Latest news and stories about military history in Portugal for expats and residents.
Could what happened to the Armed Forces in Africa in 74/75 be repeated in another war scenario? 52 years later, with Defence and the military gaining influence, there are questions we must ask.
The Minister of Defence announced in Batalha a legislative change that grants the status of veteran to the military personnel present during the annexation of India in 1961.
Contrary to what Vasco Lourenço claims, the Group of Nine never joined any forces, nor did it join them, knowing that they aimed for the destruction of the 25th of April itself. Opinion piece by Pedro de Pezarat Correia.
An interview with authors M. Margarida Pereira-Müller and Cidália Vargas Pecegueiro about their book documenting the experiences of Portuguese women in military and security missions abroad, covering their motivations, the challenges of cultural adaptation, and the ongoing struggle for gender equality within the Armed Forces.
After more than 100 years in darkness, the photographs Major José Veloso de Castro took in Angola between 1904 and 1912 have been enlarged and are now on display in an exhibition at the Military Museum.
The first major exhibition dedicated to the photographic work of Major José Veloso de Castro (1869–1945), who arrived in Angola in 1902 to accompany military missions with the aim of carrying out topographical surveys, reveals a perspective beyond mere colonial documentation. It is on display at the Military Museum in Lisbon until 1 March.
During a training voyage in 1941, the cadets of the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque helped save lives after a ship was sunk by German submarines off South Africa and witnessed the horror of the Japanese invasion of Timor.
