Editing Brazilian Armed Forces (section)

==Organization==
The Armed Forces of Brazil are divided into 3 branches:<ref name=contituicao>{{cite web | title = Brazilian Federal Constitution | publisher = Brazilian Government (official text) | url = http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/Constituicao/Constituicao.htm | access-date = 2007-05-17 }} See also: [http://www.v-brazil.com/government/laws/titleI.html "Brazilian Federal Constitution in English"], text translated to English (unofficial). Retrieved on 2007-05-17.</ref>
* [[Brazilian Army]]
**[[Brazilian Army Aviation Command]]
* [[Brazilian Navy]]
**[[Brazilian Marine Corps]]
**[[Brazilian Naval Aviation]]
* [[Brazilian Air Force]]
**[[Aerospace Operations Command]]

The [[Military Police (Brazil)|Military Police]] (state police) alongside the [[Military Firefighters Corps]] are described as an auxiliary and reserve force of the Army.<ref name=contituicao/> All military branches are part of the [[Ministry of Defence (Brazil)|Ministry of Defence]].<ref>Ministry of Defence Structure [http://www.defesa.gov.br/estrutura/index.php "Defence"] ''Ministério da Defesa''. Retrieved June 22, 2007. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414144154/http://www.defesa.gov.br/estrutura/index.php |date=April 14, 2015 }}</ref>

The [[Brazilian Navy]] which is the oldest of the Brazilian Armed Forces, includes the [[Brazilian Marine Corps]] and the [[Brazilian Naval Aviation]].

===Service obligation and manpower===
There is compulsory military service for those aged 18–45; conscript service obligation – 10 to 12 months; voluntary service is allowed from age 17–45. An increasing percentage of the ranks are "long-service" volunteer professionals; women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in the early 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps.<ref name="ReferenceD">{{Cite CIA World Factbook|country=Brazil|date=11 February 2022}}</ref>

===Mission and challenges===
South America is a relatively peaceful continent in which wars are a rare event;<ref name="p. 9">{{cite news |url=http://www.senado.gov.br/JORNAL/arquivos_jornal/arquivosPdf/080331.pdf |page=9 |newspaper=Jornal do Senado |language=pt-br |title=Corrida bélica ao sabor da economia |date=6 April 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320032948/http://www.senado.gov.br/JORNAL/arquivos_jornal/arquivosPdf/080331.pdf | archive-date=2009-03-20 | url-status=dead}}</ref> as a result, Brazil hasn't had its territory invaded since 1865 during the [[Paraguayan War]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revista/Epoca/0,,EMI14439-15273-3,00-UMA+NOVA+AGENDA+MILITAR.html |title=Especial – NOTÍCIAS – Uma nova agenda militar |publisher=Revistaepoca.globo.com |access-date=2010-06-19 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224065239/http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revista/Epoca/0,,EMI14439-15273-3,00-UMA+NOVA+AGENDA+MILITAR.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Additionally, Brazil has no contested territorial disputes with any of its neighbours<ref name="ReferenceD"/> and neither does it have rivalries, like [[Chile]] and [[Bolivia]] have with each other.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200610/25/eng20061025_315049.html |title=People's Daily Online – Bolivia bans Argentina from reselling gas to Chile |publisher=English.peopledaily.com.cn |date=2006-10-25 |access-date=2010-06-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3632235.stm | work=BBC News | title=Fresh anger over Bolivia gas plan | date=April 16, 2004 | access-date=April 1, 2010}}</ref> However, Brazil is the only country besides China and Russia that has land borders with 10 or more nations. Moreover, Brazil has {{convert|16,880|km|mi|sp=us}} of land borders<ref name="ReferenceB">{{cite web |url=http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revista/Epoca/0,,EMI14439-15273-2,00-UMA+NOVA+AGENDA+MILITAR.html |title=Especial – NOTÍCIAS – Uma nova agenda militar |publisher=Revistaepoca.globo.com |access-date=2010-06-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170325232014/http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revista/Epoca/0%2C%2CEMI14439-15273-2%2C00-UMA%2BNOVA%2BAGENDA%2BMILITAR.html |archive-date=2017-03-25 }}</ref> and {{convert|7367|km|mi|abbr=on}}<ref name="educacao.uol.com.br">{{cite web|url=http://educacao.uol.com.br/geografia/litoral-brasileiro.jhtm |title=Litoral brasileiro – Geografia – UOL Educação |publisher=Educacao.uol.com.br |date=2007-12-20 |access-date=2010-06-19}}</ref> of coastline to be patrolled and defended. Overall, the Armed Forces have to defend 8.5&nbsp;million km<sup>2</sup> (around 3.2&nbsp;million sq. mi.) of land and patrol 4.4&nbsp;million km<sup>2</sup> (around 1.7&nbsp;million sq. mi.)<ref>[https://www.mar.mil.br/secirm/document/livrogeo.pdf] (p.22) {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320032951/https://www.mar.mil.br/secirm/document/livrogeo.pdf|date=March 20, 2009}}</ref> of [[territorial waters]] – or ''[[Brazilian Blue Amazon|Blue Amazon]]'', as the [[Brazilian Navy]] calls them.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.mar.mil.br/menu_v/amazonia_azul/amazonia_azul.htm| title = Amazônia Azul<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref> To achieve this mission, significant manpower and funding is required.