I can't find any canon reference for Belize in my files, the nearest information about the area would be from the "Gateway to the Spanish Main" sourcebook which only really deals with Grenada. Chris Callahan's long lost Twilight 2000 page was dedicated to South America, particularly US forces in Panama which are quite detailed. There was also some information about the Panamanians, the Colombian Army, and a bunch of guerrilla outfits operating out of Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica. If anybody wants to have a look at it I can post it up.
Loren K. Wiseman's Merc 2000 Gazetteer has a nice scenario about a war between Guatemala and Belize.
Belize is an independent country supported by the British armed forces. Guatemala lays claim to the territory on the basis of several pre-19th Century historical treaties between Great Britain and Spain. The discovery of several large oil deposits beneath Belize is the main reason the country is of interest to the outside world, particularly the large global oil companies. The Belizean oil fields are currently controlled by Petro-Belize SA, owned by the government of Belize with several oil companies as major shareholders including the big British ones (Shell, BP). Those oil companies who don't have a share in Petro-Belize SA are supporting the Guatemalan's. The Guatemalan's attacked Belize believing the British wouldn't react. The British received advance information about it from insiders within the oil industry enabling British intelligence to reinforce its Belizean contingent using funds and resources from British based companies in the area. The Guatemalan attack soon stalled and for the past 18 months both sides have taken up see-saw attacks and counteroffensives.
Guatemala
Before the war, the Guatemalan Army was organized as an anti-guerrilla force, and split into more than three dozen separate battalions parcelled out among the country's 19 military districts. A few specialist units like the armoured company, the airborne battalion, or the special forces group rounded out the small force. As part of the preparations for war, six infantry brigades were formed by lumping three battalions together with a recon squadron and a few support assets. Mercenary troops were also used as cadres fort the brigade organizations, and also were used to fill in command positions in the battalions, rather than form separate units.
The Guatemalan Army has devoted four infantry brigades to the war, and also an armoured company, two special forces battalions (KAIBAL), three independent infantry companies and an airborne battalion. The rest of the Guatemalan Army is involved in anti-guerrilla operations in the interior of Guatemala. The Guatemalan Infantry Brigades are light infantry equipped with M16A2 or Galils, M60 MG's and 81mm mortars. Each brigade has a recon squadron with 4x Israeli made RBY Mk.1 armoured cars, and also an artillery group with 8x towed 105mm howitzers and 8x two and half ton trucks. The other units use the same small arms as the regular Army brigades. The armoured company has a HQ company with 1x M41 and 1x Jeep and three tanks platoons with 3x M41's each.
The Guatemalan Army is backed by the Air Force with two ground attack squadrons (8x A-37 each), a transport squadron (4x An-26 transports), and a helicopter force of 2x AH-1, 2x AH-6, 4x OH-6, 8x UH-1. The Guatemalan Navy also contributes nine SAR-33 type coastal patrol boats (three on the Atlantic), and 12 PBR type patrol boats on the Atlantic side of the continental divide.
Belize
The Belizean side consists on a British infantry regiment (British and European mercenaries), two local Belizean Brigades, and a mercenary air mobile battalion (Americans). The British and Belizean units use British Army small arms; L85/86's, FN FAL's, Sterling SMG, L7A1 GPMG's, 60mm mortars and Carl Gustav RCL. The airmobile battalion use American M16A2's, M60's, Dragon PIP, M214 6-pacs, Mk-19 GL and Stingers. The British Infantry Regiment has five infantry companies and uses Land Rovers, and is backed by a recon squadron with 6x Fox, a weapons platoon with 4x FV432 with 81mm mortars, an anti-tank platoon with 4x Spartans with Milan's and an air defence platoon with 4x towed Bofors 40mm AA guns and 1 ton trucks. The two Belizean brigades have three infantry companies and also have a weapons platoon, an anti-tank platoon and an air defence platoon each.
The Belizean's are backed by a force RAF aircraft (8x Harrier, 2x Chinooks) and 4x British Army Lynx's. The airmobile battalion also has 20 helicopters (2x AH-1, 2x OH-58, 16x UH-60). Belize also has four PBR-type patrol boats for river and coastal operations, as well as another six Napco raider river patrol boats co-opted from the coast guard. Belize pro-British sponsors are rumoured to have supplied two American experimental XM23AACVsfor use in riverine operations.
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