word | | Military service age and obligation |
| age | Latvia | 18 years of age for voluntary male and female military service; conscription abolished January 2007; under current law, every citizen is entitled to serve in the armed forces for life (2009) |
| age | Lebanon | 18-30 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2007) |
| age | Lesotho | 18-24 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription; women serve as commissioned officers (2009) |
| age | Liberia | 18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2010) |
| age | Libya | 17 years of age (2004) |
| age | Lithuania | 18 years of age for volunteers; 12-month conscript service obligation suspended in 2008, all enlisted conscripts ending service by July 2009 (2011) |
| age | Luxembourg | 17-25 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; soldiers under 18 are not deployed into combat or with peacekeeping missions; no conscription; Luxembourg citizen or EU citizen with 3 ... |
| age | Macedonia | 18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2010) |
| age | Madagascar | 18-25 years of age for male-only voluntary military service; no conscription; service obligation - 18 months (either military or equivalent civil service); 20-30 years of age for National Gendarmerie recruits (35 years ... |
| age | Malawi | 18 years of age for voluntary military service; standard obligation is 2 years of active duty and 5 years reserve service (2007) |
| age | Malaysia | 18 years of age for voluntary military service (2005) |
| age | Maldives | 18-28 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2010) |
| age | Mali | 18 years of age for selective compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 2 years (2011) |
| age | Malta | 17 years 6 months of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2010) |
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