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Spanish Armed Forces Fuerzas Armadas Españolas
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Service branches	Spanish Army Spanish Navy Spanish Air Force Military Emergencies Unit Spanish Royal Guard
Headquarters	Madrid, Spain
Leadership
Supreme Commander	Juan Carlos I
Minister of Defence	Pedro Morenés[1]
Chief of the Defense Staff	General Admiral Fernando García Sánchez[2]
Manpower
Military age	18
Active personnel	123,300[3]
Reserve personnel	16,200
Expenditures
Budget	€ 5.937 billion (Ranked 130th)
Percent of GDP	0.6% (2012)[4]
Industry
Foreign suppliers	European Union  United States  Germany  France  Italy  Israel
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The Spanish Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Españolas, FFAA) are the military forces of the Kingdom of Spain. The Spanish Armed Forces are a modern military force charged with defending the Kingdom's integrity and sovereignty. They consist of the Army, Navy and Air Force. The Monarch is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, with the title jefe supremo de las fuerzas armadas (Supreme Chief of the Armed Forces) The current Chief of the Defence Staff is General Admiral Fernando García Sánchez. The Armed Forces are active members of NATO, the Eurocorps, the European Union Battlegroups as well as providing peace keeping troops to the United Nations.

History [edit]

The military history of Spain includes the history of battles fought in the territory of modern Spain, as well as her former and current overseas possessions and territories, and the military history of the Spanish people regardless of geography.

Today [edit]

The three main branches of the Spanish armed forces are as follows;^[5]

• Spanish Army: 75,000
• Spanish Navy: 20,800
• Spanish Air Force: 20,300

References [edit]

Further reading [edit]

• Jane's Defence Weekly, Country Survey: Spain, JDW 18 April 1992, p. 655-onwards

External links [edit]

• (Spanish) Foro Militar General - Spanish Military forum

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