Acrean Armed Forces
Royal Acrean Armed Forces | |
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Reichsväret Reichswehr Kongelige Forsvaret | |
Founded | 1432 |
Service branches | Royal Acrean Army Royal Acrean Air Force Royal Acrean Navy |
Headquarters | Trier |
Leadership | |
King | Friedrich Leopold III |
Minister of Defence | Manfred Kierkegaard |
Field Marshal | Jürgen von Edel |
Personnel | |
Military age | 17 |
Conscription | Unenforced, 18 |
Available for military service | 72.8 million males, age 16-40, 71.5 million females, age 16-40 |
Fit for military service | 66.9 million males, age 16-40, 66.8 million females, age 16-40 |
Reaching military age annually | 13.3 million males, 13.1 million females |
Active personnel | 1,325,496 personnel |
Reserve personnel | 801,503 personnel |
Expenditure | |
Budget | 388.598.613.390₤ ($456,688,600,244) in 2019 |
Percent of GDP | 3.8% |
The Royal Acrean Armed Forces (Nordisk: Reichsväret) encompass the Army, Navy, Air Force, and to an extent the national gendarmerie of the Kingdom of Acrea which collectively are responsible for the defence of the Acrean state and its overseas territories and dependencies. They also serve to promote Acrea's wider interests, support international peacekeeping efforts, and support humanitarian operations. They are headed officially by the King or Queen acting as commander-in-chief, but the constitution has delegated de facto authority over the military to the Chancellor. Acrea has the largest defence budget in Tyran by total amount, though not by percentage of its GDP, and constitutes the fourth largest military by number of personnel.
The military has played a central role in Acrean affairs since the creation of the modern Acrean state's first standing army in 1432, which is also considered to be the founding date of the Armed Forces. It has seen numerous conflicts involving the region's great powers since its founding, including numerous wars with Acrea's neighbouring Eracuran states over the course of nearly six centuries. Numerous and repeated victories in these conflicts allowed Acrea to establish itself as one of the region's leading military and economic powers, a status which is retained to the present-day.