The Standing Army

NewsFuerzas armadasExercito Marinha Forca Aerea Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico Centroamerica y Caribe Estructura y mando Personnel and budget Servicio militar y reclutamiento Carrera militar y formacion Venezuela: Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana and the Milicia Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay Ecuador: Fuerzas Armadas and the state of internal conflict Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica (no standing a Cuba: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias Dominican Republic and Haiti Guyana Defence Force, Suriname and Belize Reserves, national guard and mobilisation Ranks and insignia by countryEquipamientoCombat and transport aviation Buques y submarinos Vehiculos blindados Artilleria y misiles Drones y sistemas no tripulados Comunicaciones y ciberdefensa Industria de defensa regional: Embraer, Avibras, FAMAE, IMBEL Programas de modernizacionBudget and shoppingDefence budgets by country Spending as a share of GDP Licitaciones y contratos International purchases Offsets and technology transfer Transparencia y auditoria Corrupcion en contratacionesRoles y operacionesSeguridad interior y militarizacion Lucha contra el narcotrafico Control de fronteras Humanitarian aid and natural disasters UN peacekeeping operations Soberania amazonica y antartica Ciberdefensa Espacio y satelites UN peacekeeping contributions and the MINUSTAH legacy in Haiti Wildfire, flood and earthquake response Search and rescue and the Antarctic resupply Election security deployments Prison control operations Vaccine and logistics support during emergencies Counter-mining and environmental enforcement in the Amazon Space situational awareness and national satellite programmesPolitica y controlCivilian control of the armed forces Relacion militares y democracia Justicia militar Memoria y derechos humanos Veteranos y pensiones Women in the armed forces Reformas institucionales Defence ministries and whether the minister is a civilian Legislative oversight committees by country Intelligence services and their oversight Amnesty laws and their reversal Truth commissions and archives Military courts versus civilian jurisdiction Protest policing and use of force rules Promotion lists and political interferenceNewsMilitarised police and gendarmeriesGuardia Nacional Secretaria de Seguridad y Proteccion Ciudadana Policia Militar by state Forca Nacional de Seguranca Publica Policia Rodoviaria Federal Gendarmeria Nacional Prefectura Naval Argentina Chile: Carabineros de Chile Colombia: Policia Nacional and its Direccion de Carabineros Peru: Policia Nacional del Peru Ecuador and Bolivia: police under state of exception Policia Militar de Orden Publico in Honduras PNC in Guatemala and El Salvador Why the army-police boundary is the region's central defence question

CBC

Everything filed under regional builders in our defence coverage, with new reporting added as it publishes.

No articles filed here yet. New reporting appears as it is published.

The Standing Army covers Defence.

About · Editorial policy · Privacy · Contact · RSS

© 2026 thestandingarmy.com. Independent publication. All articles are written from reported sources, which are linked on every page.