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Armed Forces of Rajyaghar
His Majesty's Armed Forces
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Motto	"Jai Maharaja" (Hail to the King)
Founded	1946
Service branches	Grand Army Royal Navy Royal Air Force
Headquarters	Military Joint Headquarters
Leadership
Monarch	Krishan VII
Defence Secretary	Payal Joshi
Chief of the Defence Staff	Field Marshal Rahul Sirasikar
Personnel
Military age	18-45 (55 for officers)
Conscription	1 year in regular service, 3 years in the reserves Or 24 months in public service
Active personnel	452,801
Reserve personnel	1,137,606
Expenditure
Budget	$15.3 billion
Percent of GDP	3.2%
Related articles
History	First Satrian War Second Satrian War Third Satrian War
Ranks	Ranks of HM Armed Forces

The Rajyani Armed Forces, officially called His Majesty's Armed Forces, are the military forces responsible for the defence of the Kingdom of Rajyaghar and exercise of the defence policy of the Central Union Government, including the promotion of Rajyani interests, supporting bilateral and multilateral operations and providing humanitarian aid.

The forces consist of three professional uniformed services: the Grand Army, the Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force. There are also numerous special services of the military which have unique and distinct mission objectives. The Royal Navy operates the specialised "Sarisra Squadron" which is a dedicated group of river ships tasked with patrolling the major rivers of Rajyaghar to prevent against smuggling and other illegal activities. The Grand Army maintains the "Marine Commando Group" (MCG), an elite corps within the army which is often tasked with conducting the most difficult of operations. The Royal Air Force operates the "Specialist Paratrooper Service" (SPS) which often works alongside the MCG in difficult operations.

The Monarch of Rajyaghar is the Supreme Commander in Chief of the armed forces, however, executive management of the armed forces is conducted on the Monarch's behalf by the Secretary of State for Defence, who leads the Ministry of Defence, with advice from the Premier and National Security Council. With a strength of over 450 thousand active personnel and a reserve force over 1.3 million, the Rajyani armed forces is one of the largest in Satria. The military budget is currently 3.2% of GDP, up from 2.5% in 2010.

History

Rajyani military history dates back several millennia with the first recorded militaries being from the Mahasanarikavas. From the Mahasanarikavas to the end of the Naratha Confederacy and beginning of the Colonial Era, the numerous polities and states that made up modern-Rajyaghar would employ their own armies and, in some cases, navies, ranging from the great Hatti Cavalry of Harringhata which repelled consistent invasions from Rathankot, to the Sanyukti Armada which ensured Sanyukti dominance in the northern waters of Satria.

During the Naratha Confederacy, the individual armies of the member states would slowly merge into a singular army. Originally starting off as a coalition of numerous armies, under the joint leadership of Sanyukt, Rathankot and Zulmat, the coalition was transformed into a singular army led by the Senpati; the Grand Army of the Confederacy. Due to Sanyukti dominance and expertese, the Sanyukti Raj was selected as the Senpati, a tradition that would continue on even when the role was transformed into that of the Chhtrapati (Emperor). The unity of the grand army relied heavily on the cooperation of the leaders of the Madhyarajyas. When XX became Chhtrapati in 1662, his immense popularity in the army and general peasantry enabled him to command the grandd army without much consultation from the leaders of the Madhyarajyas. His decisive leadership enabled the Confederacy to make huge gains during the Southern Expansion. However, his successors were never able to command as much respect or popularity, resulting in the return of the Madhyarajya leaders to prominence and the fracturing of the grand army back into a lose coalition. When the Confederacy fell to the Euclean powers, the grand army consisted only of armchair generals with the individual regiments returning to their member states.

With the fall of the sanyukti peninsula to Gaullica in 1844 resulted in the Gaullican colonial army taking over as the armed forces of the new Peninsula Colony. Throughout the remaining Madhyarajyas which now fell under the control of the Etrurian Colonial Empire, the armies were either completely disbanded, transformed into a police force or absorbed into the Corpo Ausiliario Coloniale della Satria; the Etrurian colonial army. The armies of those Madhyarajyas which failed to cooperate with Etruria saw their armies disbanded whilst those leaders who cooperated with the imperial regime and now held positions in the colonial administration, either saw their armies transformed into police forces and or absorbed into the Colonial Auxillary Corps. The Corps itself was led by Etrurian officers with Rajyanis only occupying officer ranks in the rarest of situations.

