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{{Military
| color=#99CCFF
| country= Panama
| image= [[Image:Flag of Panama.svg|200px]] 
| caption=
| age= 85 years
| availability='''''Males age 15-49:''''' 761,568 (2000 est.)
| service='''''Males age 15-49:''''' 521,487 (2000 est.)
| reaching age='''''Males:''''' 344,575 (2005 est.)
| active= 432,800
| branches= Servicio Aereo Nacional<br>([[Air force|National Air Service]])<br>Servicio Maritimo Nacional ([[Navy|National Maritime Service]])<br>Policia Nacional<br>([[Army|National Police and Army]])
| amount= USD 132 million
| percent GDP=1.6% (FY97)
}}

[[Panama]] is one of the two countries in [[Latin America]] (the other being [[Costa Rica]]) that have permanently abolished standing military forces.  This came as a result of a US invasion that overthrew a [[military dictatorship]] which ruled the country from [[1968]] to [[1989]]. The final military dictator, Manuel Noriega, had greatly embarrassed the US president, the first [[George H. W. Bush]], when American media exposed his long history of drug trafficking with US government knowledge. Many American conservatives had also long been hostile to Panama's military dictators because, in contrast to most Latin American dictators who favored the political right in the United States, Panama's military dictators were (at least nominally) leftists.

==History==
===The National Police===
(contracted; show full)== Further reading ==
* ''Military Foundations of Panamanian Politics,'' Robert C. Harding, Transaction Publishing, 2001.
* ''The History of Panama,'' Robert C. Harding, Greenwood Publishing, 2006.

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{{South America in topic|Military of}}

[[Category:Military of Panama| ]]