Royal Armed Forces of Nasphilitae (Pacifica)
| Royal Armed Forces of Nasphilitae | |
|---|---|
| Motto | "Venture Fors Per Visus et Dolus" |
| Founded | 1737. |
| Current form | 1958. |
| Service branches | |
| Headquarters | Ft Masontown, Nasphilitae |
| Leadership | |
| Chief of Command | Dawson Ernst |
| Grand General | David Atkinsons |
| Manpower | |
| Military age | 22-25 |
| Conscription | Limited Compulsory |
| Active personnel | 56,000 |
| Reserve personnel | 217,750 |
| Expenditures | |
| Budget | $275-325.82 billion (speculation) |
| Percent of GDP | 2.5% (budget spending included only) |
| Industry | |
| Domestic suppliers | FTMST Armoury |
| Related articles | |
| History | Military History of Nasphilitae |
The Royal Armed Forces of Nasphilitae are the military forces of the Grand Duchy of Nasphilitae. It consists of three official service branches, which serves as the officer and commanding personnel for five additional structures termed "auxilliary service branches". All eight branches are uniformed services of Nasphilitae, alongside its law enforcement and border guard, which are not part of the military forces. Each of the eight branches are assigned separate roles and duties, while only the three official service branches are assigned a specific domain. The Land Army is tasked with operations in terrestrial, amphibious and coastline domain. The Maritime forces are tasked with operations in the littoral and oceanic maritime. The Airforce are tasked with operations primarily in the air, and providing tactical & strategic aid to the Land Army and Maritime branch forces. Of the auxilliary branches, each has their tasks more specified. They include: Rapid Reaction Forces (RRF), Disaster Relief Dispatchment Forces (DRDF), The Militia forces, Unit Eight of the AID, and AID Department Eight of AIDs Unit Nine.
Its inception in the current form dates back to 1958., upon the introduction of a bill that will later (1962., 1964.) become fully enacted titled "Ordinance on Peerage Monopoly on Arms". Having been found in the midst of a Civil War against the Military Junta (1956-1962 de facto, 1956-1964 de jure), its role is atypical from among militaries of the world, though is domestically a symbol of guaranteed continued ontological security, freedom and rule of law. Components and traditions date back earliest to The Buccaneer Wars (1737-1771/1778), making Maritime service branch the oldest. This is followed by the Land Army orces whose initial structure was introduced as a "standing Militia" by Queen Dorothy Atkinsons in 1862. Auxilliary AID branch, specifically AID Unit Eight, was formed in 1904., while AID Department Eight was subject to the reformation of AID Unit Nine during 1982-1985. Despite Airforce de facto existing since 1928., it wouldn't be formulated until 1958s aforementioned Ordinance, from which the Militia was also restructured into its present form. Finally, the RRF dates back to 1959. as a volunteer Corps, becoming its own service branch alongside the DRDF (formerly "NCO, medical & engineering Corps") in 2020.
Having in mind its history elaborates the unique and convoluted regulations and structure of the RAF. Its mandatory conscription is limited to members of the high Peer and low Earl nobility for both sexes lasting three years. This restrictive membership and bulk of the finances being non-budgetary sourced leads to its soldiers being the most expensive units by spending per capita in the South Pacific. While the auxilliary service branches are open to all citizens of Nasphilitae, similar self-finance customs are traditionally replicated as well.
Its "Principles of War" and "Code of Conduct", as well as detailed duties, orders of mobilisation, and Grand National Strategy are outlined in the Ordinance. Military strategy is enacted by each Grand Duke, Head of State and Chief of Command upon inauguration in consultation with their HM Cabinet. Likewise, the military doctrine is formed by the Chief of Command and their Deputy Head of the HM Cabinet, the Grand General and Chief of Staff. "Theatre operational strategy" is formulated and implemented by each branches respctive Commanding Officer, while their execution (termed "Military tactics") are enacted by the respective Officer Corpus. The final noteworthy abnormality is that all equipment must be sourced from the same domestic manufacturer & supplier firms, in order to harmonise the financial investment by all personnel. From amongst firms, primacy is enjoyed by FTMST Armoury, while others participate on an open auction contractual basis.
