Editing Ghana Armed Forces (section)

===External operations===
[[File:Ghanaian ECOMOG troops embarking USAF C-130E.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Ghana Army]] [[soldier]]s boarding a [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules]] at [[Kotoka International Airport]] to take part in an [[Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group]] mission in [[Liberia]].]]
The Armed Forces' first external operation was the [[United Nations Operation in the Congo]] in the early 1960s.<ref name="ONUC−Congo">{{cite web|url=http://www.gaf.mil.gh/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=28&Itemid=123|title=ONUC−Congo|access-date=2014-04-27|work=Gaf.mil.gh|publisher=Ghana Armed Forces|archive-date=2016-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124143019/http://www.gaf.mil.gh/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=28&Itemid=123|url-status=dead}}</ref> The GAF operated in the [[Balkans]], including with [[UNMIK]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Aning |first1=Kwesi |last2=Aubyn |first2=Festus K. |date=2013-02-28 |title= Providing Peacekeepers|chapter=Ghana |pages=269–290 |chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/book/36243/chapter/316033843 |language=en |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199672820.003.0013|isbn=978-0-19-967282-0 }}</ref> Ghanaian operations within [[Africa]] included the [[UNAMIR]] deployment which became entangled in the [[Rwandan genocide]]. In his book ''[[Shake Hands with the Devil (book)|Shake Hands with the Devil]]'', [[Canadian Forces]] commander [[Romeo Dallaire]] gave the Ghanaian soldiers high praise for their work during that deployment. During the [[Second Liberian Civil War|Liberian Civil War]], Ghanaian activities helped pave the way for the [[Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement]], among others.<ref name="ECOMOG−Liberia">{{cite web|url=http://www.gaf.mil.gh/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=25&Itemid=119|title=ECOMOG−Liberia|access-date=2014-04-27|work=Gaf.mil.gh|publisher=Ghana Armed Forces|archive-date=2014-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306052644/http://www.gaf.mil.gh/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=25&Itemid=119|url-status=dead}}</ref> Additional operations in Asia have included Iran and Iraq in the [[Iran–Iraq War]],<ref name="Iran–Iraq War">{{cite web |url=https://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/past/uniimogbackgr.html |title=Iran–Iraq War|access-date=2014-04-27|work=un.org}}</ref> [[Kuwait]] and [[Lebanese Civil War|Lebanon civil war]] among others.<ref name="UNIFIL−Lebanon">{{cite web |url=http://www.gaf.mil.gh/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=24&Itemid=127 |title=UNIFIL−Lebanon|access-date=2014-04-27|work=Gaf.mil.gh |publisher=Ghana Armed Forces}}</ref><ref name="Lebanese Govt to erect monument">{{cite web |url=http://www.gaf.mil.gh/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=178%3Alebanese-govt-to-erect-monument-in-honour-of-ghanaian-peacekeepers&Itemid=89 |title=Lebanese Govt to erect monument in honour of Ghanaian peacekeepers|access-date=2014-04-27| date=2 June 2011|work=Gaf.mil.gh |publisher=Ghana Armed Forces}}</ref>

A total of 3,359 Ghana Army soldiers and 283 Ghana Military Police operated as part of UNTAC in [[Cambodia]].<ref name="Cambodia−UNTAC"/> The UNTAC operation lasted two years, 1992−1993.<ref name="Cambodia−UNTAC"/> After the long running Cambodia civil war ignited by external interventions, a resolution was accepted by the four warring factional parties.<ref name="Cambodia−UNTAC"/> Operation UNTAC was the largest Ghanaian external operation since Ghana's first external military operation, [[ONUC]] in the Congo in the 1960s.<ref name="Cambodia−UNTAC"/> Operation [[UNTAC]] and its contingent UNAMIC had a combined budget of more than $1.6 billion.<ref name="Cambodia−UNTAC">{{cite web |url=http://www.gaf.mil.gh/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=30&Itemid=128 |title=UNTAC−Cambodia |access-date=2014-04-25 |work=Gaf.mil.gh |publisher=Ghana Armed Forces |archive-date=2016-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124143024/http://www.gaf.mil.gh/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=30&Itemid=128 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2012, closer military cooperation was agreed with the [[Armed Forces of the Russian Federation]]. In 2013, the Armed Forces agreed closer military cooperation with the China [[People's Liberation Army]],<ref name="China-Ghana strengthen military ties">{{cite web |work= People Daily Online |url =http://english.people.com.cn/90786/7655236.html |title = China-Ghana strengthen military ties |access-date = 23 June 2013}}</ref> and with the [[Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran]].
[[File:Ghanaian Female Soldiers .jpg|thumb|Ghanaian Female Peacekeepers going back home after serving with United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL )]]