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MilitaryMilitary branches
No regular military forces; Samoa Police Force (2008) Manpower available for military service
Males age 16-49 47,906 (2010 est.)
Manpower fit for military service
Males age 16-49 38,260
Females age 16-49 38,032 (2010 est.) Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually
Male 2,221
Female 2,062 (2010 est.) Military expenditures
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Military - note
Samoa has no formal defense structure or regular armed forces; informal defense ties exist with NZ, which is required to consider any Samoan request for assistance under the 1962 Treaty of Friendship
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New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first Polynesian nation to reestablish independence in the 20th century. The country dropped the "Western" from its name in 1997.
