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During the [['97 Rising]], forces on both sides were still largely using mid-19th century artillery pieces, and no pieces with {{wp|Hydraulic recoil mechanism|hydro-pneumatic short recoil systems}} would enter standard usage until after the Rising. Accordingly, the interwar Royal and Imperial Army had almost no experience with modern warfare centered around heavy artillery and had to relearn tactics and basic military engineering from foreign experts. Since the last military experience had lacked the heavy artillery that lead to trench warfare, the Royal and Imperial Army had almost no experience with armor to speak of as of 1920 and no armored vehicles in service. Urcea began to license early tanks from [[Burgundie]] beginning in [[1922]], but many of these were already antiquated by the time a large number had been amassed, making them largely only suitable for training and doctrinal developments. | During the [['97 Rising]], forces on both sides were still largely using mid-19th century artillery pieces, and no pieces with {{wp|Hydraulic recoil mechanism|hydro-pneumatic short recoil systems}} would enter standard usage until after the Rising. Accordingly, the interwar Royal and Imperial Army had almost no experience with modern warfare centered around heavy artillery and had to relearn tactics and basic military engineering from foreign experts. Since the last military experience had lacked the heavy artillery that lead to trench warfare, the Royal and Imperial Army had almost no experience with armor to speak of as of 1920 and no armored vehicles in service. Urcea began to license early tanks from [[Burgundie]] beginning in [[1922]], but many of these were already antiquated by the time a large number had been amassed, making them largely only suitable for training and doctrinal developments. | ||
===Yonderian revolution=== | |||
By [[1923]], it was clear to the new experts of the Imperial War College that the Royal and Imperial Army was, in the words of Yonderian general XX d'XX, "totally unsuited for modern warfare...completely unable to implement or execute combined arms tactics", not only including the various armored forces but incorporating any element of the [[Royal Air Force (Urcea)|Royal Air Fleet]] in either a combat or logistics capacity. Between 1923 and 1926, from his position at the War College, XX d'XX gained increasing influence and authority over the armed forces, competing with and eventually surpassing the other foreign experts brought in to help revitalize the army. Initially, d'XX held inlfuence in an unofficial capacity, finally receiving official authority in [[1926]]. Being named "[[Ministry of the Armed Services (Urcea)|Deputy Lord Marshal]] for the Renovation of His Most Christian Majesty's Forces", XX d'XX would institute major reforms and implement doctrinal changes between 1926 and 1930, when he returned to [[Yonderre]]. For his role in this effort, d'XX has sometimes been called the "father of the modern Royal and Imperial Army." | |||
===The "new army"=== | |||
Between 1923 and 1930, the Royal and Imperial Army was transformed from a fundamentally 19th century force into a rudimentary 20th century force that would be well positioned to learn and develop throughout the earliest years of the [[Second Great War]]. | |||
Doctrinal developments would proceed apace during the late 1920s. | |||
Besides doctrinal developments, new equipment would come into common use throughout the armed forces. Despite a push for the adoption of a {{wp|self-loading rifle}}, the dependable [[SR-9]] was modified for modern warfare by shortening it significantly; the resulting SR-9C carbine entered standard use in the Army by 1929. The [[SAV-5]], the first ever Urcean domestically manufactured tank, would enter service beginning in [[1930]] following doctrine-based procurement competitions held in [[1929]]. Although in some ways outdated by the time the [[Second Great War]] began, the SAV-5 would perform dependably throughout the early conflict. | |||
==Imperial reign of the de Welutas== | ==Imperial reign of the de Welutas== | ||