Georgian Defense Forces
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combined military forces of Georgia
Key facts
- Founded
- September 1918
- Current form
- December 2018
- Service branches
- Land Forces , Air Force , National Guard
- Headquarters
- Tbilisi , Georgia
- Website
- mod .gov .ge
- Commander in chief
- President Mikheil Kavelashvili
- Prime minister
- Irakli Kobakhidze
- Minister of defence
- Irakli Chikovani
- Chief of defence forces
- Lt. Gen. Giorgi Matiashvili
- Military age
- 18–65 years old
- Conscription
- 18 years of age, 12 months
- Active personnel
- 37,000
- Reserve personnel
- 27,000 (Active as of 2023), 23,000 (Specialist as of 2023), 155,500 (territorial reserve as of 2024)
- Deployed personnel
- Currently nowhere
- Budget
- ₾1.89 billion GEL US$702.8 million (2026)
- Percent of gdp
- 1.66% (2026)
- Domestic suppliers
- Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing , TAM Management , Scientific Technical Center Delta , Tbilisi Tank Factory , Delta CAA Tactical , Delta WB
- Foreign suppliers
- Austria , Bulgaria , Czech Republic , France , Germany , Israel , Italy , Japan , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Slovakia , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Turkey , United States , Ukraine Former :, Russia, Belarus
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- armed forces
- Has part
- Georgian Navy
- Country
- Georgia (country)
- Headquarters
- Tbilisi
- Official website
- mod.gov.ge
- Image
- PairOfDidgoriAPCs.JPG
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- Commons category
- Military of Georgia
- topic's main category
- Category:Military of Georgia (country)
- inception
- 1990-12-20
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Encyclopedic overview
The Defence Forces of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს თავდაცვის ძალები, romanized: sakartvelos tavdatsvis dzalebi), or Georgian Defence Forces (GDF), are the combined military forces of Georgia, tasked with the defence of the nation's independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. They consist of the Land Force, Air Force, National Guard, and Special Operations Forces. The Defence Forces are under overall leadership of the Minister of Defence of Georgia and directly headed by the Chief of Defence Forces.
The first regular military was established in the first Georgian Republic in 1918 and was in existence until after the republic's overthrow by the invading Soviet Russian forces in 1921. The modern Georgian military were founded in accordance with the government decree of 24 April 1991. 30 April, the day when the first conscripts were called up for military service in 1991, has been celebrated as the day of the Georgian military forces.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Georgian Defense Forces” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.