During the Great War, the Corpo Ausiliario Coloniale della Satria provided Etruria with approximately 250,000 troops which were deployed to protect the Etrurian Colonial Empire. The military training of the corps also revolutionised the corps, transforming the military practices of the rajyani warriors into the etrurian and euclean models; something that has continued post-independence. The Corps were also used to suppress anti-colonial riots. Following the Great War and the Legionary Reaction, the Etrurian Empire was replaced by the Greater Solarian Republic and the Etrurian Colonial Empire was placed under military administration. The new military administration was brutal in its crackdown of nationalist sentiments in the colonies resulting in growing anger amongst the ranks of the corps. Leading up to the Solarian War, more and more units of the Corpo Ausiliario Coloniale della Satria began to desert or even mutiny against the harsher GSR officers. When the Solarian War broke out, the Corps was greatly weakened and demoralised which led to numerous defeats. When the Coian Evacuation took place, the Corps collapsed and the leaders of the Madhyarajyas re-assembled their armies to defend against Ajahadyan invasion.

An SEAG artillery regiment during the Solarian War

In July 1945, with the GSR facing numerous defates, the Consular Senate, the consultative body set up by the Etrurians comprising of the leaders of the Madhyarajyas, signed the Chichar Accords which re-organised the Corpo Ausiliario Coloniale della Satria into the Satria Etruriana Army Group to be led by Krishan VI, the Prince of Sanyukt who was well-liked by the GSR and by his fellow Madhyarajya leaders. The Chichar Accords would also see the split of the colony with the south refusing to work with its former Etrurian masters and instead forming the Satrian Section of the Workers' International. With the Coian Evacuation fully underway, Krishan VI would lead the SEAG to defend the borders of northern Satria Etruriana. By Winter 1945, the GSR had abandoned all leadership of its colonial possessions and the Consular Senate was now negotiating with the Community of Nations on the independence and future of the northern colonial territory. By the end of the war, Krishan VI and the SEAG was able to successfully defend much of the territories of the northern Madhyarajyas of Satria Etruriana and the colony gained independence as the Kingdom of Rajyaghar. The SEAG would be transformed into the current Armed Forces of Rajyaghar.

Organisation

Operational Commands

The operational commands are the major subdivisions of the organisation of the armed forces. Notably, only the operational commands of the army adhere to the borders of the Administrative divisions of Rajyaghar. The commands of the air force are determined on a mix of geographical and state borders and naval commands are determined via maritime geography.

Army Commands

The Southern Army Command (maroon on map) is the largest operational command in the Army due to the insurgent groups within the southern states and the continued threat of an Ajahadyan invasion. For these reasons the Southern Army Command sees routine deployments to assist law enforcement and to present a physical presence of the military to deter insurgencies and invasion. The Pavitra Army Command (orange on map) is the mountainous command of the Royal Army and is specialised in mountain warfare.

Unlike the Army Commands, the borders of the Air Commands are drawn based on a combination of administrative borders and geographical regions. The Pavitra Mountain Range acts as the main dividing line between the north-western air commands and the south-eastern air commands. The South Eastern Air Command is the largest of the air commands and forms the first line of defence against an Ajahadyan invasion. The South Eastern Air Command and the Southern Army Command have a joint specialised subcommand called the Aegis (transl. Shield) which comprises several dedicated air and land units as well as mountainous and lowland artillery defence units which are dedicated to repelling any invasion from Ajahadya.

The Straits and Northern Naval Commands see constant deployments, monitoring and protecting shipping routes and protecting the integrity of Rajyani territorial waters. The Paridhi Naval Command only deploys for anti-piracy missions and bilateral and multilateral naval operations with allied navies. The north-eastern waters of the Aechelion Sea that fall under the remit of the Paridhi Naval Command are not routinely patrolled due to the routine deployment of Euclean naval powers in the region which protect the area from piracy and hostile actors.

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Flag of His Majesty's Armed Forces
Royal Grand Army Flag	Royal Navy Ensign	Royal Air Force Flag
Commander-in-Chief	Minister of Defence	Chief of the Defence Staff