Ordinance on Peerage Monopoly on Arms
The Ordinance on Peerage Monopoly on Arms (1958) is a constitutional act within the legal framework of Nasphilitae. Structurally, it is composed of eight "Articles" (modern terminology equivalence to "Chapter") by topic covered. Its imperative clauses, composed of a mandative subjunctive framework with jussive statements, are found only in the First Article. In it, The National Parliament is mandated to recognise only the RAF as a legitimate military force of Nasphilitae, while the RAF is obligated with "the penultimate duty to restore, preserve, guard, and defend, the legitimate institutional order, as it is developed upon by the National Parliament". Contents of Article I were transferred from earlier "Mutual Security Contracts" between the nobility and the P3 Coalition from 1953.
Remaining seven Articles are written in an affidavit tone, utilising gnomic aspect, tense and mood, which is to say that it contains statements of "the way things are", in spite of being transformative legislation. It proceeds to define "principles of war", featuring a very clairvoyant influence of natural law, justice and naturalist ethics. A major innovation was its expansive definition of warfare relative to the time in which it was created, including within it "more than confrontation between groups of human bodies, wherein the life of one is threatened by the other", making it an early adaptation of the hybrid warfare concept. As it was created in the context of a civil war, it also features an innovative understanding of security dilemmas as existing on four levels, covered in Articles 4-6 which are the Code of Conduct.
A recursion back into "operational manifestation" is thematic in the final two Articles, which confine and outline specific military grand strategy termed "Grand National Strategy". It concludes by stating Four Orders of mobilisation that (omitted: ought to) exist, last order of which can be seen as either solving or negating the contractual nature of Article One.
Principles of War
The Principles of War (Articles 2-3) initiates by introducing eight themes as statements of fact or definition. They're very indicative of Nasphiliti legal philosophy, as the statements are later observed as lex generalis, with implications from each having specific ethics and standards drawn later on in the Ordinance. However, a unique feature is present in the form that it begins by defining core human behaviour, which is infamously absent in all other statutory legislation.
1. Vitalism: "Humans seek to prolong their existence." 2. Solidarity: "Human groups seek to secure their groups resources at the non-essential but regular expense of non-members." 3. Perseverance:' "Groups which commit to persistent pursuit of their survival remain resolute as long as the illusion of a final goal is seen as attainable, necessary or justifiable." 4. Organisation: "Groups with clear division of tasks, strong sense of collective equality, and clear command chains, defeat groups in which all members perform all tasks." 5. Legitimacy: "Groups which have faced defeat have been defeated in their ideal goals as well as their operational conduct." 6. Adaptability: "All groups which seek victory emulate already existing victorious groups, most importantly, a defeated group may either emulate their enemy or face extinction." 7. Restraint: "Human groups seek ways to compete for resources in manners which minimise vital sacrifice." 8. Reciprocity: "Human groups interact in equivalence when they are equally prepared, so long as both or all groups interact in the same manner."
Principles of Perseverance, Legitimacy and Adaptability have implications which were novel at the time. Namely, Perseverance insists that all final goals are illusions, which are prerequisite to be seen as possible or tangible for success-Admitting that the basis of morale is socially constructive. Legitimacy does not rely on anything further than final resolutions, allowing for cultural moral relativity by omitting them as a legitimating factor. However, Adaptability negates that all values are omitted, instead warning of extinction if a victorious enemy's ideals and operations aren't emulated by the defeated.
While very clearly naturalist, it maintains an oddly optimistic presupposition, by suggesting that victory is progress of (some) values. Its viewpoint falls "between or outside" of either Realism (states and sovereignty are completely disregarded) or Liberal Institutionalism (institutions rely entirely on reciprocation). This is reflective of Nasphilitaes foreign policy, which themselves are implemented through Nasphilitaes foreign relations. The fact that policy takes precedence over relations, and what this is reflective of, is covered below in the Grand National Strategy section.
Code of Conduct
Code of Conduct reads as a list of definitions. Key ones need to be cited, as their contents will constantly be referenced into later elaborations;
"Conflict is two or more opposing wills struggling to achieve their manifestation. War is a conflict of two or more collectives seeking to secure their vision of a humanity's unified will. Warfare is organised, mutually observant, restrained and multi-faceted war, usually but not exclusively achievable by two or more countries, due to the high level of organisation which state structures provide. Security is the self-conviction that a lack of threat is imminent, to individuals, groups, collectives, and or countries. Ontological insecurity is the state of a group, collective, and or country which its members, groups, or collectives are in internal war. Internal strife which transcends any collection of human bodies is self-sabotaging. Duty of the military is to assure lack of internal strife, provide harmony, and organisation command, which operates security from within, as well as guard that security from ever-present external threats. Role of the military is to break any opposing will in warfare. Breaking opposing will requires more than victory of physical confrontations. Victory is the state in which the role is achieved by minimal or without physical confrontation. Triumph is to achieve the role by reliance on physical confrontation. All triumphs are temporary. All victories are final. Vigilance is the penultimate virtue of a soldier. Deception is the determining factor by which vigilance is tested."
