Marleyan Military

The Marleyan Military, is the combined armed forces of Marley, consisting primarily of the Marleyan Army, Marleyan Navy, and Marleyan Air Corps, their real strength comes in the form of their extensive intelligence agency - the Public Security Authorities - and their Warrior Unit who have the power of the Titans.

## General Structure

### Military service

Marley practices conscription in the conquered lands of its empire, although its own citizens are presently exempted from military service. Due to that, its rank and file is made up of various ethnicities, with the Eldian unit being the most visible among them. For other examples, Onyankopon and Yelena were conscripted into the navy after their home countries were conquered by Marley. Although few and far between, several women are also present in combat service, notable among them is Pieck Finger

In the year 854, Magath pushes for the reintroduction of conscription for ethnic Marleyans in order to meet the anticipated threats from Paradis Island and other advanced powers of the world.

## Army

The **Marleyan Army** possesses a conventional armament that is largely similar to other world powers in appearance, but is noted to be more obsolete, especially when compared to the more modern firearms possesed by even the isolated Eldian Kaiserreich. For small-arms weaponry, bolt action rifles and stick grenades are the standard-issued weapons of Marleyan infantrymen, with two models of rifle in service. Warchief Zeke Yeager also carries a carbine rifle into battle, suggesting that automatic small-arms are used at least by Marley's elite Airborne Unit. Soldiers are primarily transported by steam-powered trains, but those who garrison inside home territory are also transported by trucks.*[citation needed]*

The use of Titans is central to the army's doctrine. Besides having the Warrior Unit as a strategical deterrent, Marley also has a long-standing strategy of converting its Eldian population into pure Titans to bolster its military strength. In ancient times, pure Titans were set loose by the Eldian Empire an enemy force en masse, as they are unable to follow complex commands except from the Founding Titan. Marley's tactic remains much unchanged from Eldia's in the modern era, except that the Titans can now be airdropped by airships.

Other than strategic value, inheritors of the Nine Titans also fulfill the tactical role comparable to tanks on the field. For example, Porco Galliard was tasked to destroy a machine gun nest which was otherwise untouchable by infantry in the battle against Fort Slava. A more literal example is Pieck, who possesses four machine guns turrets strapped to the armor on her Titan's back, a configuration that proved highly effective in clearing the Allies' trench system. Otherwise, Marleyan troops practice conventional tactics such as trench warfare, frontal human wave assault, and rudimentary anti-armor techniques such as the use of bundle stick grenades.

However, due to their heavy reliance on the power of the Titans, the Marleyan army has neglected development and advancement of conventional armaments. As a result, its forces were gradually outclassed by the Mid-East Allied Forces and other nations of the world, who pushed their efforts into military development in order to strike a balance with Marley's Titans. The situation has become so dire that then Commander Magath pessimistically stated that the army will soon stand little chance against the advanced aircraft technology being developed by its enemies.

The army has little regard for proper conducts of war. For example, Magath intentionally allowed Warrior candidate Gabi Braun to attack an enemy pillbox in plainclothes, even though he was aware that this would be a violation of international law if anyone remained alive to report it.

### Structure

The Marleyan army boosted an average active strength of one million men organized into 50 divisions of 20,000 strong. With an auxillary division of another 20,000 men attatched to each. The Armies were named based off the regions they were stationed, and were responsible for actions within that region. Despite it's warmongering, in peacetime, most of the armies were focused on internal affairs, often acting as an extension of the police force in those regions. Excursions into enemy territory are primarily handled by Assault Armies, which are formed out of the large reserve pool of Eldians and conquered ethnicites. In all, Marley can summon approximately 90,000,000 men for combat. One of the few advantages they had over the Eldische Heer during the Second Great Titan War.

#### Active Armies

* 1st Western Army
* 2nd Balan Army
* 3rd Syðra Army
* 4th Western Army
* 5th Northern Army
* 6th Central Army
* 7th Eastern Army
* 8th Southern Army
* 9th Homeland Army
* 10th Southern Army
* 11th Assault Army

## Navy

The **Marley navy** (マーレ海軍 *Māre Kaigun*?) is outdated and underdeveloped, which leads to devastating losses against the state-of-the-art naval warships deployed by the Allies during the Marley Mid-East War, with it being completely crippled during the Raid on Liberio and Attack on Axis. During the Marley Mid-East War, it only manages to control the sea at the cost of half of its fleet after four years of fighting. The failure of the navy was attributed by Magath as one of the causes leading to Marley's Pyrrhic "victory." During the Second Great Titan War, it would be completely devastated by Eldia's aircraft carriers and the overall superiority of the smaller but more advanced, efficient, and rapidly increasing Eldian Kriegsmarine.

Marley has a variety of different warships in its navy, such as battleships, destroyers, ironclads, survey ships or steamboats.

The navy sent 32 ships including a number of destroyers to the coast of Paradis Island in the course of three years after the Battle of Shiganshina District. The purpose was to survey the area for the invasion of the island. All ships were lost to the Survey Corps and a Group of Marleyan dissidents - Consecutively, the latter group lured them in by sending out a fake distress call, allowing the Attack Titan or the Colossus Titan to ambush the vessels. Most members of the ship crews were captured. Over time, the survivors' hostility became smoothed out. Some would even cooperate with the Survey Corps and become technical specialists.

Relations between the army and the navy are poor. For example, Udo scolds it for being a "cesspool of incompetence." When Magath blames it for damaging Marley's reputation as the victor of war in a post-battle meeting with the general, a naval officer defends his service branch. Ironically, the conservative Army and Navy tend to pose a unified front against the politically progressive Warrior Unit and Air Corps.

During the course of the battle, a Marleyan naval fleet arrives at a port near Liberio, in order to reinforce the Marleyan position. However, Armin Arlert is waiting for them and proceeds to transform into his Colossus Titan form, obliterating the Marleyan Central Fleet and their primary port of Liberio - where the ships were docking. Meanwhile, the Western Fleet is crippled during the Attack on Axis, in which a combined force consisting of the Eldian Carriers *Graf Zeppelin* and *Graf Strasser,* accompanied by the Hizurian Kido Butai - a force of carriers consisting of the *Akagi, Kaga, Hiryuu, Soryuu, Shokaku* and *Zuikaku* - bombed the Marleyan Western Fleet, stationed at the Axis Archipelago near Southern Marley.

### Structure

The navy has a total of 21 battleships among three fleets. With each fleet having 7 battleships, 14 heavy cruisers, 21 light cruisers, and 28 destroyers. However, due to the spread out nature of the Marleyan Empire, an enemy could rarely encounter the full power of a Marleyan Naval Fleet. Mostly encountering singular squadrons or battlegroups. A battlegroup usually consists of 1 battleship, 2 heavy cruisers, 3 light cruisers, and 4 destroyers. Later, it was changed to where some battlegroups might have 1 carrier, 1 battleship, 2 heavy cruisers, 3 light cruisers, and 4 destroyers.

The Marleyan Scout Fleet also has an additional 11 light cruisers and 22 destroyers, dedicated to watching Paradis.