Army of Burgundie

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Army of Burgundie
Strates della Republique Real Burgundie
Standard of the Army of Burgundie
Country Burgundie
TypeArmy
RoleLand warfare, Cyberwarfare, Space warfare
Size150,000 active, 375,000 reserve,
2.5 million territorial defense personnel
Part ofBurgoignesc Security Forces
Colorsburgundy and gold
Engagementsall of them, (Levantine Creep)

Because of its non-permanent status, the majority of Burgundie's Army is best suited to fourth generation warfare, which is the basic doctrine of force. It relies entirely on small unit tactics and small, fast armored vehicles. This doctrine is born from the bloody origins of the nation, that presupposes that all citizens are soldiers and that massive standing armies are too expensive for the threat levels that Burgundie has historically encountered.

The arms and insignia of the Army is an escutcheon with an upper party per fess Gules and a lower Argent with a river in nombril point, with a badge of crossed lance and bill hook or. The Red signifies the high opinion of the blood spilled, the logistical ability of the army to get over any obstacle, and the lance represents the officers and the bill hook the soldiers. The lance recalls the Eques of the lans proviso, the bill hook the various other foot soldiers each man-at-arms would bring to accompany them.

Mission

The Army of Burgundie (Burg: le Strates della Burgundie), commonly called le Strates, serves as the land-based branch of the Civil Defense and Security Ministry in the Burgoignesc Security Forces. The mission the army is charged with is:

  • Preserving the peace and security, and providing for the defense of The Burgundies, and any areas occupied by Burgundie;
  • Maintaining and preparing against future threats to the sovereignty of Burgundie;
  • Implementing the national objectives for land forces as determined by the national government of Burgundie; and
  • Overcoming any nations or parties responsible for aggressive acts that imperil the peace, security, or commerce of The Burgundies.

Strategic doctrine

Le Strates works to achieve its mission through its strategic approach. The strategic approach is that the army is always prepared to:

  • rapidly and with oppressive force, engage all enemies in a prompt, but fully logistically-support fashion;
  • wage sustained land and cyber combat against any opponent, anywhere in the world;
  • conduct combined arms operations with unified command structures, combat objectives, and communications;
  • execute special operations in support of ongoing military operations;
  • establish and sustain the theater or area of operations for joint forces operations; and
  • liaison, integrate, and fight with valor alongside national, and multinational forces.

Tactical approach

Le Strates prepares and expects all of its soldiers, at all levels, to take the initiative and take an adaptive approach to complete orders and meet objectives. It builds its command structure from the highest level to support all levels of maneuver units down to the battalion level. Focus on small formation tactics has led to le Strates to have an outsized and global logistical mechanism to "feed the beast". Because the majority of the army is not in an active-duty status (only the Burgoignesc Foreign Legion is a permanent full-time unit of le Strates), there is not a plodding bureaucracy resistant to change. Le Strates is adaptive to change, and often relies on, and therefore invests in, changes recommended by field-deployed personnel. The survivability of the individual soldier is considered the highest priority in achieving the mission and therefore the soldier's experience is the catalyst for changes in doctrine. However, since the Legion is the only standing element of the Army, it has a massive influence on tactical and strategic thinking.

History

Standing Army

In the 14th and early 15th century bands of mercenaries, whose contracts with their masters had expired, were the scourge of medieval Kingdom of Dericania. In the late 1430s, unemployed Derian mercenaries pillaged across southern Dericania. Eventually some were recruited by southern mercenary captains who hired them out to the royal companies raised by order of the local princes, who it seems regarded them as a major impediment to peaceful rule. They extorted protection money from local peasants as well as exacting tolls from passing merchants and holding local important people for ransom.

In 1461 the Bishop of Bonavix passed laws that restricted military recruitment and training to himself. There was a new tax to be raised known as the taille that was to provide funding for a new provincial army. The mercenary companies were given a choice of either joining the provincial army as the maintained one hundred (Burg: les centes manutenures on a permanent basis, or being hunted down and destroyed if they refused. The bishop was able to cobble together one such unit in 1463, which was sent out to gradually eliminate the remaining mercenaries who insisted on operating on their own. The new standing army had a more disciplined and professional approach to warfare than its predecessors. In addition to this unit, the bishops still called upon men-at-arms and footmen by calling a general levy where all able-bodied males age 15 to 60 living in the bishopric were summoned to go to war.