Context:
This expansion of domain can and does have derived principles from, though it was formed in the context of the RAF being at a severe disadvantage on all conventional levels. Non-conventional means of securing victory was given precedence out of necessity rather than choice. Concealment and deception were almost the sole ways in which warfare was conducted by both sides until 1959., remaining key approaches until 1961. It would remain unknown until 1982., which condition was changed in 1961. The first six months of 1961. saw nearly no confrontation, with restraint observable by both sides. From mid 1961. to the end of 1962., mutually inflicted casualties exceeded all casualties in the prior 10 years of conflict. This period is now known as "Spring of Blood".
After the Supreme Court ruling in "General public v the AID 1982." and subsequent declassification, Cases 3, 7 and 11 revealed that the AID was "less than coherent, far from uniform, in its support" but that it had "remained resolute in maintaining peace by non-intervention among all of its operatives". Neither the RAF nor the Junta were made aware that the AID had been giving misinformation to both sides until 1961. The 6-month ceasefire was proliferation of Unit Nines "Sector Eight" (contemporary Department Eight) as infiltration of Unit Nines (formerly) non-departmentalised structure. Importantly, prior to "Spring of Blood", both the RAF and the Junta had legalised post-war amnesty and immunity to AID Unit Nine operatives, in return for full information regarding one another.
Grand National Strategy ("Inferred Tripwire")
International relations theory in Nasphilitae is uniform in a conviction termed as "Pax Mercatoriae" (Aus. "Mercantile Peace"), which maintains that countries will follow the Principles of Restraint and Reciprocity, only in conditions which the framework mentioned in the Principle of Restraint(competition for resources) cost-benefit analysis significantly overwhelms any potential spoils of war. However, this conviction explicitly rejects the notion of a "homo economicus" or rational decision-making, it instead calls on essentialism, placating net gain in the form of wealth over net gain in the form of exploitation. Disputes arise in the form of pro-activity which Nasphilitae itself should conduct as to attain wealth and security. The choice of passive or active participation is the distinguishing factor between the "Old Nasphiliti School of International Relations" (main contemporary advocate: Candice Cohen) and "New Nasphiliti School of International Relations" (main contemporary advocate: Adrianna Rolston) which advocate for passive and pro-action, respectively.
Call-back to the Code of Conducts definition of a military's role is used as an answer to WHY. Why is a military exists is to fulfil its duties, by performing its role, through tasks specified on multiple domains, commands, and time. Domains are physical (air, maritime, terrestrial) and socio-psycho-cultural realms in which tasks are done, each requesting their realm-arising specifics be met accordingly. Commands are domain-inbound chains of accountability and subordination which provide organisational clarity. Passage of time is heavily emphasised, wherein "military strategy" is stated as being subject to change codified in each Grand Dukes tenures respective Collective Security Documents.
The CSDs (omitted:must) define broad national objectives in accordance to capabilities, time, and following "previously defined goals, of maximising the role of the military". Military strategy is "defined manner in which the military alone contributes to the outlined national objectives, without reliance on other sectors resources". Military doctrine further details HOW the military strategy is to be achieved, given the capabilities of all other actors. "Theatre Operational Strategy" are ad hoc crucial goals in war and warfare which must be attained to achieve victory. Military tactics are the applications of these goals tasked with achieving triumphs over adversarial positions.
"Inferred Tripwire"
The Grand National Strategy introduces a concept termed "Inference", standing in contrast to both Deterrence and Compellence theories. Inference pivots that "Information regarding all other actors be actively gathered and analysed without any limitation" while "maintaining a coercive posture of lesser or lower image than ones capabilities are" as to "convince potential adversaries into undertaking tripwired action." Limitless gathering of information would be regulated both externally and internally by the aforementioned trial of "General public v the AID (1982.)" Case 17. It extensively, in detail, regulated distinction between "prohibited" and "unethical but not illegal" use of psychochemicals and pharmaceuticals in law enforcement and warfare, more specifically and usually in interrogation.
