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| Subject: How many countries do not have standing armies? Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:06 am | |
| 24. Almost all countries without regular military forces, such as Liechtenstein, Iceland, and Samoa, are landlocked or island countries with small populations. But also on the list are Costa Rica, whose constitution prohibited the armed forces in 1949 in the wake of its civil war; Haiti, whose then president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, demobilized the army in 1995; and Panama, which abolished the military in 1990.
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