Military of Uzbekistan

Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi Qurolli Kuchlari
Standard of the Armed Forces
Service branches	Uzbek Ground Forces Uzbek Air and Air Defence Forces Uzbek Naval Forces Uzbek Frontier Service Uzbek National Guard
Headquarters	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Leadership
President of Uzbekistan	Shavkat Mirziyoev
Minister of Defense	Kabul Berdiev
Manpower
Conscription	18 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 12 months
Available for military service	6,340,220 males, age 18-49 (2005 est.), 6,432,072 females, age 18-49 (2005 est.)
Fit for military service	4,609,621 males, age 18-49 (2005 est.), 5,383,233 females, age 18-49 (2005 est.)
Reaching military age annually	324,722 males (2005 est.), 317,062 females (2005 est.)
Active personnel	65,000
Expenditures
Percent of GDP	2% (2005 est.) Another reported figure is 3.7%
Industry
Foreign suppliers	Russia  Kazakhstan  Greece  Iran  Turkey  United States  Israel  Armenia  Belarus  China  Bulgaria  Romania  Venezuela  Serbia  Pakistan  India  France  North Korea  South Korea  Ukraine  Czech Republic

The Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Uzbek: 'Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi Qurolli Kuchlari'), is the name of the unified armed forces of Uzbekistan, consisting of a Ground force, Air and Air Defense forces, National guard and a Frontier service. They are reported to be the largest, and the strongest in Central Asia. According to the 1992 Law on Defense, Uzbekistan's military is for defensive purposes only.

Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, used to be the headquarters of the Soviet Turkestan Military District and on 20 February 1992, the new Ministry of Defence Affairs took over the offices which had been formerly occupied by the district headquarters staff. On 2 July 1992 a Presidential Decree established a Ministry of Defence to supersede the Ministry of Defence Affairs. Over the succeeding years, Uzbekistan replaced Russian officers with ethnic Uzbeks and restructured the military to focus on targets like civil unrest, drug trafficking, and Hizb-ut-Tahrir.

Uzbekistan and Russia signed a mutual defence pact in 2005, that will also result in closer military cooperation. This marked a stark contrast to a few years earlier, when the US appeared to be Uzbekistan's favoured foreign friend, and relations with Russia were cooler.

'The country [has] also began professionalizing its military, an effort that has only limited success and erratic government support. But even in Uzbekistan, these changes represent merely a modest beginning and most of the benefits are concentrated in a few elite, higher readiness formations rather than uniformly applied to the entire force. The Uzbek military is woefully inadequate, but it is far superior to its neighbours.' Uzbekistani military, by far, is alongside Kazakhstan, are both wealthy and quickly developed arms.

The government maintains a command and staff college for the military in Tashkent, based on the former Soviet TVOKU higher command college.