"Hayk's Arrow" Armenian Strategic Center
A source-based profile of defence spending, procurement, forces, industry and partnerships. Open a section for short dated records, evidence and implementation status.
Historical active-duty armed-forces and qualifying paramilitary personnel, excluding reservists, from IISS The Military Balance as distributed by the World Bank. The indicator combines regular and paramilitary forces and uses estimates where exact numbers are unavailable. It does not measure readiness, mobilised strength or current force capability.
Historical estimates · latest observation 2020. No later headcount is inferred. Large year-to-year changes are retained as published, without attributing a cause.
Legal ceiling on Ministry of Defence military posts for each stated year, from annual laws or parliamentary resolutions. This is authorised establishment, not an observed serving headcount, reserve total or readiness measure. The 2005 wider whole-force total includes border guards, which are excluded here. Consolidated final limits are used for years amended during the year; they are not annual averages. Legal exceptions vary by year and remain in the original text.
Authorised limit, not actual personnel. Later laws exempt wartime/emergencies, reserve call-ups and temporary posts.
147 development records · 30 annual statistical points
NATO DEEP reports three September sessions for six National Defence Academy participants.
Sessions took place on 8, 9 and 18 September and concerned digital teaching materials. This is educational capacity-building.
Georgia’s deputy minister described a voluntary National Guard reserve and reported roughly 70% contract renewal.
The figure concerns renewals after contracts expire, not a national recruitment rate or a measure of combat readiness.
NATO’s updated country profile lists Georgia’s participation in Partner Augmentation Forces to NATO.
Date is the source update, not an accession date. The page distinguishes this mechanism from prior NATO Response Force declarations in 2015–2024.
The original budget law lists $584.94 Mn for the Ministry of Defence’s 2024 execution.
Programme 29 00: GEL 1,591.4024 million, converted from the table’s GEL-thousand unit. This is the ministry budget scope, not a harmonised estimate of total military spending. The record date is adoption of the law containing the figure.
Original-source amount: The original budget law lists 1,591.402 GEL million for the Ministry of Defence’s 2024 execution.
US$584.9 million. Original-source amount: 1,591.4 GEL million. Annual average (2024-01-01–2024-12-31): 2.720617 GEL / USD.
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The original budget law lists $711.12 Mn for the Ministry of Defence’s 2026 allocation. USD conversion uses the provisional 2026 YTD average.
Programme 29 00: GEL 1,890.0000 million, converted from the table’s GEL-thousand unit. This is the ministry budget scope, not a harmonised estimate of total military spending. The record date is adoption of the law containing the figure.
Original-source amount: The original budget law lists 1,890 GEL million for the Ministry of Defence’s 2026 allocation.
US$711.1 million. Original-source amount: 1,890.0 GEL million. Year-to-date average · provisional (2026-01-01–2026-10-31): 2.657764 GEL / USD.
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Agile Spirit 2025 concluded after joint training in Georgia and Türkiye, involving more than 2,000 personnel from nine nations according to the US National Guard.
The 7 August report explicitly dates completion to 6 August. Training covered command-post work, live fire, medical evacuation and logistics. These exercise figures do not represent Georgia’s standing armed forces.
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US Naval Forces Europe reported Georgia among the participating countries in the Sea Breeze 25-2 mine-countermeasures exercise.
The record concerns a multinational maritime-security exercise. Georgia’s coastguard belongs to the Interior Ministry; participation is not evidence of a separate Georgian navy.
A participating defence ministry reported a multinational NATO–Georgia exercise underway in Georgia, scheduled to run until 8 May.
The source is Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defence reporting its own participation on 29 April. The scheduled end is not used as proof that every planned exercise phase occurred.
Further Defence Code provisions governing recruitment and military service entered into force under the law’s transition schedule.
The date is statutory commencement, not evidence that every organisational or recruitment target was achieved that day. Adoption remains a separate 2023 record.
SIPRI’s annual military-expenditure series lists $657.87 Mn.
Published current-USD observation for the calendar year. The source series may use adopted budgets or expenditure estimates; its specific basis and coverage qualifications are stated below. This is a compiled statistical series, not a procurement-contract total. SIPRI marks this series as adopted budgets, excluding military pensions. Its 2003 figure may understate spending during that year’s political turmoil. 2025 GDP share: 1.75%. 2025 general government expenditure share: 5.84%.
Original-source amount: SIPRI’s annual military-expenditure series lists 657.879 USD million.
The source reports current USD; no second currency conversion is applied.
The original budget law lists $484.86 Mn for the Ministry of Defence’s 2023 execution.
