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de Caryale returned to [[Yonderre]] in September of 1930 where he was met with a promotion to Major General and an assignment with the [[General Staff (Yonderre)|General Staff]] of the [[Yonderian Defence Force]]. de Caryale was entasked with coming up with ways to apply his experiences from [[Urcea]] and the reforms he introduced to the [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal and Imperial Army]] to the [[Yonderian Defence Force]] which in many respects found itself in a rather similar situation to that of the Royal and Imperial Army a decade prior. Having maintained strict neutrality in the [[First Great War]] and undergone considerable cutbacks in the 1910s and early 1920s due to the [[Great Depression]], the [[Yonderian Defence Force]], much like the Royal and Imperial Army, found itself with an aging officer corps and stagnant military thinking. As such, de Caryale set about attempting to implement many of the reforms he had carried out as [[Ministry of the Armed Services (Urcea)|Deputy Lord Marshal]] in [[Urcea]], although a lack of willingness to carry out quite as subtantial reforms within the higher echelons of the [[Yonderian Defence Force]] severely limitted the actual effectiveness of the changes. Limited by his lack of direct power in the [[Yonderian Defence Force]], de Caryale regardless continued pressing for changes to be made, and was made Chief of the Armoured Forces in 1932. | de Caryale returned to [[Yonderre]] in September of 1930 where he was met with a promotion to Major General and an assignment with the [[General Staff (Yonderre)|General Staff]] of the [[Yonderian Defence Force]]. de Caryale was entasked with coming up with ways to apply his experiences from [[Urcea]] and the reforms he introduced to the [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal and Imperial Army]] to the [[Yonderian Defence Force]] which in many respects found itself in a rather similar situation to that of the Royal and Imperial Army a decade prior. Having maintained strict neutrality in the [[First Great War]] and undergone considerable cutbacks in the 1910s and early 1920s due to the [[Great Depression]], the [[Yonderian Defence Force]], much like the Royal and Imperial Army, found itself with an aging officer corps and stagnant military thinking. As such, de Caryale set about attempting to implement many of the reforms he had carried out as [[Ministry of the Armed Services (Urcea)|Deputy Lord Marshal]] in [[Urcea]], although a lack of willingness to carry out quite as subtantial reforms within the higher echelons of the [[Yonderian Defence Force]] severely limitted the actual effectiveness of the changes. Limited by his lack of direct power in the [[Yonderian Defence Force]], de Caryale regardless continued pressing for changes to be made, and was made Chief of the Armoured Forces in 1932. | ||
With the retirement of [[Chief of Defence (Yonderre)|Chief of Defence]] [[Henry d'Erlinne]] and subsequent promotion of [[Nestor d'Argonne]] to [[Chief of Defence (Yonderre)|Chief of Defence]], de Caryale became Chief of the [[General Staff (Yonderre)|General Staff]] in 1933 aged 43, the youngest man ever to have held the title at the time. Now effectively the third-most powerful man in the [[Yonderian Defence Force]] behind the [[Chief of Defence (Yonderre)|Chief of Defence]] and the [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]], de Caryale was able to more effectively force his reforms into being; de Caryale started the long process of reforming Yonderre's cavalry forces, retraining them as motorized and armoured forces when allowed by | With the retirement of [[Chief of Defence (Yonderre)|Chief of Defence]] [[Henry d'Erlinne]] and subsequent promotion of [[Nestor d'Argonne]] to [[Chief of Defence (Yonderre)|Chief of Defence]], de Caryale became Chief of the [[General Staff (Yonderre)|General Staff]] in 1933 aged 43, the youngest man ever to have held the title at the time. Now effectively the third-most powerful man in the [[Yonderian Defence Force]] behind the [[Chief of Defence (Yonderre)|Chief of Defence]] and the [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]], de Caryale was able to more effectively force his reforms into being; de Caryale started the long process of reforming Yonderre's cavalry forces, retraining them as motorized and armoured forces when allowed by available materiel. de Caryale also radically changed the [[Organization of a Yonderian Great War Infantry Division|organization of the infantry divisions]], reducing them from four to three regiments and making up for this by increasing the firepower of the individual regiments through an increase in numbers of organic artillery and automatic weapons. This would in theory allow the [[Yonderian Defence Force]] to field more divisions for the same amount of manpower in case of war. | ||
In 1940, de Caryale was introduced to the newly-returned [[Yonderian volunteers to Burgundie in the Great Wars|Volonderre]] [[Rachet d'Everard]]. d'Everard, who was a well-educated officer from the [[Vallonbourg Cavalry School]], had been fighting with the [[Burgoignesc Foreign Legion]] since the very beginning of the [[Second Great War]] in 1934 and thus had first-hand experience of combat, something de Caryale on occasion lamented lacking. de Caryale took the young staff officer under his wing and became a mentor to d'Everard, the two becoming close friends and confidants. | In 1940, de Caryale was introduced to the newly-returned [[Yonderian volunteers to Burgundie in the Great Wars|Volonderre]] [[Rachet d'Everard]]. d'Everard, who was a well-educated officer from the [[Vallonbourg Cavalry School]], had been fighting with the [[Burgoignesc Foreign Legion]] since the very beginning of the [[Second Great War]] in 1934 and thus had first-hand experience of combat, something de Caryale on occasion lamented lacking. de Caryale took the young staff officer under his wing and became a mentor to d'Everard, the two becoming close friends and confidants. | ||