Thread: Mexico's Armed Forces

There have been several comments made here about Mexico taking over other countries once they get in control of U.S. If they have to actually fight a war to take over other countries, this is what they have to work with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Armed_Forces

For comparison, the U.S. has the largest defense budget in the world; FY2010 base budget of 533.8 billion with an additional 130 billion request to fund the War On Terrorism. The U.S. has 1,137,568 on active duty within the U.S. and 848,000 in reserves. I believe the article said 1,421,668 on active duty worldwide. They will be increasing those numbers soon because of the War On Terrorism.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_armed_forces

Of course, we will probably never again fight a war with Mexico, but it is interesting to look at the statistics.

Most wars in Mexico have been of internal nature, or imposed upon Mexico by foreign powers, such as the United States and France. The only notable exception was on WW2, when Mexico fought for the Allies against Japanese forces on the Pacific.

•Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821)
•Central American Federation War of independence (1822-1823)
•Texas War of Independence (1835-1836)
•First Franco-Mexican War ("The Pastry War") (183
•Yucatan Secession (1839-1843)
•Mexican-American War (1846-1847)
•Yucatan Rebellion (1847)
•Second Franco-Mexican War (1862-1867)
•Yaqui Indian War (1899-1904)
•Mexican Revolution (1910-1922)
•US Occupation of Veracruz (1914)
•US Punitive Expedition (1916-1917)
•World War Two (1942-1945)
•Chiapas Uprising (1994-Present)
•EPR Marxist Guerrilla Conflict (1996-Present)
•Mexico's Drug War (2006-Present)

The last three are ongoing, low-intensity conflicts, meaning no outright war between the opposing parties has ever happened, but it doesn't mean casualties don't exist. For instance, since the Mexico's Drug War was proclaimed by Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa on December 11, 2006, more than 18,000 people have been killed by confrontations between federal, state and local police forces against drug cartel members.

Ugh - I think maybe I should have posted this in the "Off Topic" Threads. If so, I apologize.

Below are the requirements to enter the mexican airforce academy.

Recruitment
To enter any of the campuses of the Air Force, SEDENA convenes a competitive entrance examination which is held each year. The requirements are:

Mexican citizenship and have no other nationality
Be the son of Mexican born parents
Minimum age of 15 years old at December 31 of the year in course
Maximum age of 20 years old at December 31 of the year in course
Have completed high school or equivalent
Minimun height of 1.65 m

Very interesting. They only want to enforce diversity on us, but they do the wise thing for themselves. Oh my!

Originally Posted by sarum

Very interesting. They only want to enforce diversity on us, but they do the wise thing for themselves. Oh my!

So true.

mexico's government and military were seriously hostile when they demanded that America's Border Patrol agent, who defended himself from mexico's citizens on the mexico side of the border who threw boulders at that American Border Patrol agent - who then had to defend himself because he knew he was going to be killed - that's how forcibly the boulders were against his body with nothing but a bicycle to hide behind, which I believe the mexicans destroyed with their boulders they were lodging at the Border Patrol Agent inside America's border.

mexico's military arrived within approximately one half hour, and are permanently on mexico's border in tijuana and other locations. And they're ordered to shoot to kill into America.

Please question everything you read on wikipedia. Anyone can print anything on that sight. No one is held accountable for what they post.

Nonetheless, point taken.

Still, mexico has their hooks in America, and rare few in America's government are shouting from the pain of those hooks which means they are not the target of mexico's clawed hooks.

For if they were, this would be over a long long time ago.

Originally Posted by GR

Please question everything you read on wikipedia. Anyone can print anything on that sight. No one is held accountable for what they post.

Good point.

Dixie

between 15 and 20? Im blow away! 15 years old??? Yet they want a HS diploma or equivalent....makes no sense to me

Originally Posted by cavmom

between 15 and 20? Im blow away! 15 years old??? Yet they want a HS diploma or equivalent....makes no sense to me

mexico "boots on the ground" forces exist inside America under the guise of illegal aliens - who needs their military to do lethal harm to Americans and their homeland?

You know it doesn't matter how small mexico's military is, because they've got tens of millions of "boots on the ground" inside America's border already.

And these mexico citizens inside America's borders are well fed, housed, flush with money (more than many Americans have), free education, free medical (everything health-wise is free for all illegal aliens, so they have to keep their documentation to prove they are actual illegal aliens) . . .

All taken care of by US with OUR TAX DOLLARS!

Maybe in mexico they can assure a full education for their citizens among their own countrymen and countrywomen?

Just saying, since they're such puritans who do nothing wrong - in the EYES OF too many in AMERICA'S GOVERNMENT.

Uneducated racist hypocrits.

I wasn't trying to make a point with these statistics. I just thought they were interesting. If you know of a better source, please post it here.