Burkina Faso Armed Forces
| Burkina Faso Armed Forces | |
|---|---|
| Forces armées du Burkina Faso | |
Coat of arms of Burkina Faso | |
| Current form | 1985 |
| Service branches | Burkina Faso Ground Force Air Force of Burkina Faso Roket forces Air defence Force National Gendarmerie People's Militia |
| Headquarters | Ouagadougou |
| Website | defense |
| Leadership | |
| Commander-in-chief | Captain Ibrahim Traoré |
| Minister of Defense and Veteran Affairs | Colonel Kassoum Coulibaly |
| Chief of General Staff | Colonel-Major Célestin Simporé |
| Personnel | |
| Active personnel | 12,000 personnel (7,000 Army; 500 Air Force; 4,500 National Gendarmerie) (2022) |
| Expenditure | |
| Budget | $15 billion (2025) |
| Percent of GDP | 2.2% (2019) 2.9% (2022) |
| Related articles | |
| History | Agacher Strip War Sierra Leone Civil War Insurgency in the Maghreb 2014 Burkina Faso uprising January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état Islamist insurgency in Burkina Faso |
| Ranks | Military ranks of Burkina Faso |
The Burkina Faso Armed Forces (French: Forces armées du Burkina Faso) are the military of Burkina Faso. The service branches of the armed forces include its Army, Air Force, National Gendarmerie and People's Militia. Being a landlocked country, Burkina Faso has no navy.