I will be using a Vist diagram to explain this video. And apart from this email, which I found at the top left, I cannot find a creator. So if anybody does know, please let me know. This will be discussing the clone cause only. The navy and special forces are not included. But before we examine the GAR, we must first lay down the basics. First off, I will be using the term GAR, or ground army of the Republic, and the term clone army, interchangeably. This may not be technically correct. As there were non-clone officers in the GAR, but for the sake of this video, it will be the same. Next, I want to go through the basic structure of the clone army and its ranks. The ranks of the clone army are as follows. Clone troopers, who were the most numerous in the GAR, and had no input in command or battles, simply following orders, as good soldiers do. Corporals were promoted troopers who had some limited command ability. Sargent would lead a squad, including troopers, corporals and a sergeant, e.c. the 10 clones. These squads would be the backbone of the GAR. Second lieutenant and fourth lieutenant would be the lowest officer rank. They commanded platoons as well as assisting captains. Captains commanded companies. It should be mentioned here that the ranks from captain and up seems to be a rather flexible. As we see commanders in charge of companies and cause simultaneously, this can be seen with commander Cody, with the commanding officer for multiple unit types. Another infamous example of this is Captain Rex, who commands a brigade. The 5-0-1 is called a Legion, but for this video, I'll be using the term brigade and Legion interchangeably, as their sizes are comparable. Above the rank of captain is the major. There are a few named clone majors in both canon and legends, but since there are so few of them, we'll be ignoring the clone majors in this video. Above majors is a series of commander varieties. These include battalion commanders, such as Commander Wolf of the 104th, regimental commanders, brigade slice Legion commanders, and martial commanders. Most of the commander ranks should seem obvious, but martial commanders may not. They would lead cores alongside high Jedi generals. And to truly understand the GAR, you can think about it in terms of cores scattered throughout the galaxy. So a core consisted of 40,960 clones. This number includes all the previously mentioned ranks of Troopers, Corporals, Sgt. Second and Fall Attendants, captains, majors, and commanders. As well as multiple Jedi generals to lead the larger units within the cores, and a high Jedi general to lead the core itself alongside its martial commander. In the entire GAR, there was a total of 80 cores. Above the core is a Sector Army. Each Sector Army would contain 4 cores. There is a tier above Sector Army, which is the Systems Army. A Systems Army contained 2 Sector Armies, so on paper each Systems Army should contain 8 core. However, both the Sector and Systems Army were primarily used for administration. A whole Sector Army would never be engaged all at once or in a single place. Instead, they'd be spread out throughout the galaxy. We will first examine the First Systems Army under the command of Mace Windu. The First Systems Army or Systems Army Alpha contained around 300,000 clones. Because of the confusing nature of Sector Armies, we will be ignoring them completely and focusing on the cores. The known cores inside System Army Alpha include the free 27th Star Core under the command of martial commander Bly and Jedi General Aila Secura, the Knight for Salt Core under the command of Jedi General Luminara Unduly and martial commander Gry, which is so largely contained another core of In its ranks. This was the infamous 41st Elite Core, which is also commanded by Gry and Luminara Unduly. Other cores in System Army Alpha included the 21st Nova Core, otherwise known as the Galactic Marines, under the command of Kiyadi Mundi and martial commander Bikara. The 91st Recon Core under the command at various times of Mace Windu, command of Pons, Jedi General Adigalia, Jedi General Stas Ali and martial commander Nioh, we will also assume that the Flame Triple Core is within System Army Alpha, as it has been seen under the command of Kiyadi Mundi, who himself was within System Army Alpha, where he commanded the Galactic Marines. The Flame Triple Core was also commanded by Commander Jet at least once, during the second Battle of Genosis. That is the five known core out of eight within System Army Alpha. There's much as I would like to explain the subunits of these cores, there are simply too many unknowns, I'm not enough information about where the martial commanders had direct control over these subunits. For example, Commander Gry is the Commander of the Knight for Salt Core, but is also shown to have direct control over the 41st Elite Core, 41st Scout Battalion and Green Company. A core commander could not possibly command this many subunits simultaneously in battle, as