Manuel Coelho Baptista de Lima Military History Branch
Speaker: Jaime Regalado, an independent researcher in the field of Military History. He is a weapons expert at Gabinete Técnico de Perícias in Procuradoria Geral Distrital de Lisboa and consultant to the Military Museums of Lisbon and Porto.
World War I was characterised in many ways as a conflict in which new resources and technologies were exploited that directly affected the tactics and strategies before used on land, naval and air warfare.
The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (CEP) returned with the weaponry used in Flanders and instructed in its use, which then became an important vector in the modernisation of the Portuguese Metropolitan Army, the effects of which lasted until the military reforms of the 1930s and, in some cases, until after the Second World War, when NATO membership and the Cold War introduced new paradigms in military art.