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In case of war the Bulgarian People's Army's Land Forces Command would have formed the 1st Balkan Front with multiple Bulgarian armies [1] and wartime reinforcements. Two Bulgarian armies, four to six motorized rifle divisions and three tank brigades, the CIA estimated in 1979, would be assigned to this Front (page 149/201).
The pro-Soviet Bulgarian Fatherland Front took the power on 9 September 1944, after a coup d'état. [1] After the proclamation of the People's Republic of Bulgaria in 1946, the celebration of the military holiday on 6 May was stopped, with the date of 23 September was designated as the Day of the Bulgarian People's Army.
From 1950, the army was stationed in Sofia. During the Cold War it was reestablished, and it covered mainly the southwestern direction, opposing the Greek Army. The 3rd Army with headquarters in Sliven opposed the Turkish Land Forces' First Army, and the Bulgarian 2nd Army with its headquarters in Plovdiv was planned to support the 1st and 3rd ...
The peacetime army of 60,000 troops was expanded during the war to 370,000, [7] with almost 600,000 men mobilized in total out of a population of 4,300,000. [8] The Bulgarian field army consisted of nine infantry divisions, one cavalry division and 1,116 artillery units. [7]
Bulgarian troops were still exhausted by the first war, and the majority of Bulgaria's forces were deployed along the Ottoman border. During the war, Bulgaria fought against all its neighbours, including Romania, which did not participate in the first war. The 500,000-man Bulgarian army faced a total of 1,250,000 enemy troops from all sides. [9]
In the period after the Cold War the Bulgarian Army went through a period of constant restructuring and downsizing. In the summer of 1998 the three army para-recon battalions were disbanded and concentrated in the new 18th Parachute-Reconnaissance Regiment ( 18ти Парашутно-разузнавателен полк ( 18ти ПРП )) in ...
The NMMH was established in 1916, two years after a military-historical commission, consisting of an archive, exhibition and library, was founded. By that time it was one of only three Bulgarian museums in existence. Its first complete exhibition was only unveiled in 1937. Its current structure and name date from 1968. [2]
This is a list of Bulgarian generals from the period of the Principality (1878–1908) and Kingdom (1908–1946). The year each became a general is given in parentheses. The year each became a general is given in parentheses.