This was the first standing army raised in the principalities that were later unified into Burgundie. Called the maintained one hundred (Burg: les centes manutenures), the unit was at, approximately, a modern company strength, being built around 100 knights (Burg: Eques) and their attendants.

Each lance (Burg: lans proviso for 'contractually obligated lance') contained, six men. The senior member was a man-at-arms (Burg: gens des armes), initially a mercenary captain but eventually a knight owing a knight's fee (Burg: Eques). This man was supported by a squire (Burg: coutillier), usually a younger man still undergoing his apprenticeship to arms, or not yet fully proved in battle. The man-at-arms and squire were further assisted by a page, or (Burg: valiet de guerre), usually a teenage male, who was responsible for caring for their armour, equipment, and horses. The squire was generally fully armoured, and usually charged alongside (or close by) the man-at-arms, and helped him handle the sixteen- to nineteen-foot lance when they fought dismounted (which initially happened fairly often). The lance further contained two archers, who were at first considered mounted infantrymen, provided with horses for mobility alone, but not for battlefield operations. Some were apparently equipped with bows and arrows, others with crossbows, and all also carried swords or axes and some armour, if usually less than the man-at-arms and the squire. As time went on, their role became increasingly difficult to distinguish from that of the other two combat soldiers. By the time of the Great Confessional War, the 'archers' had apparently evolved into armored lancers.

The Bishopric of Bonavix raised and maintained this unit until the end of the Great Confessional War in 1575. The unit was lead by a Sergeant-Captain, usually the bishop, but not exclusively. The success of the unit inspired others to create similar units and by the start of the Great Confessional War, other a third of the combatants maintained standing armies of various sizes.

Great War

introducion of (Burg: dracvautoureuers, lit. vulture dragoons) paratroopers named after the lunar (Istroyan: hippógypoi) from A True Story, an Istroyan classic satire, and the first known science fiction book.

Organization

Main article: Burgoignesc Security Forces
Main article: Structure of the Burgoignesc Army
Structure of the Army of Burgundie (click to enlarge).

Army Commands
Forces
Training and Doctrine
Materiel

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Service components
Audonia
Crona
Kiro-Borealis
Levantine
Levantine Union
Punth
Sarpedon
Special Operations
Surface Deployment and Distribution
Space and Missile Defense
Cyber Command

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Direct reporting units
Medical
Intelligence and Security
Criminal Investigation
Corps of Engineers
Military District of the Capital
Test and Evaluation
Military Academy
Reserve
Acquisition Management
Installation Management

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Field Armies
First (Defense)
Second (Expeditionary)
Foreign (Expeditionary)

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Branches
Acquisition Corps
Adjutant General's Corps
Air Defense Artillery Branch
Armor Branch
Aviation Branch
Army Band
Coastal Defense Artillery
Chaplain Corps
Chemical Corps
Civil Affairs Corps
Corps of Engineers
Dental Corps
Field Artillery Corps
Finance Corps
Inspector General's Corps
Judge Advocate General's Corps
Logistics Branch
Medical Corps
Medical Service Corps
Medical Specialist Corps
Military Intelligence Corps
Inspector General's Corps
Military Police Corps/Provost Gendarmerie
Nurse Corps
Ordnance Corps
Psychological Operations
Quartermaster Corps
Fire Seneschalcy
Signal Corps
Special Forces
Transportation Corps
Veterinary Corps

Training Command

The training command in the Army of Burgundie is

Standardized Militia Program

Young Burgoignacs receive their federal conscription orders for training at the age of 18, or after they have completed their high school studies. About two-thirds of the young Burgoinacs are found suited for military service; for those found unsuited, various forms of alternative federal service exist. Annually, approximately 42,000 persons participate in the militia program which consists of a 3 month basic training period, three 30 day special skills training (sabotage/explosives, amphibious operations, long-range shooting), a two-month tactical decision-making class, a two month review training period, culmination in a month-long exercise. Four week-long leaves are provided as part of the program. Once the "year of service" is completed and voting citizenship is attained, citizens can volunteer to continue their participation in the Standardized Militia Program. Continuing participates receive the following benefits: 100% of the first higher education degree paid for, non-competitive status for federal jobs, a $500 tax break/annum, $10,000 stipend/annum and access to housing programs/preferential lending rates.

