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| leader = [[Khyar Aziouel]]<br>[[Amastan Elmoctar]]<br>[[Hrakhel Kabte]]<br>[[Chekkadh Amanrassa]] | | leader = [[Khyar Aziouel]]<br>[[Amastan Elmoctar]]<br>[[Hrakhel Kabte]]<br>[[Chekkadh Amanrassa]] | ||
| foundation = 2013 | | foundation = 2013 | ||
| dissolved = | | dissolved = 2023 | ||
| merger = | | merger = | ||
| split = | | split = | ||
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| country = {{flag|Charnea}} | | country = {{flag|Charnea}} | ||
| allegiance = | | allegiance = | ||
| motives = Establishment of a {{wp|military government}} | | motives = Purge of the High Command<br>Establishment of a {{wp|military government}} | ||
| area = [[Ajax#Scipia|East Scipia]] | | area = [[Ajax#Scipia|East Scipia]] | ||
| headquarters = | | headquarters = | ||
| newspaper = | | newspaper = | ||
| ideology = {{wp|Militarism}}<br> | | ideology = {{wp|Militarism}}<br>{{wp|Military democracy}}<br>{{wp|Nationalism|Charnean Nationalism}} | ||
| crimes = | | crimes = | ||
| attacks = | | attacks = [[Muttay Ajamhuryin]] | ||
| status = | | status = Officially disbanded | ||
| size = | | size = 28 (2013)<br>450 (2018)<br>3,300 (2023) | ||
| revenue = | | revenue = | ||
| financing = | | financing = | ||
| partof = | | partof = [[Charnean Army]] | ||
| allies = | | allies = Kel Ajama People's Movement | ||
| opponents = | | opponents = AKE Party<br>{{nowrap|Charnean Army General Staff}} | ||
| battles = | | battles = | ||
| flag = | | flag = | ||
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The '''Cobalt Square''' ({{wp|Tamashek}}: ⵎⵓⵔⴰⴱ ⴽⵓⴱⴰⵍⵜ, '''''Murab Kubalt''''') | The '''Cobalt Square''' ({{wp|Tamashek}}: ⵎⵓⵔⴰⴱ ⴽⵓⴱⴰⵍⵜ, '''''Murab Kubalt''''') was a {{wp|political faction}} of the [[Charnean Army]] nominally seeking to eliminate the standing leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the Army's High Command. Through the group's involvement and key role in the [[Muttay]], the groups underlying objective to establish a {{wp|nationalist}} {{wp|military government}} legitimized through the implementation of a {{wp|Military democracy|limited democracy}} would become evident. The Cobalt Square was officially created in the wake of the [[Seven Day Coup]] and the rise of [[Martuf Lamine|Martial Martuf Lamine]] in 2013. It began as a group of four Colonels of the ICA {{wp|Counterinsurgency|counterinsurgency forces}} active in the Hatheria and Deshret regions of eastern Charnea who where won over by the Martial's integrationist political philosophy promising a better lot for the Ajamite, Deshrian and Gharib elements of Charnean society, particularly those serving in the military and civil service. | ||
The Cobalt Square | The founders of the Cobalt Square are all combat veterans of the [[Ninvite War]], deriving the name of their organization from [[Ninvite_War#Breakthrough_in_the_Hasidmawt|Operation Cobalt Sky]]. The Cobalt Square faction of the army was supportive of the Martial's regency government and loyal to Martuf Lamine, receiving protection against punitive actions by the High Command in exchange for their support in Lamine's political agenda and planned reforms of the ICA's fragmented organizational structure. The protection Lamine offered allowed the Colonels of the Square to openly recruit like-minded ICA veterans, especially disgruntled Ajamite non-commissioned officers and enlisted soldiers, into their organization. Martuf Lamine's shocking death in a plane crash connected to the late stages of the [[Fahrani Civil War]] removed this protection from above. As the remnants of Lamine's political faction controlling the government quickly unraveled, forces within the Army and the civilian AKE Party moved to re-assert those elements of the status quo that Lamine had disrupted, beginning by eliminating the dangerous Cobalt Square. The ensuring conflict would result in the Muttay and see the Cobalt Square Colonels seizing power through an action that was part military coup, part internal Army mutiny. However, the organization would quickly splinter itself along ideological lines upon seizing control of the state. The Ajamite supremacist and Charnean nationalist wings of the group entered into intense political conflict with one another, resulting in the Cobalt Square being disbanded as an organization as its principal actors sought other avenues to realize their goals. | ||
==Origins== | ==Origins== | ||
The founders of the Cobalt Square faction are four Colonel rank officers of the Eastern Army, three of which command I Corps counterinsurgency units in Hatheria which have seen sporadic fighting in the ongoing low-intensity conflict in eastern Charnea. The fourth, Colonel [[Khyar Aziouel]] who is considered the {{wp|''primus inter pares''}} of the Cobalt Square leadership, served as Martuf Lamine's deputy commanding the ''Tege'' expeditionary force in the Fahrani Civil War between 2020 and 2022 prior to which he served as the commander of the ICA border guards and desert patrol forces combatting smugglers and insurgents from 2010 to 2020. All four of the Colonels forming the informal Cobalt Square leadership council fought in the Ninvite War, after which they formed their early political connections in the Army through the veterans solidarity and mutual aid organizations which emerged after the war. While the leaders and many of the eventual membership of the group knew each other for many years, they would not openly associate as a faction of the military until after the Seven Day Coup and the successful counter-coup led by Martial Martuf Lamine and his | The founders of the Cobalt Square faction are four Colonel rank officers of the Eastern Army, three of which command I Corps counterinsurgency units in Hatheria which have seen sporadic fighting in the ongoing low-intensity conflict in eastern Charnea. The fourth, Colonel [[Khyar Aziouel]] who is considered the {{wp|primus inter pares|''primus inter pares''}} of the Cobalt Square leadership, served as Martuf Lamine's deputy commanding the ''Tege'' expeditionary force in the Fahrani Civil War between 2020 and 2022 prior to which he served as the commander of the ICA border guards and desert patrol forces combatting smugglers and insurgents from 2010 to 2020. All four of the Colonels forming the informal Cobalt Square leadership council fought in the Ninvite War, after which they formed their early political connections in the Army through the veterans solidarity and mutual aid organizations which emerged after the war. While the leaders and many of the eventual membership of the group knew each other for many years, they would not openly associate as a faction of the military until after the Seven Day Coup and the successful counter-coup led by Martial Martuf Lamine and his close friend and ally General Rezkou Goma. Following the tumultuous events of the coup and counter-coup, many officers of the ICA proactively affirmed their loyalty to the Martial and his new regime while a minority of officers took this a step further and began to advocate for the Martial to reform the government apparatus and fully purge those connected to the coup as well as other corrupt elements of the Charnean power structure. This latter position crystalized around its four most vocal proponents, the Colonels Khyar Aziouel, [[Amastan Elmoctar]], [[Chekkadh Amanrassa]] and [[Hrakhel Kabte]], who established the Cobalt Square faction in an attempt to organize those who held this stance to exert political pressure in support of the Martial's regime and against those elements of the administration which they viewed as corrupt. This effort would not find it's way into the Martial's policies, as the ''de facto'' military dictatorship of Martuf Lamine required the support of the political elites to continue to function. The organization's open opposition to many core components of the Charnean state made them extremely unpopular and an obvious threat to the the high command, although their repugnancy to many politically important groups made them strategically useful to the Martial's regime which regularly used the Cobalt Square as a tool to force the compliance of uncooperative factions in the Agraw. | ||
==Ideology== | ==Ideology== | ||
The | The political ideology of the Cobalt Square's membership varied significantly in practice but was unified on the advancement of the Kel Ajama, the poorer desert-dwelling cousins of the dominant urban Tenerians who were disproportionately overrepresented in the Army, and to a lesser extent the advancement of non-Tenerian people and groups within the military. In particular the Square leveraged anger among the troops against the systems of segregation and suppression which kept their kinsmen out of the wealthy classes, be they unofficial practices as in the case of anti-Ajamite segregation or formalized apartheid as in the case of the non-Tenerians. The founding members of the group were all ethnic Ajamites or non-Tenerians who had overcome tremendous barriers integral to the Army's internal political disposition in order to secure unusually high positions for themselves, positions which were constantly threatened by the high command and other representatives of the status quo. Therefore, this was a highly personal motivation for the officers and lower ranking recruits in the organization, as well as a highly useful political position to hold in terms of drawing in dedicated recruits and expanding the organization among the lower ranks. | ||
==Muttay Ajamhuryin== | |||
{{main|Muttay Ajamhuryin}} | |||
[[Category:Charnea]] | [[Category:Charnea]] | ||
Latest revision as of 21:40, 24 September 2023
| Cobalt Square | |
|---|---|
| ⵎⵓⵔⴰⴱ ⴽⵓⴱⴰⵍⵜ Murab Kubalt | |
| Leader | Khyar Aziouel Amastan Elmoctar Hrakhel Kabte Chekkadh Amanrassa |
| Foundation | 2013 |
| Dissolved | 2023 |
| Country |  Charnea |
| Motives | Purge of the High Command Establishment of a military government |
| Active regions | East Scipia |
| Ideology | Militarism Military democracy Charnean Nationalism |
| Notable attacks | Muttay Ajamhuryin |
| Status | Officially disbanded |
| Size | 28 (2013) 450 (2018) 3,300 (2023) |
| Part of | Charnean Army |
| Allies | Kel Ajama People's Movement |
| Opponents | AKE Party Charnean Army General Staff |
The Cobalt Square (Tamashek: ⵎⵓⵔⴰⴱ ⴽⵓⴱⴰⵍⵜ, Murab Kubalt) was a political faction of the Charnean Army nominally seeking to eliminate the standing leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the Army's High Command. Through the group's involvement and key role in the Muttay, the groups underlying objective to establish a nationalist military government legitimized through the implementation of a limited democracy would become evident. The Cobalt Square was officially created in the wake of the Seven Day Coup and the rise of Martial Martuf Lamine in 2013. It began as a group of four Colonels of the ICA counterinsurgency forces active in the Hatheria and Deshret regions of eastern Charnea who where won over by the Martial's integrationist political philosophy promising a better lot for the Ajamite, Deshrian and Gharib elements of Charnean society, particularly those serving in the military and civil service.
