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Military branches:
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Botswana Defense Force
(includes an air wing) (2006) |
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Military service age
and obligation in Botswana:
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18 is the apparent age of
voluntary military service; the official qualifications
for determining minimum age are unknown (2001)
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Manpower available
for military service in Botswana:
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males age 18-49:
350,649
females age 18-49: 361,642 (2005 est.)
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Manpower fit for
military service in Botswana:
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males age 18-49:
136,322
females age 18-49: 136,315 (2005 est.)
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Manpower reaching
military service age annually:
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males age 18-49:
21,103
females age 18-49: 21,379 (2005 est.)
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Military expenditures
of Botswana - percent of GDP:
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3.3% (2006) |
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Disputes involving
Botswana Africa- international:
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the alignment of the
boundary with Namibia in the Kwando/Linyanti/Chobe
River, including the Situngu marshlands, was resolved
amicably in 2003; concerns from international experts
and local populations over the ecology of the Okavango
Delta in Botswana and human displacement scuttled
Namibian plans to construct a hydroelectric dam at
Popavalle (Popa Falls) along the Angola-Namibia border;
Botswana has built electric fences to stem the thousands
of Zimbabweans who flee to find work and escape
political persecution; Namibia has long supported, and
in 2004 Zimbabwe dropped objections to, plans between
Botswana and Zambia to build a bridge over the Zambezi
River, thereby de facto recognizing the short, but not
clearly delimited, Botswana-Zambia boundary |
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