Antigua and Barbuda maintain two primary defense/security forces, neither of which can be considered Special Operations-capable..

	Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defense Force
	Royal Antigua and Barbuda Police Force (includes the Coast Guard).

Special Note:  Antigua and Barbuda is strategically situated in the Leeward Islands near maritime transport lanes of major importance to the United States. Antigua has long hosted a U.S. military presence. The former U.S. Navy support facility, turned over to the Government of Antigua and Barbuda in 1995, is now being developed as a regional Coast Guard training facility. The U.S. Air Force continues to maintain a space tracking facility on Antigua. The U.S. embassy in Antigua closed on June 30, 1994. Antigua and Barbuda's location close to the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico makes it an attractive transshipment point for narcotics traffickers. International concerns have also been raised by the vulnerability of the off-shore financial sector to money laundering. To address these problems, the U.S. and Antigua and Barbuda have signed a series of counter-narcotic and counter-crime treaties and agreements including a maritime law enforcement agreement (1995), subsequently amended to include overflight and order-to-land provisions (1996), a bilateral extradition treaty (1996), and a mutual legal assistance treaty (1996).