American Republican Army

"There will never be peace in America until the foreign, oppressive Consortium and Technical presence is removed, leaving all the American people as a free and sovereign unit in charge of their own destinies." -- ARA Founder Timothy O'Donovan
The American Republican Army was founded in SY 140, a year after the Solar War, in direct response to the Emergency Powers Directive. The EPD was an expansion of the Earth Prosperity Initiative that dissolved the Supreme Soviet, US Congress, and the Communist Party of China, federalizing all territory on Earth under the direct control of the Consortium World Congress at Geneva, Switzerland. 
While much of the former Federal government complied and became deputized by Geneva alongside occupying Technocracy and CONPOL troops, a strong minority of American civil servants and citizens rejected the EPD. A "Provisional Government of the United States" was formed at Philadelphia. CONPOL troops were sent to arrest the participants, which led to the "Rising of '36", and was the first major engagement of the struggle. The Provisional Government's presence was strongest in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York while the ARA pursued a bloody guerilla war for the next thirty years and widely utilized terror tactics against both occupying forces and American collaborators. 
In SY 170, the remainder of the Federal government -- functioning as a direct puppet of Geneva -- was dissolved and the American flag was outlawed. The ARA would remain active in the former United States, both abroad and on the mainland, until SY 215 when North America capitulated to the Anthroperium.
== Ideology ==
The American Republican Army rejected the Emergency Powers Directive as illegitimate and considered the Consortium a failed experiment. They aimed to re-establish the United States as it existed in SY 139 and laid claim to all 79 of it's former states. It had a policy of no compromise, no negotiation, and no prisoners. They were nationalist, anti-imperialist, and pro-democracy. They rejected both Soviet orthodox Marxist-Leninism and Chinese Maoism, but embraced a loose idea of worker's democracy, syndicalism, and trade unionism.
== Tactics ==
ARA forces widely utilized guerilla warfare, sabotage, subterfuge, ambushes, raids, and even terrorism to achieve their goals. They were known to disrupt public utilities and communications even if it affected the general public in order to achieve goals. 
They were never able to establish coherent supply lines outside of New England and Pennsylvania, and relied heavily on both the local population and raids to fund their operations outside of those areas.
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Category:Twilight Era