Military branches:
Lesotho Defense Force (LDF): Army (includes Air Wing) (2012)
Military service age and obligation:
18-24 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription; women serve as commissioned officers (2012)
Military - note:
Lesotho's declared policy for its military is the maintenance of the country's sovereignty and the preservation of internal security; in practice, external security is guaranteed by South Africa
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Lesotho on this page is re-published from the 2018 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Lesotho Military 2018 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Lesotho Military 2018 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
a) The assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order