Sergeants College of the Army of Burgundie

colloquially called the Homados Corporation (Homados being the personification of the din of battle)

Royal Military Academy

National Military Academy

Cohors Equites Collegium

Staff college, colloquially called the Minerva Institute (Minerva being the goddess of strategy most historically celebrated in Burgundie)

Community College of the Army of Burgundie

Armed Forces University

Foreign Legion

Following the expulsion of the Protestants from Levantia during the Great Confessional War, Burgundie was flooded with Protestants and a Duke that was hostile to their presence in Burgundie. As an attempt to deal with their persistent presence and under pressure from the Holy Levantine Empire and the Papacy, the Duke of Burgundie, created the Burgundian Foreign Legion as a way to displace them, but bolster his military power. At its conception in 1577, the unit consisted of 1,000 Protestant men with 5 Catholic officers. They were trained as marines and were assigned to merchant ships conducting business outside of Levantia. This role persisted until the late 1800s when the needs of the thalosocrassy shifted and molded the legion to fit.

During the Occupation of Wintergen and Kiravian Pseudo-War and the subsequent occupations of AyerSee, Sodermark and Sturmhavn that permanent garrisons would need to be established to defend the islands. The Legion was re-purposed as amphibious infantry units. Their training consisted primarily of marine skills but added amphibious assault and coastal defense to the repertoire.

Today the Legion consists of 35,048 members, is still primarily Protestant, is excluded from operating in Levantia, is made up of 85% Burgoignacs and 15% foreigners, and is the only permanent "army" unit in Burgundie.

It is headquartered at Fort LaRemie, Equitorial Ostiecia.

IV Alshari Division

I Foreign Infantry Regiment

XIV Foreign Infantry Regiment

Umardi Askari Demi-Brigade

The Umardi Askaris are a unit of the Burgoignesc Foreign Legion formed of ethnic nomadic Umardi tribesmen from Umardwal and Pukhgundi who serve under Burgoigniac officers. It is the last and only segregated unit in the Army of Burgundie, with the codification of the roles of soldiers (lascarins) and officers being delineated by nationality and therefore race. Currently, the Demi-Brigade has 2,246 lascarins and officers and is based at Fort Safasi, Umardwal, the only unit in the Burgoignesc Security Forces permanently stationed outside of the territorial Burgoignesc thalattocracy.


Formed in 1723 the Askaris were a regiment in the colonial forces of the Ularien Trading Empire, who traced their roots to the Oduniyyad Caliphate’s invasion of southern Alshar in the YEARS. They served as the core of the colonial troops in the empire’s Audonian holdings, particularly since they were Shia and the remainder of the continent was primarily Sunni. This was part of the empire’s deliberate divide and rule policies that utilized religious, cultural, and tribal differences to advance the empire’s aims. After the collapse of the empire the unit was disbanded in 1842. The remaining Umardi Askaris were sent to various Burgoignesc Foreign Legion units and their history was all but forgotten. It was reformed in 1964 with the formation of the Islamic Republic of Umardwal when secular and non-Muslim nomads faced persecution at the hands of the Islamic Republics secret police. The nomads had strong connections with similar nomadic communities in Bulkh and Pukhgundi, the latter of which also joined the unit as they were facing similar persecution in their country.

The officers of the Askari’s are all recruited from the Provost Gendarmerie of Burgundie and serve as both officers and internal military police. This means the training is brutal and punishments for even minor infractions are severe. However, since the unit is one of the most active in the Army of Burgundie and because of its strict and martial command and lifestyle, the unit often performs well in overwhelming odds.

Fort Safasi is unique in that it has very few barracks buildings for the soldiers as they like to maintain their nomadic traditions which is encouraged as it supports a campaign lifestyle. It is also more of a community than a base as the families of the soldiers are as much a part of the unit as the soldiers themselves.

