Dzean Armed Forces

Dzean Armed Forces
Founded	1887; 135 years ago
Current form	1906; 116 years ago
Service branches	Royal Dzean Army Royal Dzean Airforce Royal Dzean Navy Royal Special Operations Command Dzean Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Effort Legion
Headquarters	Łʻysxḿoˮniq, Dzeia
Leadership
Commander-in-chief	Tsotʻaan Łʻysxalx̣
Chief of Staff	General X̱uˮałok
Personnel
Military age	18
Conscription	12 months
Active personnel	115,000
Reserve personnel	275,000
Expenditure
Budget	$2.69 billion (2022)
Percent of GDP	3.7%
Industry
Domestic suppliers	Ńax̣ʻtuniq Puçx̣uḳan
Foreign suppliers	Distan Brennus Sodor and Seljaryssk Etrius Midribbonia
Related articles
History	First Dzean Army Second Dzean Army Military history of Dzeia
Ranks	Dzean Military Ranks

The Dzean Armed Forces are the military forces of Dzeia and collective term for the joint forces that comprise it. It is tasked with protecting the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Dze Confederation. Defined as the Standard Configuration, it is comprised of four branches and one joint branch, that being the DPHEL; in the case of war, this branch, as well as the Border Troops and the National Emergency Management Agency can be integrated into the armed forces structure. The General Staff of the Dzean Armed Forces is the highest professional military management organization of the state military organization and operates independently from the Ministry of Defence (Dzeia), its government controlled parent body. The official holiday of their military is the Day of Sabres on July 17th.

History

Earlier confederations

Main article: Dzeii military tactics and organization

As a unified state, the modern Confederation can trace its origins and early organization from the first two confederations, which both had independent developments in tactics, logistics and army organization. Of these developments, most were started by the first Tsotʻaan of the Dzeoi, Qułʻaq the Lighting, who would, upon his proclamation as Tsotʻaan in 7564 a.C., organize army units into units of vigesimal size with decimal halves to optimize the army's mobility and coordination; this date is also the symbolic birth date of the modern Armed Forces, as the Alx̣tsʻan clan held onto the core Military Traditions of Qułʻaq since their inception, its rulers being his direct descendants.

With such a system, the first two confederations enjoyed a great advantage in flexibility, allowing their armies to take on much larger forces and win in many of these occasions. Alongside this, ancient dzeii armies were organized into specialized units, oftenly using the innate advantages of its clans' militaries to optimize their effectiveness; the employment allied auxiliary forces to complement their weakpoints, hiring siege engineers, infantry or experts from their allied or vassal states, was also common practice.

The confederations or their successor states almost never used naval power however, limiting themselves to using the canoes of coastal tribes for limited landing operations or small scale raiding, with mannish entities being more dedicated to such endeavours than the dzeoi, some of which they would hire to their service.

Ł̣oqʻł̣eeq's reforms (1807-1827)

During the rule of Tʻaan Ł̣oqʻł̣eeq (1807-1827), he would face the reignition of the conflicts with several human entities encroaching on his land, his own father and grandfather dying prematurely due to conflict, which would lead to him improving upon the system of his ancestor, complimenting the vigesimal organization with a standarization of weaponry and of regiments; although attempted in previous eras, the constant warfare and size of many of the dzeii entities had made such endeavor near impossible after the fall of the First Confederation. The Alx̣tsʻani warriors would be organized into companies of Light and Heavy cavalry, the former being equipped with bows, spears and sabres, while the latter sported bows, maces, axes and lances; although greatly improving the clan's combat capabilities as it allowed the dze to deal with multiple types of enemy forces at once. Due to the small size of his forces, however, it would prove insufficient to fully defeat its opponents, with Ł̣oqʻł̣eeq falling in battle against a combined mannish force in 1827 that greatly weakened the clan, for his son X̣ṭeḿł̣oqʻ was merely a teenager at the time.

Xanaaq̇ut's era (1828-1964)

During the early years of his rule, before he became known as Xanaaq̇ut, X̣ṭeḿł̣oqʻ would employ his father's model to continue the war that he had inherited from him. Integrating his wife's clan, the Nuł̣ńtʻe, into the system in 1830, he would then expand upon it by breaking the previous model of clans specializing in warfare, instead choosing to merge them to increase the overall size of the available forces. Such coordinated efforts would lead the allied tribes to many victories between 1830 and 1865, when they finally managed to subdue most of their mannish enemies into a peace treaty.

After the Alx̣tsʻani Genocide of 1868, however, the following two decades were spent recovering as much strength as possible, being forced to retreat deep into mountain valleys, and expanding the alliance system. After winning a victory in 1887, starting what became known as Xanaaq̇ut's War, the clan would soon gain not just allies, but tributaries, with the Nuł̣ńtʻe officially subordinating themselves to him, with many clans following their example by 1888 when the Thuhaqi, Nazearites, Gholar and Yeng Kingdoms were defeated by his coalition, which would afterwards proclaim him Tsotʻaan in 1892. The following fourteen years would see him consolidate his rule, with each new clan submitted to him becoming part of his system, with Light and Heavy Cavalry and Infantry being the three main pillars of the Dzeii Armed Forces for the rest of his rule.