Royal Moroccan Armed Forces

Moroccan Royal Armed Forces
القوات المسلحة الملكية
Service branches	Royal Moroccan Air Forces Royal Army Royal Navy Royal Gendarmerie Auxiliary Forces Royal Guard
Leadership
Supreme Commander and Chief-of-Staff	King Mohammed VI
Personnel
Available for military service	8,393,772 (2002 est.), age 15–49
Fit for military service	5,289,283 (2002 est.), age 15–49
Reaching military age annually	348,380 (2002 est.)
Active personnel	196,300 (2006 est.) (ranked 26th)
Reserve personnel	150,000
Expenditure
Budget	2,306,000,000
Percent of GDP	4%
Industry
Foreign suppliers	France Spain United States

The Royal Moroccan Armed Forces is the summation of the armed forces of the kingdom of Morocco. It was founded in 1956 (exept the Royal Navy founded in 1960) after Morocco's independence from France and Spain. It is structures into five different branches :

• Royal Army
• Royal Navy
• Royal Gendarmerie
• Auxiliary Forces (Independent from the Armed Forces)
• Royal Guard

The Royal Moroccan Army fought on the Golan front in 1973, intervened decisively in 1977 Shaba conflict, and saved Zaire's regime. But the Morrocan Armed Forces were mostly illustrious in fighting a 25 years war against the POLISARIO, an algerian backed rebel movement seeking the seperation of Western Sahara from the kingdom. Moroccan Armed forces also took a symbolic part in the Gulf war among other arab armies, and also intervened in Somalia in 1993.

In the 14th of July 1999, Royal Armed Forces were on parade at the Champs-Élysées, which was exceptional for a non-French army at the time.

It is today taking part in several peace keeping missions: MONUC, ONUCI, EUFOR, KFOR, MINUSTA, ...