army, Liberian Coast Guard (2021)

note - an AFL Air Wing is under development; it was previously disbanded in 2005, but two Liberian pilots completed training by the Nigerian Air Force in 2018		National Armed Forces: Army, Guinean Navy (Armee de Mer or Marine Guineenne), Guinean Air Force (Force Aerienne de Guinee), Presidential Security Battalion (Battailon Autonome de la Sécurité Presidentielle, BASP), Gendarmerie (2020)
Military service age and obligation18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2019)no compulsory military service (2021)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP0.5% of GDP (2019)

0.4% of GDP (2018)

0.4% of GDP (2017)

0.4% of GDP (2016)

0.4% of GDP (2015)		2% of GDP (2019)

2.3% of GDP (2018)

2.5% of GDP (2017)

2.5% of GDP (2016)

3.3% of GDP (2015)
Military and security service personnel strengthsthe Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) have approximately 2,000 personnel (2020)Guinean National Armed Forces are comprised of approximately 12,000 active personnel
(9,000 Army; 400 Navy; 800 Air Force; 300 BASP; 1,500 Gendarmerie) (2020)
Military equipment inventories and acquisitionsthe AFL has almost no significant combat hardware as nearly all aircraft, equipment, materiel, and facilities were damaged or destroyed during the country's civil war; it has received little new equipment outside of ammunition, small arms, and trucks from China in 2008, and boats and vehicles donated by the US in the 2010s (2020)the inventory of the Guinean military consists largely of ageing and outdated (mostly Soviet-era) equipment; since 2010, it has received small amounts of equipment from France, Russia, and South Africa (2020)
Military deployments150 Mali (MINUSMA) (Jan 2021)660 Mali (MINUSMA) (Jan 2021)

Source: CIA Factbook