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	Brazilian Army
		Brazilian Army troops carry the national flag in the dimensions 90 x 128 cm.
		It is mounted on the same size staff and with the same finial as the Army standard, but the cravat is divided lengthwise yellow and green, with a gold fringe at the end, tied in a bow and fastened with a cockade of blue with the Cruzeiro do Sul in white stars, yellow, and green.
		The flag of the Minister of War (later Minister of the Army) was divided vertically, the hoist green with a golden-yellow lozenge throughout and thereon the national coat of arms, minus the scroll and background rays; fly divided horizontally into three equal stripes, blue, red, and blue.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/br^.html (492 words)

	Brazilian Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Brazilian Army is the land arm of the Brazilian Military.
		After the Brazilian declaration of independence from Portugal in 1822, the Brazilian Army was essential to avoid a fragmentation of the new Brazilian Empire.
		In 1944 the FEB (Brazilian Expeditionary Force) was sent to Italy to fight with the U.S. Fifth Army in Monte Castello.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brazilian_Army (853 words)

	Chapter XII: The Establishment of United States Army Forces in Brazil
		The Brazilian ground and air forces then stationed in the Northeast were not prepared in terms of either equipment or training to deal with an attack by modern combat forces, and the United States Navy patrol forces based there were neither adequate nor suitable for defense of land air bases.
		He learned that the Brazilian Army leaders had objected to severance of diplomatic relations with the Axis nations because they believed that that meant war in the near future, and they felt Brazil's armed forces were in no condition to participate in the war.
		The Brazilians had manifested this desire soon after their declaration of war, and during the fall of 1942 some Brazilian Army officers were urging an independent operation against Vichy-controlled French Guiana, or even Dakar.
	www.army.mil /cmh/books/wwii/Framework/ch12.htm (9180 words)

	The United States Army Homepage
		Losing a child in war is like losing an appendage, said two military wives and mothers whose sons have made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq during the third and final Family Forum at the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting Wednesday.
		Army to Expand Basic Combat Training to 10 Weeks
		"Army Family" video, as played during the Secretary of the Army's AUSA keynote address.
	www.army.mil (266 words)

	Foreign Military Studies Office Publications - The Brazilian Amazon: Controlling the Hydra
		The detachment was at an outpost on the Traíra, 400 kilometers north of the Brazilian Army's Frontier Command headquarters at Tabatinga.
		Brazilian President Cardoso unfolded a vision for national security and development that depends on a "ring of peace" around the Amazon and the rest of the country.
		The army's role "to protect the Brazilian Amazon Region with the support of all of society and by utilizing the military presence" requires reassessing its force structure and operational concepts for defending the jungle patrimony.
	fmso.leavenworth.army.mil /documents/hydra/hydra.htm (5784 words)

	Ex?ito Brasileiro - Brazilian Army
		Not only did senior army generals occupy the presidency from 1964 until 1985, but most of the officers who held cabinet posts during that time were from the army.
		In 1964, for example, close to two-thirds of the Brazilian troops were in the Third Army, and somewhat fewer than one-third were in the First Army.
		The move to occupy the Amazon and the short-term political implications of the army's reorganization should not be overstated.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/brazil/army.htm (1044 words)

	Fear and Memory in the Brazilian Army and Society, 1889-1954, by Shawn C. Smallman. Introduction. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Coelho argued that the army suffered from an "identity crisis" and became increasingly alienated from society.
		A chart of the army's official hierarchy would ignore them, yet these factors define power within the institution to such an extent that an alternative hierarchy predicts officers' authority nearly as much as their official rank.
		Recent democratization has created a mood of optimism about civil-military relations in Latin America.[21] But regional armies continue to influence civilian policy through the legacy of fear, military violence, paramilitary organizations, and civil-military alliances.[22] In this context, it is crucial to critically examine these armies' history and the complex factors shaping their involvement in politics.
	uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/smallman_fear.html (2544 words)

