Zacapine Army
| Zacapine Army | |
|---|---|
| ππ°π¬πΏπ¨ππΏπ― ππ°πΏπ°πΉπ¨π·π¬π»π Yaoquizque Zacapiyotl | |
| Active | Since 1904 |
| Country |  Zacapican |
| Type | Army |
| Role | Land warfare |
| Size |
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| Part of | Zacapine Armed Forces |
| Commanders | |
| Commander-in-Chief | Zianya Xcaret |
| Secretary of Defense | Chicacua Xiomara |
| Chief of the General Staff | Nezahualcoyotl Amanaztli |
| Army Chief of Staff | Hladimi Qalchic |
The Zacapine Army (Nahuatl: ππ°π¬πΏπ¨ππΏπ― ππ°πΏπ°πΉπ¨π·π¬π»π, Yaoquizque Zacapiyotl) is the consolidated land warfare component of the Zacapine Armed Forces, encompassing the professional contractors, conscripted forces and Guard forces of each Zacapine constituent republic. The Army has a relatively small peacetime force of 50,000, the majority of which are conscripts completing an initial tour of duty or reservists recalled for a period of refresher training. In case of war, the Zacapine Army is organized to quickly mobilize its large reservist components to reach a total of 250,000 service members under wartime mobilization conditions. This reservist heavy structure of the Army is a consequence of the Zacapine military doctrine of Navy primacy which establishes the Naval formations as the primary offensive arm of the military and designates the Army as a defensive force. The large numbers of servicemembers at the disposal of the Zacapine Army's mobilization system are intended to deter and repulse any invasion of the Zacapine homeland by a hostile power, having little to no capability for a rapid offensive campaign or invasion of their own.
Role
The principal military planners and thinkers in the Zacapine hierarchy generally do not consider Zacapican to be under serious threat of an imminent invasion by its neighbors. This view is supported by the experiences of past wars in Oxidentale which have shown the mountainous and arid regions of the continent's interior in general and the border zone of northern Zacapican in particular to be generally hostile to the conduct of large scale military operations, making a full scale enemy invasion over this border an unlikely event. However, this same consideration has meant that any army of the Zacapines will likewise have great difficulty carrying out an offensive campaign against any of its neighbors over land. Consequently, the Zacapine Army has settled into the role of supporting a potential amphibious offensive by augmenting the manpower of any Marine detachment, deterring a hostile amphibious attack through their numbers and presence at or near the vital port cities of Zacapican, as well as preparing for any localized border war or skirmish that may occur on the border. Since the time of the Zacapine Revolution, much of the Army's manpower has been occupied primarily with internal security in the form of the Rural National Guard, the precursor to today's Republican Guards, leaving the conventional warfare capabilities of the Army a secondary consideration.
Following a series of reforms in the 1960s accompanied by a general modernization initiative across all of the Armed Forces, the Zacapine Army was overhauled and much of its active professional force was disbanded in favor of the reservist system it uses today. Because of the reduced role of the Army in the Zacapine military, the maintenance of a large fully staffed professional force in peacetime was considered to be a gross misallocation of valuable resources. However, Zacapine military officials did not want to drastically reduce the size of the Army in case war should emerge. The primary concearn was that an Army cut down to a minimum size would not be able to provide auxiliary manpower to an expeditionary deployment of the Marines in an intervention elsewhere in the world. The possibility of a direct invasion of the Zacapine homeland by a hostile power was considered a relatively remote possibility due to the perceived power of the Zacapine Navy which would protect the homeland in such a scenario, but the great threat such an attack would bring to a country whose population and industry is concentrated along the coasts could not be entirely ignored. The result was the reservist system, in which a small professional force made up almost entirely of a training establishment and civilian maintenance personnel would perpetually train and exercise a body of conscripts and reservists such that in case of war, the Zacapine Army would be able to mobilize a large body of relatively well trained and prepared reservist forces in short order with minimal refresher training required. This would greatly reduce the sustainment costs of the Army during peacetime while satisfying the military's desire to maintain a sizable deterrent to invasion and a reserve of manpower to draw upon for other operations.