Land Forces
Commander of Land Forces is Lieutenant General Edward Katumba Wamala. Lieutenant General Wamala was among military cadets sent to Monduli Military Academy in Tanzania in 1979 (now the TPDF's Tanzania Military Academy, which Ugandan cadets still attend) and served as Inspector General of Police until 2005.
The IISS Military Balance 2007 estimates that the land forces include five divisions (each with up to five brigades), one armoured and one artillery brigade. The divisions are as follows:
- The 1st at Kakiri in Wakiso District,
- 2nd, HQ at Mbarara, the
- 3rd (HQ Mbale), the
- 4th with its headquarters at Gulu, and the
- 5th at Pader.
The armoured brigade appears to be at Masaka.
The 2nd Division, according to afdevinfo.com, includes the divisional headquarters at Mbarara, the 17th, 69th, 73rd, and 77th Battalions, the Rwenzori Mountain Alpine Brigade, possibly another Alpine brigade, and the 3rd Tank Battalion, and has been heavily involved with border operations since the Congo Civil War began in the 1990s.
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