Colombia

Overview

Colombia's military needs are tied primarily to an insurgency threat that is now into its sixth decade and to a more recent crackdown on well-armed drug traffickers. Outside of minor splinter groups, the Colombian government's once preeminent ideological challenger, the FARC, has ceased to exist in the years subsequent to the peace agreement signed in 2016. However, pitched fighting between the central government and guerrilla and paramilitary forces such as the ELN...