Lesser Verdean Navy

The Confederate Navy
El Marina Confederado
Emblem of the Platan Armed Forces
Service branches	The Platan People's Militia People's Naval Self Defense Force Platan People's Air Self Defense Force
Headquarters	Confederal Presidential Palace, Vittoria, Isla Zafiro
Air arm flying hours	15/month
Leadership
President	Albino Feliciana Tancredo Oquendo
Admiral of the Confederate Navy	Luciano Fidel Leonisa
Personnel
Military age	18-35
Available for military service	6,272,081, age 18-50 (DI 215)
Fit for military service	4,359,945, age 18-50 (DI 215)
Reaching military age annually	32,181 (DI 215)
Active personnel	14,487
Reserve personnel	1,569
Deployed personnel	8,121
Expenditure
Budget	$553,463,932 NSD
Percent of GDP	.5%

Lesser Verde's armed forces are consolidated under the command of the Confederate Navy (Verdean: El Marina Confederado), which serves as Lesser Verde's defensive apparatus. The Lesser Verdean Navy maintains extensive foreign deployments throughout the Verdean Archipelago in large part due to its support of Verdean operations in Dorado, as well as anti-piracy operations in the archipelago. Lesser Verde maintains an exclusively volunteer force. In spite of its many deployments, Lesser Verde does not engage in aggressive operations opting instead to support its allies, and to fight pirates that trouble the Archipelago.

History

As is the case with many modern Verdean militaries, the Lesser Verdean navy can trace its roots back to the New Model Army reforms of the First Verdean Empire. Several Lesser Verdean islands would be proving grounds for the modern military of the Empire, hosting manufacturing for the modern, standardized weapons, and seeing itself host to the construction of the first ironclads when the Second Verdean Empire, under Emperor Carlos XII began another round of reforms in the first century DI. The Lesser Verdean islands would not form a proper defense force of their own however, until DI 191 when the government of the Conglomerated States of the Lesser Verdean Islands was reorganized into the modern Confederacy.

The Confederacy established a single service armed force under the command of a revolutionary leader, Angel Braulio Turlos, who became the first Admiral of the Confederate Navy. Initially, there were many challenges for the nascent fleet. Though the Seraph had left some assets to capture, including naval vessels, the Confederate Navy was initially severely under-equipped, and further as an organization largely staffed by former guerrillas, there was little experience in the way of Naval Warfare to even prepare a proper doctrine for the Navy to operate off of. As a result, the Confederate Navy was heavily dependent on foreign aid, particularly from Verde, and the post-revolutionary Capisarian state. Confderate Naval forces would gain combat experience engaging anti-piracy operations in the early 3rd century DI, and would provide a token force to assist in the invasion of Dorado during the Doradan War, as well as assisting in the occupation afterwards.

Structure

There are currently 14,487 personnel serving in the Confederate Navy, all of whom are volunteers or professional soldiers. Women are currently allowed to serve in all aspects of miltary service, and indeed the Lesser Verdean Navy has one of the highest percentages of female military personnel in Greater Meridon (slightly over two fifths). Lesser Verde's armed forces serve entirely under the admiralty of the Navy and indeed the Fleet is by far the largest service component with only a single battalion strong Presidential Guards force remaining quasi-independent (though still under the command of the Admiral).

Lesser Verdean Naval Order of Battle

High Command

The Confederate Navy is commanded by the Admiral of the Navy, who reports directly to the President of the Confederacy. Under the Admiral is the High Command composed the Commodores and Captains of the component commands as well as the Captain-General of the Presidential Guards. After that command falls to ship's captains, battalion commanders, and aerial commanders. There is currently no general staff to establish operational doctrine for the Confederate Navy, which instead relies heavily on the competence of the Admiral, or barring that, the initiative and creativity of the commanders in individual units.