Four Orders of Mobilisation
Four orders of mobilisation are legalised, each following the same procedure, with a mandatory 2 month separation from each Orders enactment to the sequential one. Orders of mobilisation must be initiated by either the Chief of Command (Head of State) or Chief of Staff (Grand General) by proposing it to the Head of Government; Which may accept or discard it by discretion upon consultation with their Cabinet. If accepted, a qualified majority in The National Parliament with active approval(Quorum of attendance is required) is needed for its enactment. Circularity is explicit to Article One of the Principles of Warfare's contract between the RAF and the Parliament.
The First Order of Mobilisation: Mobilises all active and reserve personnel of the RAF from age 18 to age 45.
Second Order of Mobilisation: Mobilises all RAF personnel from the age of 14 to the age of 70; Allows all civilians to volunteer for conscription.
Third Order of Mobilisation: All citizens are obligated to undergo conscription and mobilise, from age 21 to age 55.
Fourth Order of Mobilisation: "Stage of Existential Emergency" is declared by government in continuation; Legalises the weaponisation of all civilians and allowing all means of triumph for the sake of preventing extinction.
The Ordinance concludes by "A priori nullification of any capitulation declared by any official in the name of Nasphilitae under any circumstances to be seen as legitimate or legal". In combination with the Fourth Order, it implies that "capitulation" is understood as biological extinction or a state of total war. However, in the aftermath of the Great War, this was not viewed with controversy.
Structure and Order of Precedence
Nasphilitaes military structure is mechanical, in the sense that it is systemised in accordance to how all components concatenate together as to achieve a goal. This is done by separating terms which refer to operational specialisation of its personnel (platoons, liners, wings) from those of mixed MOS units (battalion, serial, flock) and those which formulate larger units of the first mentioned (company, task force, flight). Brigades infer two domain branch compositions, Divisions include all three, while Special Operation Brigadeers refer to specific SOF units under direct command of the fielded Chief of Command.
Two simultaneous command chain hierarchies are utilised. The Commanding Officer Corpus is composed of either the senior "strategic command officers" (top-down, initiate, order must be broad) or the junior "operational command officers" (bottom-up, perform, must only conduct orders deemed tactically viable). This is termed as "Order of Precedence".
Commanding officer corpus
Small units are subordinate to their direct command. Platoons, liners, and wings are bound only to their respective Seargent, Captain, or Pilot. Formulated units (company, task force, flight) are bound to their operational commanding officers (Junior Lieutenant, Junior Admiral, Junior Marshal).
Inter-domain compositions include a group of operational commanding officers subordinate to their senior strategic command officers. Likewise, these include Senior Lieutenants, Admirals, and Marshals. Brigades are commanded by a Major General or Major Admiral, whereas Divisions must be commanded only by the Major Marshal.
Units of cross-domain branch personnel are subordinate to Grand Majors, as they are usually comprised of "regular" SOF personnel, from whom self-reliant full efficiency is prerequisite.
All Majors answer to and relay from the Chief of Staff, also officially titled the Grand General. Importantly, the Grand General does not partake in direct combat, unlike the Chief of Command. The latter operates both the HQ staff(almost exclusively civilian) and is directly involved by commanding a "Special Operation Brigadeer".
Military strategy and doctrine
As to materialise "Inferred Tripwire" of the National Grand Strategy, the Military Strategy utilises patient screening in any mission. A series of "Salami Attacks" are performed with the goal of gathering all information that can be processed by the human mind. This phase is notoriously long, after which all activities seemingly cease for analysis, which is deadlined by 30 days from the conclusion of information gathering. A strike is chosen which must: target the most vulnerable attack surface, of critically existential importance to the adversary, maximising the breaking of morale (or "will"), while being cost-effective.
Necessarily, all doctrines have two distinct attributes. There are 3-5 "strikes" which must be fully prepared and conductive. This minimises possible errors or failures while maintaining low investment. More importantly, this determines that conscription must prepare all personnel to "the limits of human bodies and minds".
Speculatively, the "limits" have been or are known. Confirmatively, this requires all personnel to serve their middle 18 months as: "Long and short distance, ranger-scouting, reconnaissance ad amphibious, sniper-rifled, area controllers". Lastly and reasonably assumed, though unproven, is that all personnel are limit-tested by exposure to pharmaceuticals. Evidently, active personnel consume "performance enhancement supplement".
Service branches
Official service branches
Land army forces
Maritime forces
Airforce
Auxilliary service branches
RRF and DRDF
AID Unit Eight
AID Department Eight