Burgoignesc way of war

The [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc}} way of war is a modern media concept that is use to generalize the way in which Burgundie conducts military operations across all of its branches in the 21st century. It is not a formal doctrine or policy, but rather an academic observation on how the policies, alliances, strategies, doctrines, and culture/history of The Burgundies coalesce into the actual conduct of warfare by soldiers under the Burgoignesc banner.

It is broken down into 5 phases, initiation of war, opening maneuvers, sustained combat, occupation, and withdrawal, each of which carry idiosyncrasies of Burgundie.

Initiation of war

Unlike in previous centuries, Burgundie has taken a less interventionist stance in the world. The government has allowed for much more self determination in the nations that used to make up the Burgoignesc Colonial Empire. It instead follows a strategy closely aligned Urcea's Policy of Authoritative Deference with it's allies, but has not formalized this into a policy as Urcea has done.

Burgundie has given more leverage and funding to other foreign policy avenues and in recognition that "war is the last act of diplomacy", subjugated the Ministry of Defense to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

When it is determined that military engagement/intervention is needed to pursue the national interest Burgundie now consults with the LUDC before conducting unilateral operations, especially when the operation is expected to become a wider conflict and not just a limited scope mission set.

Opening maneuvers

Because of its current posture, Burgundie's primary enemies are not it's near peers and as such the initial actions of combat operations are to establish a few key sectors of dominance. Even though the Burgoignesc Security Forces have numerous rapid deployment teams, it still takes time to get them on location. As such the initial phase of dominance is communications and signals which can occured almost immediately. The Royal Air Service of Burgundie and the Navy of Burgundie have large theater-wide communications jamming platforms they are constantly roaming the world waiting to be switched on. TThese airframes and ships combine their frequency and signal jamming or scrambling capability to create and enforce a communications black out in most developing nations and some smaller developed nations.

While these jamming operations are ongoing, Burgundie moves to establish air space dominance. This is initially embarked upon by carrier based fighters and fighter bombers