Programme 29 00: GEL 1,274.2148 million, converted from the table’s GEL-thousand unit. This is the ministry budget scope, not a harmonised estimate of total military spending. The record date is adoption of the law containing the figure.
Original-source amount: The original budget law lists 1,274.215 GEL million for the Ministry of Defence’s 2023 execution.
US$484.9 million. Original-source amount: 1,274.2 GEL million. Annual average (2023-01-01–2023-12-31): 2.627958 GEL / USD.
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The original budget law lists $630.77 Mn for the Ministry of Defence’s 2025 allocation.
Programme 29 00: GEL 1,730.0000 million, converted from the table’s GEL-thousand unit. This is the ministry budget scope, not a harmonised estimate of total military spending. The record date is adoption of the law containing the figure.
Original-source amount: The original budget law lists 1,730 GEL million for the Ministry of Defence’s 2025 allocation.
US$630.8 million. Original-source amount: 1,730.0 GEL million. Annual average (2025-01-01–2025-12-31): 2.742642 GEL / USD.
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The State Department announced suspension of the US–Georgia Strategic Partnership mechanism.
The statement concerns the strategic-partnership mechanism. It must not be expanded into a claim that every military contact or programme ended; the July Noble Partner postponement remains separately dated.
The parliamentary Defence and Security Committee backed a proposed $77.18 Mn increase in the 2024 defence ministry allocation.
This record is the committee’s endorsement of the amendment proposal. It is not substituted for the original budget law or final annual expenditure.
Original-source amount: The parliamentary Defence and Security Committee backed a proposed 210 GEL million increase in the 2024 defence ministry allocation.
US$77.2 million. Original-source amount: 210.0 GEL million. Annual average (2024-01-01–2024-12-31): 2.720617 GEL / USD.
The EU High Representative confirmed that European Peace Facility support for Georgia was on hold.
The date is the parliamentary speech confirming the hold, not necessarily its first decision date. It does not establish cancellation of all earlier approved assistance measures or delivery of the withheld package.
At the SNGP anniversary event, NATO reported progress in defence procurement reform, institutional education and the joint training centre.
The 17 September report identifies completion of the acquisition initiative in December 2023 and NATO accreditation of the Defence Institution Building School. These are institutional milestones, not weapon-delivery totals.
The United States indefinitely postponed the Noble Partner exercise planned in Georgia for 25 July–6 August 2024.
The announcement concerns this exercise iteration during a bilateral review. It explicitly retained other partnership intentions and does not establish the termination of all military cooperation.
The State Audit Office reported 8,800 departures and 5,384 entries in 2019–2022, alongside weaknesses in military education and conscription administration.
Publication date, not an event in 2024 alone. The same finding reports net inflow of 599 for the first 11 months of 2023 and 6,255 MoD conscripts in 2019–2022, 57% of the authorised intake plan. These are flows and plan completion, not annual force headcounts.
SIPRI’s annual military-expenditure series lists $538.08 Mn.
Published current-USD observation for the calendar year. The source series may use adopted budgets or expenditure estimates; its specific basis and coverage qualifications are stated below. This is a compiled statistical series, not a procurement-contract total. SIPRI marks this series as adopted budgets, excluding military pensions. Its 2003 figure may understate spending during that year’s political turmoil. 2024 GDP share: 1.59%. 2024 general government expenditure share: 5.27%.
Original-source amount: SIPRI’s annual military-expenditure series lists 538.085 USD million.
The source reports current USD; no second currency conversion is applied.
Georgia’s defence ministry reported a handover of domestically produced unmanned aircraft and US ground-surveillance radars at Vaziani.
The official account also shows WARMATE and FLYEYE demonstrations. Quantities and a radar model are not established here. A handover and demonstration do not establish full operational readiness or wholly domestic component manufacture.
Dated developments extend from 1991 to 2026. National ministry-budget observations cover 2004–2026; the separate SIPRI series covers 1996–2025. Additional charts retain historical personnel estimates, legal post ceilings and spending shares. Government transfer returns describe annual reports, not unique shipments or current inventories; conflicting quantities and timing remain in the source details. Procurement approvals, plans, reported production and deliveries remain distinct. This is a selected reference, not a complete inventory or readiness assessment.
This is a curated public-source reference, not a complete inventory. Each record identifies an event or publication date, implementation stage and evidence type; the detail explains which date is known. An official report establishes what the issuer said; a contract does not establish delivery, and delivery does not establish readiness. Unknown quantities remain unknown. Records count publications or developments, not weapons, personnel or military strength.