Polarussian Military
The Polarussian People’s National Army (PPNA) is the armed forces of the Republic of Polarus. Polarus has a large and reasonably well-equipped military to counter foreign and domestic threats. The People's National Army include ground forces, an air force, navy, and an air defense command.
The National Police (Civis Politia), a paramilitary body, is used mainly as a police force in rural areas.
The army is under the control of the president, who also is minister of National Defense.
The Armed Forces of Polarus comprise:
- Polarussian People's National Army
- Polarussian Navy
- Polarussian Air Force
- Territorial Air Defense Force
Regular military forces are composed of conscripts; all Polarussian men are required to do a year and a half of military service.
Military forces are supplemented by a 150,000-member National Police and 200,000-member Metropolitan police force under the Ministry of the Interior. Military intelligence, recognized to have played a major political role, was t reorganized in the late 1980s and early 1990s into today's Regio de Exploratio et Securitas (Department of Intelligence and Security, RES). The RES and its counter-espionage branch, assumed a leading role in the fight against the Islamist insurgency of the 1990s through a number of its own special forces units, as well as by establishing joint task force commands which assumed control over specialized military and police units.