	ABC News: Drug Gangs Challenge Brazilian Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Brazilian soldiers stand near 10 kilograms (25 pounds) of recovered cocaine, several weapons and munitions during an operation looking for stolen weapons at the Providencia hillside slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, March 10, 2006.
		The occupation by some 1,600 troops came in response to the robbery of 10 assault rifles and one pistol stolen from army barracks last Friday by seven gunmen wearing army-issue camouflage gear and ninja masks.
		Army officials insisted the operation did not represent an attempt to seize control of the shantytowns or to disarm the gangs and that soldiers would leave as soon as the weapons were recovered.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1712475 (499 words)

	Foreign Military Studies Office Publications - Guerrilla in The Brazilian Amazon
		In the Brazilian territory, the command post of CMA remained in Vila Bittencourt, state of Amazonas, headquarters of one of the border platoons along the Colombian frontier.
		In these ways, the Brazilian Army is given an adequate structure for the preparation, planning and conduct of operations to confront adversary forces in defense of the strategic Amazon area.
		Brazilian exploration and settlement far to the west of the line of demarcation in subsequent centuries (toward the mouth of the Amazon and past) laid a firm basis for Brazil's claim to vast areas of the interior of South America.
	fmso.leavenworth.army.mil /documents/amazon/amazon.htm (11029 words)

	Brazilian Army Aviation / Aviação do Exército
		However, army officers were involved in pioneering the military use of aviation assets in Brazil as well.
		Subsequently, army as well as navy air assets were amalgamated under the 3rd armed force of the Air Force during 1941.
		Nowadays, the army is gradually growing to a fully-fledged army air force.
	www.scramble.nl /mil/8/brazil/army-main.htm (514 words)

	Green Left - Brazilian army invades Rio
		An army spokesmen said the shot was an accident.
		In the same slum, a church was invaded by the army.
		The army knows that most of the drug gangs are made up of people aged between 13 and 21.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1995/173/12717 (1358 words)

	CHAPTER V
		It was necessary to notify Brazilian health authorities of the expected increase in the movement of aircraft from Africa to Brazil when provision was made to redeploy men and planes from Europe to the United States via the South Atlantic route.
		The appreciation of the Brazilian Army’s Surgeon General was conveyed in a letter from the Joint Brazil-U.S. Military Commission in Rio de Janeiro to the theater surgeon in which the professional efforts of these officers were highly commended.
		The director of the Brazilian Port Health Service continued to be dissatisfied with the degree of cooperation received from the Army Air Forces crews in disinsectizing their planes, even after the regulation was revised on 30 November 1942.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/wwii/civilaffairs/chapter5.htm (10157 words)

	Brazil - Brazzil Mag - Brazilian Army Patrols Pará Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Brazilian army continues to patrol 17 cities in the state of Pará, in the Amazon region, as part of Operation Pacification.
		According to the Army, around 90% of the military personnel stationed in the state of Pará are natives of the region, and there is no specified date for withdrawal of the troops.
		Brazilian composer Carlos Alberto Ferreira Braga, Braguinha, one of Brazil's most enduring and beloved popular composers, died Sunday, December 24, in Rio de Janeiro, at the age of 99.
	www.brazzilmag.com /content/view/1721 (868 words)

	Brazilian army commander to visit India on Dec 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Brazilian army commander General Francisco Roberto De Albuquerque will be visiting India from December 3 to 9 to take forward the bilateral defence ties.
		The recent exchange of high-level visits between the two armies is seen as a big step in fostering the bilateral relationship into a mutually beneficial partnership.
		Of late, countries from South America have evinced keen interest in interacting with the Indian Army, especially due to the reputed training institutions and rich operational experience of the Indian Army, both in conventional and sub- conventional warfare.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20061201/523334.html (313 words)

