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The Arab League (League of Arab States) is a regional organization in the Arab world. the League has 22 members, but Syria's participation has been suspended since November 2011. Current members: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. The Joint Defence Council of the Arab League is one of the Institutions of the Arab League. The Arab League as an organisation has no military Force but they establish a peacekeeping force.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (North Atlantic Alliance) is an intergovernmental military alliance which was signed in Washington on 4 April 1949. NATO is a system of collective security: its independent member states agree to defend each other against attacks by others countries. NATO's main headquarters are located in Brussels. The following twelve states signed the treaty and became the founding members: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom and United States. The following states joined the treaty after 1949: Greece, Germany, Turkey and Spain. Members who joined after the dissolution of the Soviet Union: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia.

Before and during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, several NATO countries sent army to reinforce the alliance's eastern flank. Alliance had deployed 40,000 troops along its 2,500 kilometres long Eastern flank to deter possible Russian aggression. On 5 July the North Atlantic Alliance members signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland and formally approved the decisions of the NATO summit.

Finland joined the alliance on 4 April 2023.

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Military expenditures

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Military budget: 124 billion $ 1321.7 billion $
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Military budget

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Highest value in the world: 916 billion $ (USA)
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Manpower

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Active personnel: 1,428,550 3,254,339
Reserve personnel: 1,617,000 2,633,732
Available for military: 68,012,996 206,903,543

Active

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Highest value in the world: 2,035,000 (China)
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Land Forces

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Tanks: 7,992 13,142
Armoured fighting vehicles: 33,885 84,043
Total artillery: 9,970 11,885
Self-propelled artillery: 2,372 4,348
Rocket artillery: 2,169 1,828

Tanks

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Highest value in the world: 12,267 (Russia)
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Air Forces

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Total aircraft: 3,859 21,152
Fighter aircraft: 185 932
Multirole aircraft: 603 3,674
Attack aircraft: 314 673
Helicopters: 1,446 8,272
UCAV (combat drone): 52 694

Total aircraft

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Highest value in the world: 13,175 (USA)
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Navy

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Total naval: 493 1,953
Aircraftcarriers: 2 29
Destroyers: 0 121
Frigates: 25 110
Corvettes: 30 55
Submarines: 8 144

Total naval

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Highest value in the world: 967 (North Korea)
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Nuclear weapons

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