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Laos
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Military
in Laos
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Military
branches:
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Lao
People's Armed Forces (LPAF): Lao
People's Army (LPA; includes Riverine
Force), Air Force (2010)
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Military
service age and obligation:
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18
years of age for compulsory military
service; minimum 18-month conscript
service obligation (2010)
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Manpower
available for military service:
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males age
16-49: 1,633,725
females
age 16-49: 1,654,235
(2010 est.)
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Manpower
fit for military service:
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males age
16-49: 1,056,050
females
age 16-49: 1,121,640
(2010 est.)
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Manpower
reaching militarily significant age annually:
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male: 77,910
female: 77,761
(2010 est.)
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Military
expenditures:
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0.5% of
GDP (2006)
country
comparison to the world:
164 |
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Military
- note:
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serving
one of the world's least developed
countries, the Lao People's Armed Forces (LPAF)
is small, poorly funded, and ineffectively
resourced; its mission focus is border and
internal security, primarily in countering
ethnic Hmong insurgent groups; together with
the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and the
government, the Lao People's Army (LPA) is
the third pillar of state machinery, and as
such is expected to suppress political and
civil unrest and similar national
emergencies, but the LPA also has upgraded
skills to respond to avian influenza
outbreaks; there is no perceived external
threat to the state and the LPA maintains
strong ties with the neighboring Vietnamese
military (2008)
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