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Portuguese Armed Forces
Forças Armadas
Founded
1318; 704 years ago
Current form
1950; 74 years ago (1950)
Service branches
Portuguese Army Portuguese Navy Portuguese Air Force
Headquarters
Lisbon, Portugal
Leadership
President
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Prime Minister
Luís Montenegro
Minister of National Defence
Helena Carreiras
Chief of the General Staff
Admiral António Manuel Fernandes da Silva Ribeiro[1]
Personnel
Available for military service
2,566,264 males, age 18–35 (2010[4]), 2,458,297 females, age 18–35 (2010[4])
Fit for military service
2,103,080 males, age 18–35 (2010[4]), 2,018,004 females, age 18–35 (2010[4])
Reaching military age annually
62,208 males (2010[4]), 54,786 females (2010[4])
Active personnel
27,741 (2021)[2]
Deployed personnel
927 (2022)[3]
Expenditures
Budget
€ 4.000 billion (2023)[5]
Percent of GDP
1.40% (2023)
Industry
Domestic suppliers
Arsenal do Alfeite Edisoft EID, S.A. OGMA Tekever UAVision West Sea Shipyard
Foreign suppliers
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Finland
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States
Annual exports
€2,585 billion (2023)
Related articles
History
Military history of Portugal
Ranks
Military ranks of Portugal
The Portuguese Armed Forces (Portuguese: Forças Armadas) are the military of Portugal. They include the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the other unified bodies and the three service branches: Portuguese Navy, Portuguese Army and Portuguese Air Force.[6]
The President of the Republic is the head of the Portuguese military, with the title of "Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces" (Comandante Supremo das Forças Armadas).[7] The management of the Armed Forces and the execution of the national defense policy is however done by the government (chaired by the Prime Minister) via its Minister of National Defense.[8] The highest-ranking officer in the military is the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, which has operational control of the Armed Forces during peacetime and assumes their full control when a state of war exists.
The Armed Forces are charged with protecting Portugal as well as supporting international peacekeeping efforts when mandated by North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the United Nations or the European Union.
Portugal was ranked the 3rd most peaceful country in the World in the Global Peace Index 2017, presently not having significant national security issues. The Portuguese Armed Forces have been thus focused in non-military public service activities and in external military operations. Recent external operations include anti-piracy action in the Gulf of Aden, the conflicts in the Central African Republic and in Afghanistan, the peacekeeping missions in East-Timor, Lebanon, Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the air policing of Iceland and the Baltic States.[9]
Military units and other bodies are stationed all throughout Portuguese territory, including Continental Portugal, Madeira and the Azores.
The Portuguese Armed Forces were opened to women during the early-1990s. Portugal had mandatory conscription for all able-bodied men until November 2004.[10]
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^"Forças Armadas Portuguesas contabilizaram em 2021 um total de 27 741 efetivos".
^"MISSÕES EM NÚMEROS".
^"The World Factbook". Cia.gov. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
^"Military Spending by Country".
^"Lei Orgânica 1-A/2009 Capítulo I Artigo 7º Nº1" (PDF). Diário da República. XVII Governo Constitucional de Portugal. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
^"Lei 31-A/2006 Capítulo III Artigo 9º" (PDF). Diário da República. XVII Governo Constitucional de Portugal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2014..
^"Lei 31-A/2006 Capítulo IV Artigo 20º" (PDF). Diário da República. XVII Governo Constitucional de Portugal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
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