Saudi Arabia Opens Doors to Conscript Females to Army for First Time

Ministry of Defense  in the Saudi  Arabia Kingdom (SAK) announced on Friday opening the doors to females  who want to conscript to the armed forces.

This step is the  first of this kind in history of the kingdom.

Females will be permitted to four ranks in the army.

The ministry released a statement says that the females will be permitted to four ranks of soldiers only.

The applicants should to visit portal of the ministry to know terms and procedures of conscripting.

It is worth to mention that Saudi Ministry of Interior allowed females to join services such as traffic, road security, patrols, securing Haj and Oumrah.

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The Saudi army has the third budget in the world.

Also the kingdom comes first among the importing countries of arms.

Tense relations between Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are a major cause for concern regarding stability, security and peace in the Gulf region and in the Middle East more generally. These states seek to play a major role in the Middle East and use arms as a key tool in the pursuit of this aim.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have deployed their armed forces in Yemen against Iran-backed Houthi rebels and in Syria against the Islamic State. Qatar and the UAE have been involved militarily in the conflict in Libya. Iran has sent military forces to support the Iraqi and Syrian governments.

Some anti-government rebel groups in Syria have been supported by Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. In addition, all four states have provided arms to non-state armed groups in various parts of the Middle East and North Africa.

These military deployments take place amid long-standing rivalries and tensions between Saudi Arabia and the UAE, on the one hand, and Iran, on the other. Moreover, in 2017 a dispute arose in which Saudi Arabia and the UAE cut all ties with Qatar and imposed sanctions.

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To illustrate the importance given to military capability in these four states, this fact sheet provides a concise overview of trends and patterns of military expenditure and of arms imports—the main source of modern major arms for these states—in the period 1994–2018.

It sketches a pattern of rapid military build-ups in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE over the past 15 years, high levels of military spending as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) in all four countries, and growing military asymmetry in which Saudi Arabia and the UAE continue to build perse and advanced military capabilities while Iran is unable to do the same.

This raises concerns about the potential effects of these developments on the volatile security situation in the Middle East, the military intentions of these four states and the role of the countries that supply them with arms.

The fact sheet also highlights the absence of government transparency in military matters in these countries by discussing the lack of detailed official data on military expenditure.