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As of 2016, the Paraguayan Army had a total strength of 10,600 personnel, including 2,500 conscripts. [1] The Paraguayan Army is composed of Presidential Guard Regiment, organized into a regimental HQ, two battalions (infantry and military police), an armored squadron and a battery of field artillery (plus the Mounted Ceremonial Squadron "Aca ...
In land forces the Paraguayan Army is composed of a Presidential Guards Regiment, composed two battalions (infantry and military police), an armored squadron, and a battery of field artillery, plus the operationally attached Mounted Ceremonial Squadron "Aca Caraya" (which serves independently but as the mounted escort in state events, and serves as part of the 4th Cavalry Regiment).
The List of retired Paraguayan military aircraft is a list of historic military aircraft that have served with the Armed Forces of Paraguay since the acquisition of its first airplanes in the late 1910s.
The country came under a succession of military dictators, culminating in the 35-year regime of Alfredo Stroessner, which lasted until his overthrow in 1989 by an internal military coup. This marked the beginning of Paraguay's current democratic era. Paraguay is a developing country, ranking 105th in the Human Development Index. [11]
To further close the siege, Caxias ordered general Argolo Ferrão, commander of the 2nd Army Corps, to attack and take Sauce; he also ordered generals Osório (commander of the 3rd Army Corps) and Gelly y Obes to capture Curupayty, Espinillo and Angulo, the main Paraguayan fortified positions south of the fortress. At that point these positions ...
The insurgency in Paraguay, also known as the Paraguayan People's Army insurgency and the EPP rebellion (from the group's name in Spanish: Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo), is an ongoing low-level armed conflict in northeastern Paraguay. Between 2005 and the summer of 2014, the EPP campaign resulted in at least 145 deaths, the majority of them ...
Paraguayan Army [1] 7 General de ejército Jose Key Kanazawa Gamarra: 17 September 2003 28 November 2006 3 years, 72 days Paraguayan Army [1] 8 General de ejército Bernardino Soto Estigarribia (born 1952) 28 November 2006 19 November 2008 1 year, 357 days Paraguayan Army [1] [3] 9 Contraalmirante Cibar Benitez Caceres: 19 November 2008 6 ...
The Fortress of Humaitá (1854–68), known metaphorically as the Gibraltar of South America, was a Paraguayan military installation near the mouth of the River Paraguay. A strategic site without equal in the region, "a fortress the likes of which had never been seen in South America", it was "the key to Paraguay and the upper rivers".