Manuel Coelho Baptista de Lima Military History Centre
Communication from Jaime Regalado, independent researcher in the field of military history, weapons expert at the Technical Expertise Office of the Lisbon District Attorney General’s Office and consultant to the Military Museums of Lisbon and Oporto The First World War was characterised in many ways as a conflict in which new means and technologies were exploited that directly influenced the tactics and minor strategy of land, naval and air warfare. The return of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (CEP), with the weaponry used in Flanders and trained in its use, was an important factor in the modernisation of the Portuguese Metropolitan Army, the effects of which extended to the military reforms of 1930 and, in some cases, to the post-World War II period, when NATO membership and the Cold War introduced new paradigms in military art. World War II, when NATO membership and the Cold War introduced new paradigms in military art.