11 African Countries with the Highest Military Strength

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10. Uganda

Total expenditure- $280,000,000
Total number of soldiers- 8,513,969
Ranking based on military expenditure- 10
Ranking based on the number of soldiers-8
Composite score: 9.2

The Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) is the renamed version of the former National Resistance Army. They rose to supremacy following the extraordinary feats to push away Lord’s Resistance Army, a children’s army, out of the geographical limits of the country. Depending a lot on the foreign resources, Uganda’s leading contributors are mostly Russia, China and Poland.

African Countries with the Highest Military Strength - Uganda

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