National Armed Forces of The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

National Armed Forces Of The Bolivarian Republic Of Venezuela


National Bolivarian Armed Forces
Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana

Service branches National Army
National Navy
Military Aviation
National Guard
National Militia
Honor Guard
Leadership
Commander-in-Chief President Hugo Chávez
Minister of Defense Henry Rangel Silva
Commander of Operational Strategic Command Wilmer Omar Barrientos Fernández
Manpower
Conscription 18-30 years of age
30 month term
Active personnel 113,558 (2012)
Expenditures
Budget $4,508 billion (2012)
Percent of GDP 6.5% (2012)
1.1% (2010 est.)
Industry
Domestic suppliers CAVIM
CENARECA
MAZVEN
DIANCA
UCOCAR
G&F Tecnología
Foreign suppliers Russia
Spain
Italy
China
Belarus
Sweden
Austria
Brazil
South Africa
Iran
Belgium
Cuba
Japan
Argentina
Related articles
History Venezuelan War of Independence
Ranks Venezuelan military ranks

The main roles of the National Armed Forces of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana, FANB) are to defend the sovereign national territory of Venezuela, fight against drug trafficking, to provide search and rescue capabilities and in case of natural disasters protection and aid to the civilian population.

The Venezuelan National Armed Forces are denominated "Forjador de Libertades" or "Forger of Freedoms". This refers to the Venezuelan armies fighting in Venezuela's independence war, as well as the independence wars of five other countries, namely Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Panamá (then part of New Granada, present day Colombia) and Bolivia.

Currently, the national armed force of Venezuela is a conscript force. It does not have nuclear, chemical or biological warfare capability. It has established a number of partnerships with other regional militaries.

Read more about National Armed Forces Of The Bolivarian Republic Of Venezuela:  History of The Armed Forces of Venezuela, Doctrine, Organization and Structure, Branches of The Military, Budget, Military Justice, Personnel, Extensive Modernization Program, Controversy With The United States, Role of The Military in Venezuelan Politics, Role in Venezuelan Society, Military Industry

Famous quotes containing the words national, armed, forces and/or republic:

    The progress
    Is permanent like the preordained bulk
    Of the First National Bank
    Like fish sauce, but agreeable.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.
    Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    This declared indifference, but as I must think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I can not but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world ... and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
    Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)