Military and security service personnel strengths | limited and varied information; estimated to have up to 40,000 active ANT personnel (approximately 30-35,000 Ground Forces, 5,000 GDSSIE, and a few hundred Air Force); approximately 5,000 National Gendarmerie; approximately 3,000 Nomadic Guard (2023) |
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Military equipment inventories and acquisitions | the ANT is mostly armed with older or secondhand equipment from Belgium, France, Italy, Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Switzerland; in recent years it has received equipment, including donations, from other countries including China, Turkey, and the US (2023) |
Military service age and obligation | 20 is the legal minimum age for compulsory military service for men with an 18-36 month service obligation (information varies); women are subject to 12 months of compulsory military or civic service at age 21; 18-35 for voluntary service (18-25 for officer recruits); soldiers released from active duty are in the reserves until the age of 50 (2023). |
Military deployments | Chad has committed approximately 1,000-1,500 troops to the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) against Boko Haram and other terrorist groups operating in the general area of the Lake Chad Basin and along Nigeria's northeast border; national MNJTF troop contingents are deployed within their own territories, although cross‐border operations are conducted periodically (2024). |
Military expenditures | |
Military Expenditures 2023 | 2.9% of GDP (2023 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2022 | 2.6% of GDP (2022 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2021 | 2.5% of GDP (2021 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2020 | 2.9% of GDP (2020 est.) |
Military Expenditures 2019 | 2% of GDP (2019 est.) |
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