Kiravian Armed Forces: Difference between revisions

There are three primary branches of the Kiravian Armed Forces: The Federal Army, Federal Navy, and Cutter Service. The Army Aircorps is responsible for military aviation and remains organisationally integrated with the Federal Army, as does the Marine Corps.

===Federal Army===

The largest of the Kiravian armed forces in terms of personnel and expenditure, the Federal Army operates the Federacy's capabilities for ground, air, and amphibious warfare, as well as most of the Federacy's strategic arsenal, including nuclear and conventional missiles, cyber-warfare, and electronic warfare. As vast ocean distances have protected the [[Great Kirav|Kiravian island continent]] from most serious threats of invasion for most of history, the Army's role has mainly been expeditionary since the end of the [[Continental War]], with state and territorial forces shouldering much of the burden of suppressing domestic insurrections and securing the homeland. The Army ...large scale expeditionary operations during the Great Oceanic Wars and the Tropical Sea War. Under Kirosocialism, the Army was recast in a more strictly defencive role, undertaking a considerable buildup in manpower and weaponry in order to deter foreign aggression against the Federacy's major land masses. In the post-Kirosocialist era, the Army has seen a few major overseas deployments, including the Echo Islands Wars and the Puritan Cross Intervention, but has increasingly seen its overseas activity limited to brief special forces, aerial, and amphibious operations in support of Kiravian foreign policy and the [[KATI]] alliance.