Ministry of Defense of MontenegroGovernment

The Armed Forces of Montenegro (Montenegrin: Vojska Crne Gore / Војска Црне Горе) are the military forces of Montenegro. The Armed Forces consists of an army, navy and air force. The military currently maintains a force of 2,350 active duty members. Although the military forces are established in 1879, the current form of Armed Forces of Montenegro can trace its origins to 1969 when Socialist Montenegro formed its own Territorial Defense Forces within the second Yugoslavia. The bulk of its equipment and forces were inherited from the Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro, which was formed from the collapsed Yugoslav People's Army in 1992; as Montenegro contained the entire coastline of the former union, it retained the entire naval force. On 5 June 2017, Montenegro joined NATO as the 29th member.