	Brazilian Army Chief to India's Jungle Warfare School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is the first visit by the Brazilian army Chief to the school.
		It is in response to the visit of Indian Army Chief General J J Singh to Brazil earlier this year.
		On his arrival at the school the Brazilian Army Chief will be received by the Commandant CIJW School, Brig R M Painuly, who will also brief the visiting dignitary about the training infrastructure available at the school.
	news.webindia123.com /news/articles/India/20061206/529637.html (252 words)

	Brazilian Officer's Visit Begins Environmental Cooperation
		Tony Francis, right, commander of the U.S. Army Environmental Center, discusses installation sustainability with Col. Jamil Megid Jr., assistant military attaché at the Brazilian embassy, during Megid’s visit to the Center Jan. 26.
		A Brazilian officer researching better ways for his country's military to manage the environment made the U.S. Army Environmental Center, on the Edgewood area of Aberdeen Proving Ground, his first stop Jan. 26.
		Most of the environmental work in the Brazilian Army is done by the Department of Engineering, roughly similar to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in its mission to build roads and waterways, Megid explained.
	aec.army.mil /usaec/publicaffairs/news/news08.html (420 words)

	Soldiers of the Pátria: A History of the Brazilian Army, 1889-1937 - Frank D. McCann
		This book provides an authoritative history of the Brazilian army from the army’s overthrow of the monarchy in 1889 to its support of the coup that established Brazil’s first civilian dictatorship in 1937.
		The period between these two events laid the political foundations of modern Brazil—a period in which the army served as the core institution of an expanding and modernizing Brazilian state.
		The book is based on detailed research in Brazilian, British, American, and French archives, and on numerous interviews with surviving military and civilian leaders.
	www.sup.org /book.cgi?book_id=3222 (309 words)

	Henrique Dias - The First Black General - One of Brazilian Army Patriarchs - Military Photos
		DIAS, Henrique, Brazilian soldier, born in Pernambuco at the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th century; died in Recife, 31 August 1661.
		In 1633 the Portuguese army was suffering continuous defeats from the invading Dutch forces, which advanced to the conquest of the country, when a party of Negroes, headed by Dias, appeared before General Matias de Albuquerque, commanding the Luso-Brazilian, and offered to fight against the invaders.
		Albuquerque confirmed Dias as captain of his men, and on 18 September of the same year Dias rendered great service, guiding an expedition of 200 Portuguese to cut off the march of 1,000 Dutch troops that were coming to the relief of Iguarassú.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=100945 (562 words)

	10/4/2005 -- Brazilian Army Worries Foreign Powers May Eye Amazon
		However, the ultimate concern of Brazilian military strategists is that one day they might end up fighting a foreign power for control of the Amazon.
		The perceived threat that lurks at the back of many Brazilians' minds is that outsiders covet the Amazon, a fear fanned whenever a foreign politician talks about the forest and its waters as an international resource.
		In other spheres, the army's main role was to back up civilian agencies, he said.
	www.forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=40739 (1094 words)

	Brazilian Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the largest navy in Latin America, with a 27,307-ton aircraft carrier, the NAeL São Paulo (formerly FS Foch of the French Navy), some American and British-built frigates, a few locally-built corvettes, coastal diesel-electric submarines (with a nuclear submarine under development) and many other river and coastal patrol craft.
		These naval forces were then used in the Brazilian War of Independence, which had begun a year earlier.
		These vessels, of the Minhas Gerais class, were the last battleships of the Brazilian Navy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brazilian_Navy (440 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Book Review - Soldiers of the Pátria: A History of the Brazilian Army, 1889-1937 - Frank D. McCann
		The great strength of McCann's book is that he aims to see the army from the inside out, in terms of its internal dynamics and powerful figures.
		The officer corps, in contrast to other Brazilian elites, was nationalist both by definition and by constitutional mandate.
		In the 1920s, internal rebellion and social change threatened the army's cohesion, but the institution reinvented itself in the 1930s, when it played a critical role in establishing the dictatorship of Getulio Vargas.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /20040501fabook83344/frank-d-mccann/soldiers-of-the-p-tria-a-history-of-the-brazilian-army-1889-1937.html (298 words)

