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The Arab League as an Organization has no military Force, like the UN or EU, but recently in the 2007 summit, the Leaders decided to reactivate their joint defense and establilsh a peacekeeping force to deploy in South Lebanon, Darfur, Iraq, and other hot spots.

Combined together the Arab League makes one of the powers in the World today with 130 million manpower availability, putting it third after India and before the US's 67 Million Manpower.

There have been in History several wars that the Arab states participated in together, especially the 1948 war, which was against Israel, the Armies of Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia all were engaged in the war, which led to the Arab defeat and Israel's conquest into Palestine further more.

Today Egypt is considered the Strongest Military Body in Africa, and is ranked 11th internationally. Saudi Arabia has recently started to enlarge its Military department, with other Gulf states following, Morocco is maintaining a strong army in north Africa, along with Algeria and Libya. Syria, Jordan and Iraq's Armies have all grew relatively slower to other rich states. recently the US has promised to grant the Arab States around $60 billion worth of Military equipments to Egypt ($ 30 Billion) and the Gulf States, to prepare them if Iran decided to strike American interests in the oil rich region... Israel on the Other hand has requested an equally priced Military aid from the US, to protect itself from Arabs sudden increase in Military... and was granted 30 billion dollars.

N	Country	Military Service Age	Military Manpower Availability	Military Manpower Fit
_	Arab League	18	129,183,640	119,039,543
1	Algeria	19	15,959,400	13,301,364
2	Bahrain	18	353,860	286,860
3	Comoros	18	139,491	205,207
4	Djibouti	18	183,123	88,201
5	Egypt	18	17,772,105	30,479612
6	Iraq	18	11,512,731	9,701,179
7	Jordan	17	2,920,637	2,506,087
8	Kuwait	18	1,331,865	1,142,499
9	Lebanon	18	1,998,636	1,687,532
10	Libya	18	2,934,827	2,522,448
11	Mauritania	18	1,214,418	754,782
12	Morocco	18	15,791,743	13,160,516
13	Oman	18	1,228,492	1,016,551
14	Palestinian Authority	NA	NA	NA
15	Libya	18	440,729	355,161
16	Saudi Arabia	18	13,066,921	11,252,056
17	Somalia	18	3,502,519	2,061,057
18	Sudan	18	16,427,378	11,077,040
19	Syria	18	8,479,752	6,875,446
20	Tunisia	18	4,848,103	4,036,188
21	United Arab Emirates	18	1,150,575	946,646
22	Yemen	18	7,926,335	5,583,111

[edit] List of Arab League Military Expenditure

N	Country	Arab Military Expenditure
_	Arab League	53,399,070,000
1	Algeria	2,994,000,000
2	Bahrain	627,700,000
3	Comoros	12,870,000
4	Djibouti	29,050,000
5	Egypt	3,300,000,000
6	Iraq	1,008,000,000
7	Jordan	1,392,000,000
8	Kuwait	3,007,000,000
9	Lebanon	540,600,000
10	Libya	1,300,000,000
11	Mauritania	19,320,000
12	Morocco	2,306,000,000
13	Oman	252,990,000
14	Palestinian Authority	NA
15	Qatar	694,000,000
16	Saudi Arabia	31,500,000,000
17	Somalia	22,340,000
18	Sudan	587,000,000
19	Syria	858,000,000
20	Tunisia	356,000,000
21	United Arab Emirates	1,600,000,000
22	Yemen	992,200,000