Tunisian Armed Forces
| Tunisian Armed Forces | |
|---|---|
| القوات المسلحة التونسية | |
| Founded | 30 June 1956 |
| Service branches | Army Air Force Navy |
| Headquarters | Tunis |
| Leadership | |
| Commander-in-Chief | Kais Saied |
| Minister of National Defense | Imed Memmich |
| Inspector General of the Armed Forces | General Abdel Moneim Belati |
| Personnel | |
| Conscription | 12 months |
| Active personnel | 89,800 |
| Deployed personnel | 96 |
| Expenditure | |
| Budget | $1.35 billion (2023) |
| Percent of GDP | 2.45% (2023) |
| Industry | |
| Foreign suppliers | Austria Belgium Brazil China Czech Republic France Germany Italy Russia Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom United States |
| Related articles | |
| History | Bizerte Crisis Yom Kippur War 1980 Gafsa Uprising UNAMIR Battle of Wazzin ISIL insurgency in Tunisia |
| Ranks | Military ranks of Tunisia |
The Tunisian Armed Forces (Arabic: القوات المسلحة التونسية) consist of the Tunisian Army, Air Force and Navy.
As of 2019, Tunisia had armed forces with more than 150,000 active-duty personnel, of which 80,000 were conscripts. Paramilitary forces consisted of a 12,000-member national guard. Tunisia participates in United Nations peacekeeping efforts in the DROC (MONUSCO) and Côte d'Ivoire. Previous United Nations peacekeeping deployments for the Tunisian armed forces have included Cambodia (UNTAC), Namibia (UNTAG), Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia/Eritrea (UNMEE), and the 1960s mission in the Congo, ONUC.