High Commands of Forces of the Pelinese Armed Forces (Pacifica)

High Commands of Forces (Stelossian: Верховное Командование Войсками, Verkhovnoye Komandovaniye Voyskami) in the Pelinese military usage, commonly referred to in Pelinai by their Stelossian acronym of VKVs, are commands of the Pelinese Armed Forces that combine formations from multiple branches of the military under a single overarching command level in order to ensure unity of effort and facilitate the effective execution of joint military operations. They are broadly comparable to unified combatant commands and similar formations in other militaries.

High Commands of Forces comprise the highest level of command in the Pelinese Armed Forces that possesses operational command authority: each command is led by a four-star flag officer who reports directly to the Minister of Defense. They may be organized along responsibility of either geographical area or function. There are currently seven active High Commands of Forces: three corresponding to geographical areas and an additional four corresponding to particular military functions of strategic breadth.

The VKV concept was first implemented in the modern Pelinese military as an ad-hoc construct during the Pelinese Civil War, where they were used to coordinate land, air, and naval components of Pelinese White Army forces that were present in the same operating theater. Postwar military reorganization into the modern Pelinese Armed Forces has since formalized and refined the VKV system while also expanding on it. Its modern implementation has provided the Pelinese Armed Forces with a responsive, versatile, and well-coordinated high command structure that is capable of planning and executing complex modern joint force operations involving larger theater areas and a greater variety of military formations operating in the terrestrial, naval, aerial, orbital, and cyberspace domains.

History

The concept of the High Command of Forces as it is applied now first appeared in the modern incarnation of the Pelinese military during the Pelinese Civil War, when land, air, and naval formations raised under the unified Pelinese White Army were combined into joint-force Theaters of Military Operations (TVDs) by geographical area of responsibility and placed under the direct authority of the wartime Supreme High Command. Despite being established primarily due to the lack of preexisting service chiefs or defined military branches in the Pelinese White Army, these formations proved to be effective at facilitating successful coordination of efforts between available land, aerial, and naval warfare components of the military in zones such as the Northern and Western Theaters of Military Operations.

After the conclusion of the Pelinese Civil War, the Pelinese White Army began planning for the eventual reorganization of its administrative and operational structures from their current, ad-hoc forms into a formal state military organization; this included, among other reforms, the establishment of separate military branches and function-based directorates such as the directorate of the ground forces, the directorate of the navy, and the directorate of the air forces. Despite the planned establishment of a traditional branched military structure, however, the Pelinese Provisional Government retained interest in formalizing the combined force and command structures of the Pelinese White Army in the upcoming restructuring due to the benefits to coordination that were demonstrated during the Pelinese Civil War.

1984 reorganization

After several months of planning and discussion from January to August 1983, the Supreme High Command of the Pelinese White Army settled on the formalization of the Theater of Military Operations system and the establishment of two TVDs: one responsible for eastern Pelinai and the Eastern Ocean, and one responsible for western Pelinai and the Mediterranean Sea. As with the original implementation, these new Theaters of Military Operations were placed directly under the new Minister of Defense: the new branch commanders were instead given the role of implementing administrative functions such as training, doctrine, and personnel management, as well as the establishment of the formations which were to be placed under the TVDs.

This system of operational TVDs and administrative branches greatly simplified the strategic-level chain of command over the new Pelinese Armed Forces, which now traveled directly from Prime Minister to Minister of Defense to the new group of Theater Commanders with full operational command authority over their assigned forces.

Later additions

As the Pelinese Armed Forces have obtained new weapon systems, resources, and capabilities, the TVD system has been expanded and modified. The establishment of a unified special forces command in 1996 led to the TVDs’ renaming to High Commands of Forces in order to allow for the possibility of non-geography-based commands, three more of which would be established in 2004, 2015, and 2018. The geographical zones of the Eastern and Western VKVs have also been moved and expanded over time in order to reflect the increasing reach of Pelinese military forces and power projection capability: the Eastern Command has absorbed the entirety of the eastern continents, including the entire original area of the Western Command, while the Western Command has shifted further away from mainland Pelinai. A new geographical command for the space domain was also added in 2007 in order to provide command authority over emerging Pelinese satellite and other space systems.

List of active VKVs

Below is a list of the seven active High Commands of Forces in the Pelinese Armed Forces as of June 2024. They include three geographical VKVs and four functional VKVs. The largest by personnel is the Eastern Command, which contains the vast majority of Pelinese ground, naval, aerial, rear area security, cyberwarfare, and ground-based space forces, while the smallest current command is ghe Western Command; the newest command to be established is the Strategic Operations Command, which was first activated in 2018.

Emblem	Command name	Established	Responsibility	Commander
Geographic commands
	Eastern Command	March 12, 1984 (1984-03-12)	Operational command of Pelinese military forces operating in Bailtem, Bareland, the eastern Rainbow Islands, the South Pacific Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Eastern Ocean, and associated islands and waterways, including forces stationed in mainland Pelinai.
	Western Command	March 12, 1984 (1984-03-12)	Operational command of Pelinese military forces stationed or deployed in Cordilia, Crabry, Keyli, the western Rainbow Islands, the Cordilian Sea, and associated islands and waterways.
	Space Command	September 1, 2007 (2007-09-01)	Operational command of military satellites, space surveillance systems, and other Pelinese military space-related systems, especially those not assigned to the Strategic Operations Command.
Functional commands
	Cyberwarfare Command	May 29, 2004 (2004-05-29)	Direction of forces pertaining to execution of and defense against cyberwarfare operations.
	Logistics command	November 6, 2015 (2015-11-06)	Direction of forces providing strategic-level logistics and force transport capability.
	Special Warfare Command	August 5, 1996 (1996-08-05)	Direction of forces used in unconventional and special warfare operations.	General Yuri Myechnovic, PWA
	Strategic Operations Command	June 11, 2018 (2018-06-11)	Direction of forces suited for long-range strategic reconnaissance and strike operations, including nuclear forces; strategic missile defense; communications and intelligence support to other VKVs.	General Iskandar Hizashi, RPAF

See also

• Structure of the Pelinese Ministry of Defense