Armed forces of Nepal

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Flag of Nepal.svg Armed Forces of Nepal
नेपाली सेना
Nepalese Armed Forces
guide
Commander in Chief : President ,
currently Bidhya Devi Bhandari
Military Commander: General Purna Chandra Thapa
Headquarters: Kathmandu NepalNepalNepal 
Military strength
Active soldiers: 95,000
Reservists: 62,000
Conscription: No
Eligibility for military service: (16–) 18
history
Founding: 1768

The armed forces of Nepal are the armed forces of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal . They emerged in 2008 from the former Royal Nepalese Army (founded in 1768).

structure

The armed forces include

  • Nepalese Army with the
    • Nepalese Army Air Service
  • Nepalese Armed Police Force (paramilitary) with planned 40,000 men.

The commander in chief is the President of Nepal . The armed forces comprise around 95,000 men. There are also 62,000 reservists. The defense budget is the equivalent of about $ 210,000,000.

history

Guard of the Nepalese Army in Basantapur Darbar Square

Prithvi Narayan Shah , who in 1768 chose Kathmandu as the capital, is considered the founder of today's Nepal . Despite the defeat in the Gurkha War (1814 to 1816), the Kingdom of Gorkha (later Nepal) was able to maintain its independence, but was obliged to provide troops for the British ( Gurkhas ).

On August 3, 1914, the then Prime Minister Chandra Shamsher made soldiers available to the British for Gurkha units , even before the official declaration of war in World War I. By the end of the war, Nepalese Gurkhas provided the British Indian Army with a total of 55,000 soldiers who fought for Great Britain in Afghanistan, in the Ottoman Empire , but also in Europe. An official declaration of war was not made.

The country also sent Gurkha troops in the Anglo-Afghan War of 1919 and in World War II , thereby making it clear that it was an “independent ally”.

From 1996 to 2006 the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) was in a civil war against the monarchy and the Hindu class system. The insurgents were branded as terrorists after September 11, 2001 . More people died in the internal political conflict within the next six months than in the previous six years. On November 21, 2006, the agreement to end the ten-year civil war was signed by Prime Minister Koirala and Maoist leader Dahal, known as Prachanda .

Prachanda resigned as prime minister on May 4, 2009 after a power struggle with the Nepalese military leadership. Dahal had fired army chief Rookmangud Katawal the day before because the army refused to accept former Maoist guerrillas into their ranks.

See also

Web links

Commons : Armed Forces of Nepal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kathmandu Post: Nepal Army chief Thapa to visit India on January 11
  2. ^ Nepali Army | नेपाली सेना. Accessed December 31, 2018 .
  3. ^ Armed Police Force, Nepal: Home. Accessed December 31, 2018 .
  4. ^ Madan Kumar Bhattarai: Diplomatic history of Nepal, 1901–1929. A critical appraisal of Nepal-British India relations. New Delhi 1990, ISBN 81-85304-11-4 , p. 33.
  5. ↑ Tagesschau : Serious setback for democracy in Nepal ( Memento from May 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) from May 4, 2009.
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