Kandaran Mounted Scout Regiment

Kantonan Levy Regiment

Alshari Cuirassier Squadron

The Alshari Cuirassier Squadron, commonly referred to simply as the Cuirassiers, are equipped with the Cross Trucking Company AMX-10 RCR.

Alshari Cuirassier International Fraternal Units

The Alshari Cuirassier Squadron are fraternal with the Royal Arcerion Dragoons of the Arcer Army. They share the distinction of being the successor of heavy cavalry for their respective armies and as such they share a sense of that heritage and many common traditions. They hold an annual competitive joust an Barrel racing competition where in the units exercise equestrian sports appropriate to the role of heavy cavalry. In essence this translates to being equestrian sport that focuses on handling and short distance running, no activities relating to endurance running are conducted.

VII Foreign Engineer Regiment

XXIV Foreign Field Supply Battalion

IV Foreign Transport Battalion

XVII Foreign General Supply Regiment

XIII Equitorioise Brigade

Equitorioise Imperial Camel Constabulary

Cronan Alpine Infantry Regiment

Fianna Tauth Regiment

Mechanized Infantry

Fianna Tauth International Fraternal Units

The Fianna Tauth are fraternal with the 211u Mechanized Brigade of the 21. Mechanized Division of the National Army Land Forces of Faneria. They share a historic Celtic heritage and many common traditions. They hold an annual Feis where in the Regiments exercise Gaelic arts – song, dance, drama, Fhasen language, traditional music, and Cluichí Gaelacha (particularly Gaelic football and Hurling).

CXLVII Foreign Combat Engineer Company

LXVII Foreign Engineer Battalion

XCII Foreign Alpine Engineer Battalion

LXXVII Foreign Field Sustainment Battaltion

IV Foreign Field Supply Battalion

LXXIV Foreign Transport Battalion

IX Foreign General Supply Regiment

Pukhgoignesc Gorhka Rifles Division

II Gorkha Parachutiste Regiment

IV Gorkha Parachutiste Regiment

VIII Gorkha Airborne Infatry Regiment

Airmobile mechanised inf

XXVII Gorkha Engineer Regiment

III Gorkha Assault Pioneer Battalion

XXII Gorkha Transportation Battalion

III Gorkha Support Squadron

XLIII Foreign Field Supply Battalion

I Greater Levantine Brigade

KilPatrick Ranger Regiment

Paras

International Fraternal Units

The KilPatrick Ranger are fraternal with the Kinnaird Grenadiers of the Arcer Army. They share a historic Celtic heritage and many common traditions. They hold an annual Fèis where in the Regiments exercise Gaelic arts – song, dance, drama, language, traditional music, and highland games.

Raulie Bushrangers Regiment

Airborne heavy infantry

XXXIII Foreign Engineer Battaltion

LXIV Foreign Transportation Battalion

XLVII Foreign Support Squadron

LXXXIV Foreign Field Supply Battalion

I Foreign Sustainment Brigade

XII Foreign Signals Regiment

I Foreign Electronic Warfare Regiment

XV Foreign Sapper Battalion

I Foreign Combat Hospital Regiment

II Foreign Multifunctional Medical Support Regiment

XXXVII Foreign Field Supply Battalion

XI Foreign Transport Battalion

III Foreign Maritime Support Squadron

XXXIX Psychological Operations Battalion

I Drone Warefare Regiment

Metropole Forces

Army Reserve Command

Since the Metropole Forces are not a standing army it requires a series of reserves to maintain their skills in the event that they are needed. Burgundie achieves this one three levels. The LUDC, the Metropolitan Guard, and the Princess Royal's Volunteers.

Levantine Union Defense Council as a reserve force

The Levantine Union Defense Council (LUDC), of which Burgundie is a co-founding member, provides a convenient loophole to the legal statute preventing Burgundie from having a standing army in the Burgoignesc Metropole. Burgundie provides a disproportionate amount of personnel support to the LUDC's Mobile Land Forces Element. By subjugating command and control of these units to the LUDC and not a Burgoignesc command, they are considered not a national standing army, but supernational-interagency combat units. This creates a thriving environment for soldiers and commander to train and gain valuable experience while also ensuring that the majority of the Army of Burgundie is capable of engaging in international operations and understanding complex and dynamic command environments.