this idea completely ignores the chain of command. Moving on to the first System Army, it was commanded by Jedi General everyone, Kenobi, and interestingly, martial commander Kodi. I say this is interesting because a clone commander is never shown in command of System Army Alpha, or even any other sector army. We can assume that because Kodi Nobiwana was so close, maybe Kodi went along with Kenobi as an advisor to the entire First System Army, as well as his own core. This also means that Kodi is the highest rank in clone we have ever seen in the Grand Army of the Republic. This brings up questions about the role of a martial commander. Were they solely supposed to command cores and in a few rare exceptions would assist in the higher command of units? Or was the rank more flexible? Many questions which we do not have any answers for. Speaking of everyone and Kodi, they also jointly commanded the 7th Sky Core, which has with all core contained 40,960 clones. This contained the 2.5 attack battalion, also confusingly commanded by Kodi and Obi-Wan. Something that often goes unnoticed is that technically, martial commander Kodi and Obi-Wan Kenobi are in command of the 501st Legion. And therefore on paper, Kodi has command over Anakin. Obviously in the field, this would never be the case. Because we only know of one of the core out of 8 in the entire First System Army, here are some well-known subunits. As mentioned, the fighting 501st under the command of Captain Rex and Jedi General Anakin Skywalker. The 1.4 attack battalion under the command of Commander Wolf and Jedi General Ploucou. And towards the end of the war, the 332nd Company under the command of Commander Rex. This was the subunit of a regiment that Rex was the commander of. Believe it or not, this unit is never named. Anakin split the 501st for a secret to have command, either though he totally didn't have to. Because she could have just been given an existing subunit of the 501st. So however this means that the 501st was split in half, or a smaller group was splinted off for Rex and her secret to command, we do not know. While we are talking about the 501st, there seems to be a lot of confusion about its size. For some reason, people often refer to it as a battalion, probably to make it more comparable with the 2-top attack battalion. But no, the 501st was a Legion, which in a GAR is a brigade size unit. It also doesn't help that in Embara Rex compares the 501st to a battalion. What? What happened? They're doing the right thing, Dogman. Because if this is how soldiers are rewarded for heroic actions, and one day every man is battalion they face a similar fate. Every man is battalion. What? We only know the components of systems Armin Alpha and the third systems army. Would you not know how subunits such as the Coruscant Guard fit into the GAR structure? But I think it is safe to assume that they are a separate unit, and not move in a systems army. The Coruscant Guard was commanded by Commanders Fox, Fire, Fawn and Stone. We do not know what a cause were within, the first sector army and the fifth to 20th sector armies. There was also the 87th Sentinel Corps and the 4th 16th Star Corps, which was under the command of Jedi General Karuk, and they are all of the known 9 Corps in the GAR, out of a total of 80. There are too many problems with this structure to list them all, so instead I'm going to suggest some minor fixes that would drastically improve the structure of the GAR. First, get rid of the sector and systems armies. I know 80 individual corps might seem like a lot of moving parts, but when compared to the sides of the galaxy they were fighting in, I don't see why the Republic couldn't manage it next, do not have flexibility with what ranks commanded what units. Always have a martial commander in charge of a corps, and follow the rank structure downwards, laid out earlier in this video. In the case of the 501st it would have been much simpler to promote Rex to brigade commander, because even though in this show you were second in Commander Skywalker, on paper he was not. Of course I haven't mentioned how the 3rd system's army does not contain sector armies, and therefore is unclear what armies in night sky corps, fire first Legion and one in fourth battalion belong to, and they are just under direct control of Obi-Wan and Cody. Or is there a no martial commander in charge of the army above the 7th sky corps? Is that Commander Cody? Awesome other unknown martial commander? If it was, then Cody would be in charge of someone who was in charge of Cody. This is ignoring all the other subunits that we have no idea about. Or the fact that this diagram assumes that the Clone Army is at a strength of 3.2 million clones. Assuming the math of 10 systems armies being at full strength is correct, but the ultimate problem here is that no one at Lucasfilm ever sat down and decided to write out an entire new fictitious army. So we'll have to work around the limitations we've been given.