Armed Forces of Paraguay

Armed Forces of the Nation
Fuerzas Armadas de la Nación
Paraguayan Coat of Arms
MottoVencer o morir
("Win or die")
Service branchesParaguayan Army
Paraguayan Air Force
Paraguayan Navy
Websiteffmm.mil.py
Leadership
Commander-in-chiefPresident Santiago Peña
Minister of DefenseGeneral EJ (R) Oscar Luis González Cañete.
Commander of the Armed ForcesGeneral of the Army Óscar Arnaldo Cardozo
Personnel
Military age18
Available for
military service
1,678,335[1], age 16–49 (2010 est.)
Fit for
military service
1,409,859, age 16–49 (2010 est.)
Reaching military
age annually
73,367 (2010 est.)
Active personnel15,650 active military (2016)[2]
14,800 paramilitary (2012)[2]
Reserve personnel168,500 (2012)[2]
Expenditure
Budget$US 248 million (2011)[2]
Percent of GDP1% (2020)[3]
Industry
Foreign suppliersBrazil
Canada
France
India
Israel
Italy
Japan
Russia
United States
Related articles
RanksMilitary ranks of Paraguay

The Armed Forces of Paraguay (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas de Paraguay) officially the Armed Forces of the Nation (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas de la Nación)[4] consist of the Paraguayan army, Paraguayan navy (including naval aviation and marine corps) and air force.

The constitution of Paraguay establishes the president of Paraguay as the commander-in-chief.

Paraguay has compulsory military service, and all 18-year-old males and 17-year-olds in the year of their 18th birthday are liable for one year of active duty. The 1992 constitution allows for conscientious objection to obligatory military service, it was legislated and sanctioned by both chambers of the Congress, to be promulgated by the Executive Power on June the 17th of 2010. This law is known as, «Law number 4013/10, "That established the exercise of the right to conscientious objection to obligatory military service and establishes the substitute service for it for the benefit of the civilian population"»

In July 2005, military aid in the form of U.S. Special Forces began arriving at Paraguay's Mariscal Estigarribia air base, a sprawling complex built in 1982.[5][6]

  1. ^ "CIA World Fact Book "Paraguay"". cia.gov. 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d IISS (2012), p. 398
  3. ^ "Military expenditure by country as percentage of gross domestic product, 1988-2020" (PDF). SIPRI. 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Ley Nº 216 / ORGANIZACION GENERAL DE LAS FUERZAS ARMADAS DE LA NACION". Biblioteca y Archivo del Congreso de la Nación. 8 September 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  5. ^ "U.S. Military Moves in Paraguay Rattle Regional Relations". International Relations Center. December 14, 2005. Archived from the original on 2007-06-12. Retrieved 26 October 2006.
  6. ^ US Marines put a foot in Paraguay Archived 2009-03-27 at the Wayback Machine, El Clarín, September 9, 2005 (in Spanish)