Metropolitan Guard

Banner of the Metropolitan Guard.

The Burgoignesc Grand Principal Republican Metropolitan Guard, (Burg: Vigilanteuers della Republique Real Burgoignesc), more commonly known as the Metropolitan Guard, is the ready-reserve infantry force of the Army of Burgundie. It constitutes a semi-professional corps of non-commissioned and junior officers. It is designed to be activated in the event of an invasion of the Burgoignesc Metropole and to rally residents to fight a guerilla war against the invaders.

Princess Royal's Volunteers

Banner of the Princess Royal's Vonlunteers.

The Princess Royal's Volunteers is a civilian self-defense league operated under the leadership of the army but regulated on a day-to-day basis by the National Gendarmerie of Burgundie. It is an inactive reserve force for the Army of Burgundie and has a membership of about 1.7 million. Sometimes called the Peasant's Army, the Membership is a prerequisite for fire arms ownership in Burgundie. Upon completion of the application process and 40 hrs of firearms safety training, residents are given a license to buy, own, and where permissable by local law, carry firearms. There are no dues, and members are automatically rostered with the Princess Royal's Volunteers. This designation means that in the event of a national emergency or war members are forbade from leaving the country and subject to conscription. To maintain membership residents have to complete 4 hours of subervised range time each month, and one combat village course each year.

I Infantry Tacticale

Known as the Esquire's Legion (Burg: tacticale ecuier) the I Infantry Tacticale is now more commonly associated with the higher class of the Burgoignesc military society. Its organization is unique in that it seconds all of its members to the Burgoignesc Civil Engineer Troops in times of peace, meaning that its 21,590 soldiers are full-time military professionals while respecting the constitutional and societal concept that Burgundie does not have a standing home army.

Contemporary Units of the I Infantry Tacticale

I Infantry Tacticale History

Contemporary I Infantry Tacticale History

II Infantry Tacticale

Known as the vavasour's Legion (Burg: tacticale vavasour) the II Infantry Tacticale is a more commonly associated with the working class of the Burgoignesc military society and as such their dress uniform does not include a jacket. Its members are all reservists and are employed by organizations other than the Army of Burgundie.

Contemporary Units of the II Infantry Tacticale

II Infantry Tacticale History

Contemporary II Infantry Tacticale History

I Armored Tacticale


Modern combat uniform of the Ist Armored Legion, #dealwithit Lanciers rouges de la Garde impériale Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale Cent-gardes_Squadron

Uniform Gallery

I Armored Tacticale History

Contemporary I Armored Tacticale History

Household Guard

Great Prince's Own Royal Zwallerkaddian Foot Guard

Main article: Great Prince's Own Royal Zwallerkaddian Foot Guard

The Great Prince's Own Royal Zwallerkaddian Foot Guard is an ethnic Zwallerkaddian Guard demi-regiment in the direct service of the Great Prince of Burgundie. The Guard is a non-mechanized infantry demi-regiment tasked with the protection of the Great Prince, his family and possessions.

Duke of Burgundie's Guide Sipahis

Great Prince's Own Horse Artillery

Guidon of the Great Prince's Own Horse Artillery

First formed in 1557, the unit that is now the Great Prince's Own Horse Artillery (Burg: Artillerie a Cheval della Gran Princep), has a long history of excellence. Due to the nature of warfare prior to the Great Confessional War in Levantia (1555 - 1575), most principalities and duchies did not have standing armies. This meant that they did not have training programs and so when men-at-arms (Burg: gendarmes) and their peasant levies were called to action they could only provide a limited scope of rudimentary battle tactics. The introduction of gunpowder to Levantine warfare in the 15th century was assumed to begin a revolution in warfare. However, outside of sieges and castle/fortification defense, these bombards were determined to be too immobile and unreliable for set-piece battles. They were only used by well-resourced, large armies controlled by kings or those armies raised by the Emperor of the Levantines.

