Military branches : Argentine Army, Navy of the Argentine Republic (includes naval aviation and Marines), Coast Guard, Argentine Air Force, National Gendarmerie, National Aeronautical Police Force.
Military manpower - military age : 20 years of age (2003 est.)
Military manpower - availability : males age 15-49: 9,780,063 (2003 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service : males age 15-49: 7,942,837 (2003 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually : males: 331,011 (2003 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure : $4.3 billion (FY99)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP : 1.3% (FY00)

TRANSNATIONAL ISSUES
Disputes - international : claims UK-administered Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in its constitution, but in 1995 ceded the right to settle the dispute by force; Beagle Channel islands dispute resolved through Papal mediation in 1984, but armed incidents persist since 1992 oil discovery; territorial claim in Antarctica partially overlaps UK and Chilean claims (see Antarctic disputes); unruly region at convergence of Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay borders is locus of money laundering, smuggling, arms and drug trafficking, and harbors Islamist militants; uncontested dispute between Brazil and Uruguay over Braziliera Island in the Quarai/Cuareim leaves the tripoint with Argentina in question.
Illicit drugs : used as a transshipment country for cocaine headed for Europe and the US ; some money-laundering activity, especially in the Tri-Border Area; domestic consumption of drugs in urban centers is increasing.