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The Registered Cossacks of the Kingdom of Pelinai are a Pelinese military organization that functions as the region-based military reserve component of the Pelinese White Army and the Royal Pelinese Air Force. The Registered Cossacks provide uniformed services support to federal regions in a variety of localized emergency situations as well as serve as a fully equipped and trained reserve force of the regular Pelinese military.

The Registered Cossacks are organized by the federal regions of Pelinai with both regional- and federal-provided funding; they are under the operational control of the regional executives during peacetime when not federalized by the federal government, while administrative control is exercised by the Directorate of Cossack Troops under the Pelinese Ministry of Defense. Peacetime activities of the Registered Cossacks include the assistance of civil defense forces during local natural disasters, the suppression of civil disorder, and the provision of security assistance to police during major events. In the event of military conflict, the Prime Minister of Pelinai may exercise the power to federalize the Registered Cossacks and place them under the operational command of the relevant branches of the Pelinese Armed Forces in order to provide them with additional forces: in such situations, deployed formations of the Registered Cossacks fight under military command as regular and non-regional reserve troops of the Pelinese Armed Forces do. Cossack troops that have been federalized may also be deployed on internal operations in severe civil disorder situations through invocation of the Internal Security Act, in which case they act as in region-ordered deployments and/or in support of deployed internal troops of the Pelgvardiya.

The Registered Cossacks of the Kingdom of Pelinai trace their history back to the use of ethnic Loshkar cossack military forces during the early 19th century wars of Pelinese unification and up to the institution’s abolition in 1907. The cossack institution was later revived in Pelinai 74 years later, in 1984, in response to the need to provide a region-level military and security force to the newly created federal regions of Pelinai; this resulted in the creation of five new cossack hosts, including both the old Loshkar and Samarahi Hosts as well as new Stelossian, Yukisoran, and Sevar Hosts in regions where the historical institution was never widely established. (Full article...)