No conscription: not married and not bonded (2013)[1]
Active personnel
15,500[2]
Expenditures
Budget
$360 million (2019)[2]
Percent of GDP
0.4% (2019)[2]
Industry
Foreign suppliers
DIHOC:[3]GHA
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History
Gold Coast Regiment
Military governments
National Liberation Council (1966–1969)
National Redemption Council (1972–1975)
Supreme Military Council (1975–1979)
Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (1979)
Provisional National Defence Council (1981–1993)
Operations abroad
United Nations Operation in the Congo (1960–1964)
Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)
Rwandan Civil War (1990–1994)
Rwandan genocide (1994)
Western Sahara War (1975–1991)
Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002)
First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996)
Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003)
Second Congo War (1998–2003)
Chadian Civil War (2005–2010)
Sudan–South Sudan Border War (2012)
First Ivorian Civil War (2002–2007)
Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998–2000)
Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)
Nepalese Civil War (1996–2006)
Georgian–Abkhazian conflict (1989–present)
Ranks
Military ranks of Ghana
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) is the unified armed force of Ghana, consisting of the Army (GA), Navy (GN), and Ghana Air Force.[4]
The Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces is the president of Ghana, who is also the supreme military commander of the Border Guard Unit (BGU). The armed forces are managed by the Minister of Defence[5] and the Chief of Defence Staff.
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^ abcCIA World Factbook, accessed 29 October 2020
^"Ghana's DIHC to manufacture equipment". Upi.com. United Press International. 2012-11-19. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
^Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook: Ghana, accessed 15 November 2011
^International Institute for Strategic Studies; Hackett, James (ed.) (3 February 2010). The Military Balance 2010. London: Routledge. pp. 309–311. ISBN 978-1857435573. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
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