ement functions and paramilitary duties; small police posts
are on all islands)

Korea, North
Korean People's Army (includes Army, Navy, Air Force),
Civil Security Forces

Korea, South
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, National Maritime
Police (Coast Guard)

Kuwait
Land Forces, Navy, Air Force (including Air Defense Force),
National Guard

Kyrgyzstan
Army, Air and Air Defense, Security Forces, Border Troops

Laos
Lao People's Army (LPA; including Riverine Force), Air Force

Latvia
Ground Forces, Navy, Air Force, Border Guard, Home Guard
(Zemessardze)

Lebanon
Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF; includes Army, Navy, and Air
Force)

Lesotho
Lesotho Defense Force (LDF; with Army and Air Wing)

Liberia
Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL): Army, Navy, Air Force

Libya
Armed Peoples on Duty (Army), Navy, Air Force, Air Defense
Command

Lithuania
National Defense Volunteer Forces (SKAT), Ground Forces,
Navy, Air Force

Luxembourg
Army

Macau
responsibility for defense reverted to China on 20 December
1999; there are local police forces

Macedonia
Army of the Republic of Macedonia (ARM; including Air and
Air Defense Command)

Madagascar
People's Armed Forces: comprising Intervention Force,
Development Force, and Aeronaval - Navy and Air - Force; National
Gendarmerie

Malawi
Army (including Air Wing and Naval Detachment), Police
(including Mobile Force Unit)

Malaysia
Malaysian Army, Royal Malaysian Navy, Royal Malaysian Air
Force, Royal Malaysian Marine Police, Sarawak Border Scouts

Maldives
National Security Service: comprising Security Branch
(ground forces), Air Element; Coast Guard

Mali
Army, Air Force, National Guard

Malta
Armed Forces: Land Forces (including Air Squadron and Maritime
Squadron), Revenue Security Corps

Marshall Islands
no regular military forces; Marshall Islands Police

Martinique
no regular military forces; Gendarmerie

Mauritania
Army, Navy (including Naval Infantry), Air Force,
National Gendarmerie, National Guard, National Police, Presidential
Guard (BSSP)

Mauritius
National Police Force (includes the paramilitary Special
Mobile Force or SMF and National Coast Guard)

Mexico
National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) (including Army and Air
Force), Navy Secretariat (including Naval Air and Marines)

Moldova
National Army: Ground Forces, Air Force

Mongolia
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