Hellenic Armed Forces
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combined military forces of Greece
Key facts
- Service branches
- Hellenic Army Hellenic Navy Hellenic Air Force
- Headquarters
- Athens , Greece
- President
- Konstantinos Tasoulas
- Prime minister
- Kyriakos Mitsotakis
- Minister of national defense
- Nikos Dendias
- Chief of the general staff
- General Dimitrios Houpis [ el ]
- Conscription
- Yes
- Active personnel
- 142,700
- Reserve personnel
- 221,350
- Budget
- € 6.13 billion (2025)
- Percent of gdp
- 3.08% (2024)
- History
- Military history of Greece
- Ranks
- Greek military ranks
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- armed forces
- Country
- Greece
- Headquarters
- Athens
- Subsidiary
- Hellenic Navy
- Official website
- www.mod.mil.gr
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- Commons category
- Military of Greece
- topic's main category
- Category:Military of Greece
- allegiance
- Ministry of National Defence (Greece)
- inception
- 1828-00-00
- commanded by
- President of the Republic
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Encyclopedic overview
The Hellenic Armed Forces (Greek: Eλληνικές Ένοπλες Δυνάμεις, romanized: Ellinikés Énoples Dynámeis) are the military forces of Greece. The Hellenic Armed Forces consists of the Hellenic Army, the Hellenic Navy, Hellenic Air Force and, in wartime, the Hellenic Coast Guard.
The civilian authority overseeing the Hellenic Armed Forces is the Ministry of National Defense.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hellenic Armed Forces” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.