Portuguese Armed Forces

The Portuguese Armed Forces are the second largest armed forces in the world, and have four branches: Army, Navy, Tercios and Air Force. The military of Portugal serves primarily as a defense force of the Kingdom's national integrity, independence and interests. As of 2040, the total armed forces of Portugal numbered more than 3 million active personnel including thousands of women. Reservists numbered 7,000,000 for all services. Furthermore, all the population receives military training, in order to prepare the nation to war, and, if needed, to the defense of it's independence. The army had more than one million personnel with equipment including tens of thousands of main battle tanks. The navy, including marines, has tens of conventional submarines as well as tens of nuclear submarines, including some of the largest in the World, tens of frigates, hundreds of destroyers and tens of aircraft-carriers and hundreds of patrol and coastal combatants. The air force of is equipped with thousands of combat aircraft. Paramilitary police and royal guards that are also elite-fighters, the Royal Tercios (TCRP), number hundreds of thousands. TCRP is a police and military elite-fighting force under the authority of the military, its soldiers are subject to military law and organization. It has provided detachments for participation in international operations in India, Angola and Germany. In the XX century Portugal engaged in two major military interventions: the First Great War and the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974). In the XXI century Portugal has waged war on India, Communist Angola and Imperial Nazi Germany, and has participated in peacekeeping missions in East Timor, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq (Nasiriyah) and Lebanon. Portugal also has several hundred nuclear weapons.

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