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Portuguese Navy ships: A Pátria honrar que a Pátria vos contempla (Portuguese for: "Honor the Motherland, for the Motherland beholds you") Portuguese Army: Em perigos e guerras esforçados ("In arduous perils and wars") — from Os Lusíadas, Book I, 1st Stanza. Commandos: Audaces fortuna juvat (Latin for "Fortune favours the bold")
The Portuguese military also counted with a number of paramilitary forces, including the Special Groups (Grupos Especiais) and the Arrows (Flechas). The Portuguese Armed Forces were also involved in a brief conventional armed conflict with the Indian military, when the latter invaded the Portuguese India in December 1961.
Military staff: Part of: Portuguese Armed Forces: Headquarters: Lisbon: Motto(s) Que quem quis sempre pôde ("Who wills aye finds a way", from The Lusiads, Canto IX, 95, v. 6) Engagements: Annexation of Goa Portuguese Colonial War IFOR SFOR EUFOR KFOR Afghanistan War Peacekeaping missions Angola Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia North Macedonia ...
Military: 14,000 Civilians: 1,500: Part of: Portuguese Armed Forces: Headquarters: Lisbon: Patron: Afonso I of Portugal (civil) Saint George (religious) Motto(s) Em perigos e guerras esforçados (English: "Forceful in perils and in battle-post") Anniversaries
The badging ceremony (like other traditions of the Commandos) is inspired by old Portuguese military orders (these were forces that, in medieval Portugal, were tasked with HUMINT and surveillance in peacetime; first resistance in the defensive and first attack in the offensive; they were also the strongest forces during wartime).
Military decoration: Awarded for: Acts of valor in combat: Country: Portugal: Eligibility: Portuguese military personnel and foreign soldiers serving with Portuguese forces: Campaign(s) World War I and Portuguese Colonial War: Motto: Portuguese: REPÚBLICA PORTUGESA 1917 (Republic of Portugal 1917) Status: No longer awarded: Established
The mottos for some states lacking general international recognition, extinct states, non-sovereign nations, regions, and territories are listed, but their names are not bolded. A state motto is used to describe the intent or motivation of the state in a short phrase. For example, it can be included on a country's flag, coat of arms, or ...
In this theater, the Portuguese Navy played the most varied missions, including most of the logistical support to the Portuguese military units scattered throughout the territory, fire support to the land forces, amphibious assaults with Marine units and the interdiction of the water supply lines used by the PAIGC.