The founders of the Cobalt Square are all combat veterans of the Ninvite War, deriving the name of their organization from Operation Cobalt Sky. The Cobalt Square faction of the army was supportive of the Martial's regency government and loyal to Martuf Lamine, receiving protection against punitive actions by the High Command in exchange for their support in Lamine's political agenda and planned reforms of the ICA's fragmented organizational structure. The protection Lamine offered allowed the Colonels of the Square to openly recruit like-minded ICA veterans, especially disgruntled Ajamite non-commissioned officers and enlisted soldiers, into their organization. Martuf Lamine's shocking death in a plane crash connected to the late stages of the Fahrani Civil War removed this protection from above. As the remnants of Lamine's political faction controlling the government quickly unraveled, forces within the Army and the civilian AKE Party moved to re-assert those elements of the status quo that Lamine had disrupted, beginning by eliminating the dangerous Cobalt Square. The ensuring conflict would result in the Muttay and see the Cobalt Square Colonels seizing power through an action that was part military coup, part internal Army mutiny. However, the organization would quickly splinter itself along ideological lines upon seizing control of the state. The Ajamite supremacist and Charnean nationalist wings of the group entered into intense political conflict with one another, resulting in the Cobalt Square being disbanded as an organization as its principal actors sought other avenues to realize their goals.
Origins
The founders of the Cobalt Square faction are four Colonel rank officers of the Eastern Army, three of which command I Corps counterinsurgency units in Hatheria which have seen sporadic fighting in the ongoing low-intensity conflict in eastern Charnea. The fourth, Colonel Khyar Aziouel who is considered the primus inter pares of the Cobalt Square leadership, served as Martuf Lamine's deputy commanding the Tege expeditionary force in the Fahrani Civil War between 2020 and 2022 prior to which he served as the commander of the ICA border guards and desert patrol forces combatting smugglers and insurgents from 2010 to 2020. All four of the Colonels forming the informal Cobalt Square leadership council fought in the Ninvite War, after which they formed their early political connections in the Army through the veterans solidarity and mutual aid organizations which emerged after the war. While the leaders and many of the eventual membership of the group knew each other for many years, they would not openly associate as a faction of the military until after the Seven Day Coup and the successful counter-coup led by Martial Martuf Lamine and his close friend and ally General Rezkou Goma. Following the tumultuous events of the coup and counter-coup, many officers of the ICA proactively affirmed their loyalty to the Martial and his new regime while a minority of officers took this a step further and began to advocate for the Martial to reform the government apparatus and fully purge those connected to the coup as well as other corrupt elements of the Charnean power structure. This latter position crystalized around its four most vocal proponents, the Colonels Khyar Aziouel, Amastan Elmoctar, Chekkadh Amanrassa and Hrakhel Kabte, who established the Cobalt Square faction in an attempt to organize those who held this stance to exert political pressure in support of the Martial's regime and against those elements of the administration which they viewed as corrupt. This effort would not find it's way into the Martial's policies, as the de facto military dictatorship of Martuf Lamine required the support of the political elites to continue to function. The organization's open opposition to many core components of the Charnean state made them extremely unpopular and an obvious threat to the the high command, although their repugnancy to many politically important groups made them strategically useful to the Martial's regime which regularly used the Cobalt Square as a tool to force the compliance of uncooperative factions in the Agraw.
Ideology
The political ideology of the Cobalt Square's membership varied significantly in practice but was unified on the advancement of the Kel Ajama, the poorer desert-dwelling cousins of the dominant urban Tenerians who were disproportionately overrepresented in the Army, and to a lesser extent the advancement of non-Tenerian people and groups within the military. In particular the Square leveraged anger among the troops against the systems of segregation and suppression which kept their kinsmen out of the wealthy classes, be they unofficial practices as in the case of anti-Ajamite segregation or formalized apartheid as in the case of the non-Tenerians. The founding members of the group were all ethnic Ajamites or non-Tenerians who had overcome tremendous barriers integral to the Army's internal political disposition in order to secure unusually high positions for themselves, positions which were constantly threatened by the high command and other representatives of the status quo. Therefore, this was a highly personal motivation for the officers and lower ranking recruits in the organization, as well as a highly useful political position to hold in terms of drawing in dedicated recruits and expanding the organization among the lower ranks.