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Spanish Armed Forces;
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Service branches	Spanish Army; Spanish Navy; Spanish Air Force
Leadership
Commander-in-Chief	Juan Carlos I, King of Spain
Minister of Defense	Carme Chacón
Manpower
Military age	18
Active personnel	177,853
Reserve personnel	328,500
Expenditures
Budget	17,7 billion (Ranked 17th)
Percent of GDP	1,2%
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History	; Reconquista; Granada War; Spanish Conquest of Mexico; Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire; Arauco War; Italian Wars; Ottoman-Habsburg Wars; Revolt of the Comuneros; Anglo-Spanish War (1585); Eighty Years' War; Thirty Years' War; War of the Spanish Succession; War of the Quadruple Alliance; War of Jenkins' Ear; American Revolutionary War; Peninsular War; Latin American Wars of Independence; Spanish Civil War, 1820-1823; Second Carlist War; Spanish-Moroccan War (1859); Ten Years' War; Third Carlist War; Spanish-American War; Spanish Civil War; Ifni War; 2001 Invasion of Afghanistan; Iraq War

The armed forces of Spain are known as the Spanish Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Españolas). Their Commander-in-Chief is the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, and consists of the Army, Navy and Air Force. It also includes, Navy Marines, the Royal Guard, the Spanish Legion, an Army Airmobile Force and a Civil Guard.

The Spanish Armed Forces are a modern military force charged with defending the Kingdom's integrity and sovereignty. The Armed Forces are also active members of NATO, the Eurocorps, and the European Union Battlegroups.

Current Chief of Defense of the Spanish Armed Forces is General José Julio Rodríguez Fernández.

Spanish Army: 92.000
Spanish Navy: 26.980
Spanish Air Force: 24.800

[edit] History

Main article: Military history of Spain

Further information: Regulares

Spanish soldiers in Afghanistan

The military history of Spain includes the history of battles fought in the territory of modern Spain, as well as her former and current overseas possessions and territories, and the military history of the Spanish people regardless of geography.

[edit] External links and Further Reading

Jane's Defence Weekly, Country Survey: Spain, JDW 18 April 1992, p.655-onwards
(Spanish) Foro Militar General - Spanish Military forum