Population: 10 002 thousand people. The military budget is 805 million dollars (2001). The regular forces are 33 800 people. The reserve - 90 300 people, including land forces - 74 900, air force - 15 400. Militarized formations - 14 000 people, including frontier troops - 12 000. Recruitment for the army - draft. Hitch - 9 months. Mobilization resources - 2,6 million people, including 2 million able-bodied men.

Land forces: 13 160 people, 5 brigades (3 mechanized, 1 mixed artillery and 1 engineers). Besides there is a detached SAM regiment, 5 training centres, a river boat brigade, 2 reconnaissance and field engineer battalions, 1 military police regiment. 4 mechanized brigades are in reserve.

Arms: 753 tanks (515 T-55, of them 108 mothballed, and 238 T-72), 490 infantry fighting vehicles BMP-1, 973 armored troop carriers, 116 armoured reconnaissance vehicles, 314 vehicle of the type of armored troop carriers, 532 pieces of towed ordnance, 151 self-propelled guns Gvozdika, 56 122 mm missile systems BM-21, 369 antitank missile systems, 268 antitank guns with calibre of 85 mm and 100 mm (of them 162 D-44 are mothballed), 186 57 mm anti-aircraft guns C-60 (of them 46 are mothballed), 50 river boats, 288 portable surface-to-air missile systems (243 Strela, 45 Mistral).

Air force: 7 500 people, 46 war-planes, 51 combat helicopters. Tactical units: 2 fighting and bomber air regiments, 1 helicopter regiment, 2 antiaircraft missile regiments. Planes and helicopters: 22 MiG-21 of modifications BIS, MO and UM, 27 MiG-29, 19 L-39, 12 Yak-52, 9 An-26, 51 Mi-24, 16 Mi-2, 20 Mi-8 and Mi-17.