Botswana - Order of Battle
There are several sources that provide order of battle information, and for the most part they agree on the major points [three infantry brigades, an armour brigade, and some air defense units, but at the batallion level there is sersious disagreement - it must be obvious that the distribution of infantry batallions is in error.
Order if Battle assessments are particularly tricky given the fairly rapid growth in the force, which nearly doubled in end-strength from 2005 to 2015, from approximately 8,500 as of 2005 to about 15,000 a decade later.
| Brigade | Battalion | Troops | Station |
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| | Force Training School
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| | 1 mechanical and electrical engineer regiment
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| | Signal Corps
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| | Medical Corps
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| | Ordnance Corps
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| | Armament Corps
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| | 1 Commando battalion
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| | 1 Para and Presidential Guard battalion
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| First Infantry Brigade | 5000 |
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| | 1st Inf Battalion | 500 | Ramokgwebana Border
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| | 2nd Inf Battalion | 500 | Tshesebe
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| | 3rd Inf Battalion | 500 | Bobonong
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| | 4th Inf Battalion | 500 | Francistown
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| | 5th Inf Battalion | 500 | Kasane
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| | 6th Inf Battalion | 500 | Francistown
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| | 7th Inf Battalion | 500 | Maitengwe Border - Senete
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| | 8th Inf Battalion | 500 | Tutume
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| | 9th Inf Battalion | 500 | Chobe National Park
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| | 10th Inf Battalion | 500 | Nata
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| Second infantry brigade
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| | 1st Inf Battalion | 500 |
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| | 2nd Inf Battalion | 500 |
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| Third infantry brigade
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| | 1st Inf Battalion | 500 |
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| | 2nd Inf Battalion | 500 |
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| 7th Armored Brigade
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| | 1st Armored Regiment [light] | | Serule
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| | 2nd Armored Regiment [light] | | Nata
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| | 3rd mechanized infantry Battalion | | Kasana
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| First Artillery Brigade (training unit ?) | 1,200 | Francistown
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| | medium regiment
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| | field regiment
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| | regiment
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| Second Artillery Brigade | 1,100 | Kasane
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| | regiment
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| | Heavy Mortar Battery 120mm
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| | MRL battery
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| 1 air defence artillery brigade (training unit ?)
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| | regiment
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| | regiment
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| Engineer Corps / regiment | 200 | Nata
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| | 1st Engineer Platoon | 50 | Nata
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| | 2nd Engineer Platoon | 50 | Debetsha
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| | 3rd Engineer Platoon | 50 | Senete
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| | 4th Engineer Platoon | 50 | Tutume
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