Military of Croatia

Croatia's military is officially called "Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia" (Oružane Snage Republike Hrvatske) and it consists of these branches:

• ground forces (Hrvatska kopnena vojska)
• naval forces (Hrvatska Ratna Mornarica)
• air and air defense forces (Hrvatsko ratno zrakoplovstvo i protuzračna obrana)

Total active duty members of the armed forces number is 29,000, including about 21,000 conscripts.

Reserves number 111,000 out of which 32,360 on first state of alert. Available males aged 15-49 number 1,081,135, of which 856,946 are technically fit for military service.

Only male citizens are subject to compulsory military service. The number of males reaching military age of 19 is 30,096 per year (2003 est.), at which point they have eight years to enlist either for 6 months in the army or for 8 months in the civil service.

The Croatian military budget was approximately $1.1 billion in 1997 (a little more than 5% of GDP), but it has since been reduced significantly ($520 million or 2.39% of GDP in 2002) and further reduced in 2003 (2,2% of GDP).

See also

• Admiral Flote

External links

• Croatian Armed Forces Official website (http://www.morh.hr/osrh/index_en.asp)
• Unofficial website describing structure and development of Croatian armed forces; army, navy and air force; combat history of individual units, orders of battle and military equipment (http://www.vojska.net/military/croatia/)

hr:Hrvatska vojska

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