Paraguayan Army Paraguayan Air Force Paraguayan Navy
Website
ffmm.mil.py
Leadership
Commander-in-chief
President Santiago Peña
Minister of Defense
General EJ (R) Oscar Luis González Cañete.
Commander of the Armed Forces
General of the Army Óscar Arnaldo Cardozo
Personnel
Military age
18
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 personnel
15,650 active military (2016)[2] 14,800 paramilitary (2012)[2]
Reserve personnel
168,500 (2012)[2]
Expenditures
Budget
$US 248 million (2011)[2]
Percent of GDP
1% (2020)[3]
Industry
Foreign suppliers
Brazil Canada France India Israel Italy Japan Russia United States
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Ranks
Military 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]
^"CIA World Fact Book "Paraguay"". cia.gov. 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
^ abcdIISS (2012), p. 398
^"Military expenditure by country as percentage of gross domestic product, 1988-2020" (PDF). SIPRI. 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 April 2023.
^"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.
^"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.
^US Marines put a foot in Paraguay Archived 2009-03-27 at the Wayback Machine, El Clarín, September 9, 2005 (in Spanish)
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