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The Military Forces of Colombia (Spanish: Fuerzas Militares de Colombia) are the unified armed forces of the Republic of Colombia. They consist of the Colombian Army , the Colombian Navy and the Colombian Aerospace Force .
The National Army of Colombia (Spanish: Ejército Nacional de Colombia) is the land warfare service branch of the Military Forces of Colombia.With over 361,420 active personnel as of 2020, it is the largest and oldest service branch in Colombia, and is the second largest army in the Americas after the United States and before Brazil.
Military history of Cartagena, Colombia (1 C, 7 P) Colombian conflict (5 C, 41 P) Military coups in Colombia (3 P) K. Military units and formations of Colombia in the ...
Colombian soldier Jhon Jairo Delgado Bastidas was killed by guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) in the municipality of Valdivia, in the department of Antioquia. [29] The railway line of Colombia's largest coal mine, Cerrejón, was attacked with explosives that caused the suspension of trains without affecting production or exports.
Ecuadorian–Colombian War (1862–1863) Colombia: Ecuador: Victory: Colombian Civil War of 1876 (1876–1877) Colombia. Colombian Liberal Party; Colombian Conservative Party: Victory: Colombian Civil War (1884–1885) (1884-1885) Colombia: Radical liberals: Victory. New constitution in 1886, Colombia becomes a unitary republic; Panama Crisis ...
The army's air force component consisted of one service squadron and one training squadron of fifteen aircraft. The police numbered 5,053 officers, and by 1944 the number had increased to 5,500. Colombia nominally had a compulsory military service but it was never fully enforced. Active service lasted for a period of one year. [5]
In the early 1960s, Colombian Army units loyal to the National Front began to attack peasant communities. This happened throughout Colombia with the Colombian army considering that these peasant communities were enclaves for bandits and Communists. It was the 1964 attack on the community of Marquetalia that motivated the later creation of FARC ...
The Colombian Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Colombian Army that served under United Nations Command during the Korean War from 1951 to 1954. The first Colombian military unit to serve in Asia, the battalion was attached to the U.S. 7th Infantry Division and 25th Infantry Divisions .