Czechoslovak People's Army

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Czechoslovak People's Army
Československá lidová armáda (in Czech) Československá ľudová armáda (in Slovak)
Flag of the Czechoslovak People's Army (1960–1990)
Motto	Za vlast–za socialismus Za vlasť–za socializmus (For Homeland–For Socialism)
Founded	1 June 1954
Disbanded	14 March 1990
Service branches	Land Forces Air Force
Headquarters	Prague, Czechoslovakia
Leadership
President of Czechoslovakia	See list Klement Gottwald, Antonín Zápotocký, Antonín Novotný, Ludvík Svoboda, Gustáv Husák, Václav Havel
Minister of Defence	See list Alexej Čepička, Bohumír Lomský, Martin Dzúr, Milán Václavík, Miroslav Vacek
Chief of the General Staff	See list Václav Kratochvíl [cs], Otakar Rytíř [cs], Karel Rusov [cs], Miloslav Blahník [cs], Miroslav Vacek, Anton Slimák
Personnel
Active personnel	201,000 (1987)
Related articles
Ranks	Ranks of the Czechoslovak Armed Forces

The Czechoslovak People's Army (Czech: Československá lidová armáda, Slovak: Československá ľudová armáda, ČSLA) was the armed forces of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1954^[1] until 1989. From 1955 it was a member force of the Warsaw Pact. On 14 March 1990 the Army's name was officially reverted back to the Czechoslovak Army removing the adjective "People's" from the name. The Czechoslovak Army was split into the Army of the Czech Republic and the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 1 January 1993.