Doradan Armed Forces

The Doradan Defense Force
El Fuerzo Defensivo Doradaño
Flag of the Doradan Armed Forces
Service branches	Ground Defense Force Naval Defense Force Air Defense Force
Headquarters	Doradan Defense Command, Puerto Bello, Puerto Bello
Air arm flying hours	20/month
Leadership
Prime Minister	Luís Rosa Esclavas
Secretary for the National Defense	José Hoyo Gonzalez
Personnel
Military age	18-56
Available for military service	40,538,440 (DI 215), age 18-50 (DI 212)
Fit for military service	28,782,292 (DI 215), age 18-50 (DI 212)
Reaching military age annually	100.176 (DI 215) (DI 212)
Active personnel	399,392
Reserve personnel	27,181
Deployed personnel	No foreign deployments
Expenditure
Budget	$13,899,460,741 NSD
Percent of GDP	3%

Structure

There are currently 426,573 persons serving in the Doradan Defense Force, and has been operating with roughly the same amount of personnel that it had been serving in the Doradan Defense Force since its reorganization after the Verdean invasion. Dorado is a volunteer organization, and is legally barred from conscripting citizens until the insurgency situation is dealt with. Women are allowed to volunteer, and serve in all capacities for which they are qualified, comprising slightly over one hundred thousand persons, or one quarter of the FDD's total manpower. In recruitment, efforts have been made to limit defections to the insurgency, and as result loyalty requirements were instituted. There has been some success in these efforts, but there is still a significant problem with defections even as recently as DI 218.

Doradan Armed Forces Order of Battle.

High Command

The Doradan Armed Forces are led by a council composed of the highest military officers from each of the branches of military services. Each of these council members are of equivalent rank and are chiefs of staff for their own armed forces (General for the Ground Defense, Admiral for the Naval Defense, and Air Marshal for the Air Defense). The council reports to the Secretary for National Defense, who reports to the Commander in Chief of the Doradan Defense Force, the Doradan Chancellor.

Conscription

Dorado is currently an all volunteer force, and is legally barred from enacting conscription until the ultimate defeat of the ongoing Doradan insurgency, as a method of preventing military defections. The former Doradan government did operate on a limited conscription model, and many believe that should the Doradan government defeat the insurgency, this conscription model may be reinstated. There has been no formal changes that would indicate these changes would be made however, and current military doctrine has no provisions for a significant expansion of military force.

Intelligence Gathering Capabilities

Dorado operates a highly decentralized military intelligence network. Whereas many other Archipelagic armed forces make use of relatively consolidated dedicated military intelligence services, the Doradan armed forces, barring a cyberwarfare department in the Air Defense Force, instead has a number of organic intelligence bodies attached to divisions in the case of the Ground Defense, and fleets in the case of naval defense. Dorado largely relies on human intelligence networks, recurited from locals, and working with assigned military units to locate and eliminate insurgent forces in the Doradan countryside.

Role

The current role of the Doradan armed forces is strictly defensive nature, and has been structured to engage in counter-insurgency warfare within its own borders. Due to the reconstruction of the government under Verdean occupation, almost all of its offensively orientated assets, especially long range ballistic and cruise missile, as well as anti-shipping capability, forcibly stripped by occupiers as part of the restructuring of the armed forces. The army is the primary defensive asset of the Doradan armed forces, being deployed throughout the country, largely in rural areas to combat insurgent forces, and respond to terror attacks. The Doradan naval forces are rather more focused on counter-piracy and smuggling interdiction operations in order to cut the insurgency off from sources of funding and supply. The air arm is supporting arm, largely intended to support the operations of other branches, but with a sizable interceptor force for maintaining aerial sovereignty.

See Also

• List of Equipment of the Doradan Armed Forces
• Ranks of the Doradan Armed Forces