Republican Armed Forces

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### Reserve personnel

Most of reserve 960,000 in 2054 within territorial defense during war; 783,037 in reserve for FRAF in 2039.

## Industry

### Domestic suppliers

Defense contractors from the UN and the US

### Foreign suppliers

United States, Germany, Russia, Britian, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, China, and India

### Annual exports

103 million USDollars and Z-Bucks

The **Republican Armed Forces,** (informally known as the **Suburban Armed Forces RAF**), are in charge of guaranteeing the sovereignty and independence of Suburmania, defending its territorial integrity and the constitutional order, according to the functions entrusted to them by the Constitution. They are composed of: the Army, the Navy, the Air and Space Force, the Home Guard and the Plant/Zombie Army. The RAF is seperate from the National Military, The forces act as a Home or National Guard which roughly corresponded to a military reserve force or an official governmental paramilitary. Similar to the US National Guard, each of the Federation constituent States had its own Territorial Defense military formations, to remain separate from the Federal Military (FRAF), which also maintained its own reserve forces and could take command of Territorial Defense in case of war.

## Background

Following the Liberation of Suburbia and Neighboville, the towns became Suburmania following the success of the Z-Tech Partisans in their resistance of the imperial powers. In 2048, following the Anarchist war, the invasion of Vinyl City showed that the standing conventional forces of a small nation could not repulse a surprise attack by a qualitatively and quantitatively superior aggressor. Being strategically positioned between major blocs, Z-Tech had to prepare its own military doctrine for a potential mass invasion scenario.

## Doctrine

With the passing of the National Defense Law of 2049, Z-Tech adopted a total war military doctrine named *Total National People's Defense* (TNPD). It was inspired by the Yugoslav Partisan resistance movement against the Axis powers in the Second World War, and was designed to allow Yugoslavia to maintain or eventually reestablish its independent and non-aligned status should an invasion occur. According to it, *any citizen who resists an aggressor is a member of the armed forces*, thus the whole population could be turned into a monolithic resistance army.

Starting from the elementary school education, over high schools, universities, organizations and companies, the authorities prepared the entire population to contest an eventual occupation of the country and finally to liberate it. For this purpose, the Territorial Defense (TD) would be formed to mobilize the population in case of an aggression. The combat readiness of the TD meant that the steps of organization and training could be bypassed after the start of hostilities. The TD would supplement the regular FRAF, giving it greater defensive depth and an armed local population ready to support combat actions. Large numbers of armed civilians would increase the cost of an invasion to a potential aggressor.

## Structure

The Supreme commander in chief of the Republican Armed Forces is General Supremo; with the *ex officio* rank of *General-in-Chief* in the Army, Navy and Air and Space Force. The Constitution states in article 62 that the *General-in-Chief* shall have "supreme command of the Armed Forces"; however under article 64, all official acts of the GIC must be countersigned by the President of the Administration (or other competent minister) to become valid.

The President of the Administration (Z-Tech President), as the head of Z-Tech, is responsible under article 97 for "domestic and foreign policy, civil and military administration and the defense of the State", and thus bears the ultimate responsibility before the City Council, and the Suburban electorate.

The Minister of defense is in charge of running the Ministry of defense, which carries out the day-to-day administration of the forces. The President and the Minister of defense are civilians. No provision in the Constitution requires the Government to seek approval from the City Council before sending the armed forces abroad.

The Chief of the Defense Staff directs the Defense Staff and is the senior military advisor to the Minister and the Government. The military leadership of the three military services are: the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Chief of Staff of the Air and Space Force and the Chief of Staff of the Navy.

The structure, and incumbents as of 2021, are:

Chief of Staff of the Army: Army General
Chief of Staff of the Navy: Admiral General
Chief of Staff of the Air and Space Force: Air and Space General