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- <text id=93CT1103>
- <title>
- Panama--Defense Forces
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Panama
- Defense Forces</hdr><body>
- <p>Branches: the Panamanian Defense Forces (PDF) ceased to exist
- as a military institution shortly after the United States
- invaded Panama on 20 December 1989; President ENDARA has
- restructured the forces, under the new name of Panamanian Public
- Forces (PPF) and worked to assert civilian control over them;
- the PPF is divided into the National Police, Maritime Service,
- and National Air Service; the Judicial Technical Police serve
- under the Attorney General; the Council of Public Security and
- National Defense under Menalco SOLIS in the Office of the
- President is analogous to the US National Security Council; the
- Institutional Protection Service under Carlos BARES is attached
- to the presidency
- </p>
- <p>Manpower availability: males age 15-49 671,059; fit for
- military service 461,471 (1993 est.); no conscription
- </p>
- <p>Defense expenditures: expenditures for the Panamanian Public
- Forces for internal security amounted to $104.7 million, 1.7% of
- GDP (1993 est.)
- </p></body></article></text>
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