The use of the word "cannon" marks the introduction in the 15th century of a dedicated field carriage with axle, trail and animal-drawn limber—this produced mobile field pieces that could move and support an army in action, rather than being found only in the siege and static defenses. The reduction in the size of the barrel was due to improvements in both iron technology and gunpowder manufacture, while the development of trunnions—projections at the side of the cannon as an integral part of the cast—allowed the barrel to be fixed to a more movable base, and also made raising or lowering the barrel much easier. These innovations allowed for the more widespread use of cannons but added the requirement for trained, professional soldiers and logisticians. Artillery was one of the areas requiring the most training to be conducted consistently and with any real effect. As such artillery companies were among the first professional standing army units to be formed in Levantia. In the coastal areas of the Kingdom of Dericania this was first recorded in the first few years of the Great Confessional War when the need for an organic (not mercenary) corps of artillery was realized by some of the armies on both sides. Few dukes, counts, and lesser princes, could afford a permanent military much less the specialized equipment that went along with artillery batteries. However, the Vilauristre Conference (Protestant) and the Duchy of Marialanus (Catholic) were wealthy merchant states with trade routes and thus direct access to the metallurgists who had served the Oduniyyad Caliphate until its collapse in 1517.

These gunsmiths were brought to Vilauristre Conference and the Duchy of Marialanus and grand manufactories for cannons and later early musketry were formed, these wares were not only produced for the armies of these states but for their allies. The Vilauristre Conference created predominantly iron cannons for the Protestant Union and the Duchy of Marialanus created primarily bronze cannons for the Holy League.

Examples of Marlialanian "field" artillery.

The Duke of Marialanus formed the Company of Cannoneers in 1557 with three cannons. It is from this Company of Cannoneers that the Artillerie a Cheval della Gran Princep draws its heritage. During the Burgoignesc Unification War, more widely called the Second Fratricide, the Ducal Corps of Artillery fought with honor against the Principality of Burgundie, but ultimately the Duchy lost and was subsumed into the new nation of Burgundie. The unit was disbanded from 1875-1896 when it was reformed as the 4th Regiment of Horse Artillery, to fight in the First Great War. They served in the War of Faskano Strait with distinction despite staggering loses and were. At the end of the war when the Metropole Forces were being disbanded again, to honor their service and sacrifice they were reorganized as the Artillerie a Cheval della Gran Princep and made a permanent bodyguard unit for the royal family.

They currently use the CAESAR self-propelled howitzer and a variety of mortars when in combat.

Fire Seneschalcy

Main article: Fire Seneschalcy of Burgundie

The Fire Seneschalcy of Burgundie is the unit of the Army of Burgundie that exercises the following coordinating authority in Burgoignesc territory:

  • multi-jurisdictional fires
  • fire safety and preparedness
  • fire safety inspections of government buildings
  • fire fighting for "critical infrastructure" and military bases

Cooperative Units

Other Commands

Army Special Services Command

Army Interdiction Forces

CBRNE Response Directorate

Electronic and Signals Warefare Operations

Cyberwarfare Directorate

Industrial Maintenance Service

Ancient and Honorable Logistics Train

The Ancient and Honorable Logistics Train (Burg: Train Logistique Ancien et Honourable (TraLAH)) is a collection of company level pack animal troupes for combat logistics in environments and theaters where terrain or refueling capabilities are complex. There are 8 mule companies, 6 dromedary companies, 4 horse companies, and a dog sled company.

Each company consists of a headquarters, a veterinarian platoon, a feed and handling platoon, and 10 squads of two animals each, with the exception of the dog sled company which has 5 squads each with a sled and 8 dogs.

The future is analog, you heard it here first.

Overseas Enemy Arms Repurposement Sustainment Brigade

TO&E of the OBSRAE
TO&E of the OBSRAE

The Overseas Enemy Arms Repurposement Sustainment Brigade (Burg: L'Outremer Brigade Sustenement pour le Reutilisement des Armes Ennemi (OBSRAE)) is a brigade-strength combined-capabilities logistics and engineering unit tasked with the rehabilitation of captured arms from opposition forces to reduce the logistical requirements on units of the Army of Burgundie. The OBSRAE is composed of two motor pool/mechanics battalions to reconstitute enemy ground vehicles, one aviation maintenance battalion, a small arms repair battalion, a research/evaluation/training battalion, and a brigade support battalion.

