Forces armées, effectifs, équipements, déploiements : le dossier militaire complet sur Cambodge.
| Militaires d’active (est.) | 200 000 |
|---|---|
| Rang mondial par effectifs | #29 / 162 |
MCB · 50/100 — La note Magna est notre composite 0–100 de la puissance nationale structurelle — cinq dimensions, plus de 100 indicateurs. C'est l'évaluation propre du Bureau, pas un miroir des chiffres de la Banque mondiale ou de la CIA.
Momentum 0 — Momentum trimestriel : la lecture du Bureau sur la trajectoire du pays au dernier trimestre, de −10 (dégradation rapide) à +10 (accélération).
Peu de mouvement en juillet-septembre 2026 : ni crise, ni aubaine. Le trimestre a simplement confirmé le cap du pays.
Des forces plus profondes — les flux commerciaux, la stabilité régionale, la solidité institutionnelle — décideront de la trajectoire ; trois mois le font rarement.
Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF): Royal Cambodian Army, Royal Khmer Navy, Royal Cambodian Air Force, Royal Gendarmerie (Military Police); National Committee for Maritime Security (2025)
information varies; estimated 200,000 Armed Forces, including Gendarmerie (2025)
the RCAF is armed largely with older Chinese and Russian/Soviet origin armaments; in recent years it has received limited amounts of more modern equipment from several suppliers, particularly China (2025)
18 is the legal minimum age for military service for men and women (2025)
340 Central African Republic (MINUSCA); 180 Lebanon (UNIFIL) (2025)
the primary responsibilities of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) are border, coastal, and internal security; key security partners include China and Vietnam; in July 2025, following months of rising tensions, the RCAF and the military forces of Thailand clashed in multiple locations along their disputed border; both sides blamed the other for provoking the five-day conflict, which included cross-border artillery shelling by both sides and air attacks by RTARF fighter aircraft and drones the RCAF was re-established in 1993 under the first coalition government from the merger of the Cambodian Government’s military forces (Cambodian People’s Armed Forces) and the two non-communist resistance forces (Sihanoukist National Army, aka National Army for Khmer Independence, and the Khmer People's National Liberation Armed Forces); thousands of communist Khmer Rouge fighters began surrendering by 1994 under a government amnesty program and the last of the Khmer Rouge forces (National Army of Democratic Kampuchea) were demobilized or absorbed into the RCAF in 1999 (2025)