	Brazilian Comblain
		It was the official Brazilian Army pattern from 1873 to 1892.
		Very little is known in the United States of the Brazilian Comblains as most of the literature relating to them is published in Portugese, but they appear to have had a hard working, honorable career spanning about 20 years in the service of the regular Brazilian Army.
		The Brazilian Comblain's hammer lacks a cocking spur as it is housed within a shroud, making it one of the first concealed hammer guns.
	www.militaryrifles.com /Brazil/BrazComb.htm (1134 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: The Framework of Hemisphere Defense [Chapter 12]
		Conference, Army opinion was unanimous that the principal Brazilian air bases must be defended by American combat forces just as soon as possible.
		The Army Air Forces was about to launch its Project X--the planned movement of eighty heavy bombers to the Far East, initiated by orders of 19 December.
		Neither did the Brazilians want all of the motor vehicles offered, but they did want a good many more light tanks, and many items not offered-medium tanks, antiaircraft guns, antitank guns, and combat airplanes-items that the Army did not believe it could release for months to come.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-WH-Frame/USA-WH-Frame-12.html (11402 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Brazil army ends Rio occupation
		The Brazilian army has ended a nine-day occupation of slums in Rio de Janeiro aimed at recovering weapons stolen from an army base.
		The army says it will continue to mount further operations to find the weapons.
		The army says it will continue to mount more targeted raids and search in co-ordination with the police until the weapons are recovered.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4803944.stm (341 words)

	Brazilian Army - About Army in Brazil
		From 1946 through 1985, the army was divided into four numbered armies: the First Army was centered in Rio de Janeiro, the Second Army in São Paulo, the Third Army in Porto Alegre, and the Fourth Army in Recife.
		The major addition was the Western Military Command (Comando Militar do Oeste--CMO), whose territory encompasses the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul (previously under the Second Army territory), and Rondônia (previously under the CMA).
		In what is perhaps an anachronism, the CML in Rio de Janeiro continues to have some of the best troop units and the most modern equipment (see table 29, Appendix).
	www.floridabrasil.com /brazil/about-Brazil-National-Security-Army.htm (912 words)

	Brazilian Army chief visits J&K : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Accompanied by his better-half, Brazilian Army Chief, General Francisco Roberto de Albuquerque, on Tuesday visited 16 Corps, Nagrota, 12 kms from Jammu.
		Meanwhile, the official handout of 16 Corps released in Jammu on Wednesday stated that "the General was accorded a red carpet welcome and was received by Lt Gen TK Sapru, General Officer Commanding, 16 Corps.
		"The Brazilian Army chief had an interaction and discussion with General Sapru on varying subjects of mutual interests.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1860545,000900010002.htm (217 words)

	CBS News \| Brazilian Army Finds Stolen Weapons
		The condition of the injured resident was not immediately known.
		Tuesday's invasion came a day after the army ended a 10-day occupation of six shantytowns, including the Providencia Hill slum, where drug gangs regularly challenged the troops.
		Rio is one of the world's most violent cities, with an annual homicide rate of nearly 50 per 100,000 people.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/03/15/ap/world/mainD8GBOFDG0.shtml (413 words)

	Generals of World War II
		This section covers Brazilian army generals between 1942-1945.
		This section covers Polish army generals between 1939-1945.
		It includes the generals from the Royal Army as well as the communist partisans.
	www.generals.dk /generals.php (480 words)

	America's Army - Community - Fan Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		MilitarySim.com, one of the oldest America's Army fansites, provides the most complete gaming experience possible for all players of military simulation games, through a combination of community support, helpful staff, current news, accurate content, reliable gameservers, detailed reviews, and special features and projects.
		We are the first Brazilian site to exist supporting AA:O. We have forums, downloads and full support for Brazilian servers.
		Department of the Army or the Department of Defense.
	www.americasarmy.com /community/fansites.php (690 words)

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