While it follows a standard brigade structure, the battalions are all capable of operating independently down to the company level and are often combined to fit the specific needs of the Army of Burgundie's deployed formations. The OBSRAE can be requested by any general officer on the recommendation of a field-grade officer, with a justification. The OBSRAE's headquarters unit includes a Resource Allocation and Adjudication Company which is focused on ensuring that the Brigade's elements are able to meet all requests and are deployed efficiently.

The headquarters unit also includes a Brigade HQ/HQ Company, a Network Support Company, an independent Engineer Company, and a Site Security Infantry Company.

Operational history

The concept of repurposing captured enemy weapons (Burg: repurposement) has long been practiced during longer campaigns, particularly in theaters of operations far away from the Burgoignesc Metropole. A similar strategy, Prize have been conducted by navies for centuries, and has, since prior to its unification, been central to Burgoignesc martial maritime culture. Its use on land was not formalized until late in the Second Great War at which point Burgundie's army was spread across the globe and its logistics capabilities were strained to their breaking point. Units were asked to live off of the land and utilize captured equipment where possible so as to reduce the demand on the materiel supply chain. There was measured success but not enough to reduce demand and at the end of the war the mechanisms in place were disbanded.

During Operation Kipling the cultural revolution at home and the resulting opposition the war and the military-industrial complex led to a similar supply chain problem. Some lieutenants whose squads were in particularly hard to supply areas took it upon themselves to train their soldiers on the use of enemy weapons (particularly small arms) and supplemented their ability to sustain fires with captured enemy munitions. As the war expanded this percolated up to the field-grade officers who began not only to increase the formality and investment in this capability but also to develop specialized recon missions to capture, instead of destroying, enemy weapons in remote areas of operations (AOs). This required specialized training, not only for general forces but also of the units conducting the recon missions. This request for supplemental training reached back to Army headquarters in the lat 1970s and the Standardized Militia Progam was reworked to include training on the main battle rifle of the Army of Burgundie, but also the primary weapons of the top three adversaries of Burgundie at that time. This program was scrapped in the mid 80s as ineffectual but it was added to the advanced infantry schools of the Metropole Forces and the Burgoignesc Foreign Legion and increased to the top 5 rifle/assault rifle platforms.

In 2012, L'Outremer Brigade Sustenement pour le Reutilisement des Armes Ennemi (OBSRAE)) was formed to increase the repurposement capability beyond small arms and include land-based vehicles. A supplemental "Adversarial Platform Familiarization and Industrial Strategy" course was added for maintenance personnel and vehicle crews so that they could, theoretically, get into any vehicle in the world (regardless of the labeling language on the instrumentation) and understand it enough to drive it to a secure area to be repurposed by friendly forces. Once in a secure location these vehicles are remanded to the OBSRAE for repurposement.

In 2018, OBSRAE was expanded to include an aviation maintenance battalion. To date the battalion is only tasked with repurposement of rotary-wing and small fixed-wing support airframes. The capability to effectively repurpose larger attack, interceptor, and bomber aircraft, while feasible, cannot be met with enough trained fighter/bomber pilots, so it has been deemed inefficacious.

Since its formation in 2012, OBSRAE has been deployed 48 times for an average of 6 months. It has reduced the demand on the Burgoignesc materiel supply chain by:

Personnel

Bases

Equipment

Main article: Modern equipment and uniform of the Army of Burgundie

Army Flag

Flag of the Army of Burgundie
Flag of the Army of Burgundie

Notable Soldiers

Name Country of Origin Country(ies) of Service Lifespan Contribution Notes
Leonardo of Venceia
 Caphiria  Caphiria  Duchy of Marialanus 1452–1519
In 1502, he produced a birds eye view map of fortifications, the first of its kind in the Occidental world.
Joan-Christianus Aloysius Brilbelle
 Free City of Granblaix  Bishopric of Bonavix 1743-1831
In 1782, he created a highly modified tactical version of chess for the Bishop of Bonavix. It is considered one of the first wargames.
Oilliem-Alliander Fremand Ouitan  Burgundie  Burgundie 1914-1967 In 1932, he began publishing paperback books for soldiers in his unit small enough to fit in uniform pockets. By 1935, this lead to the Army sponsoring a massive paperback publishing effort which continued the world over after the war.