Fuso Armed Forces

Fuso Armed Forces
扶桑軍隊
Current appearance of the Armed Forces
Founded	July 12, 1950
Service branches	Fuso Army Fuso Navy Fuso Air Force
Headquarters	Naramaki, Edo, Fuso
Leadership
Commander-in-Chief	Riko Hayashida
Minister of Defence	Shirayuchi Mayumi
Chief of Defence	Admiral Ino Matoko
Personnel
Military age	18
Conscription	Not enforced since 1953
Available for military service	49,270,143 males, age 16–49, 47,889,230 females, age 16–49
Fit for military service	42,389,270 males, age 16–49, 40,928,770 females, age 16–49
Reaching military age annually	892,201 males, 693,478 females
Active personnel	611,000 personnel (2020)
Reserve personnel	377,000 personnel (2020)
Expenditure
Budget	$232 Billion (2020)
Percent of GDP	2.6%
Industry
Domestic suppliers	Hitsubushi Homakatsu Hitsubishi Heavy Industries Samurai Armories Fuso Steel Works Kitachi Ltd. Takasaki Heavy Industries Omitomo Heavy Industries Kai-Higushi Industries Howa Fikon Haikin Industries Four Leaves Technologies Ayasuki Armories Kisakuri Aerospace Halcyon Aerospace
Foreign suppliers	Amerrian Federation Asceria Swissland Gallia Schweden Deutschmagne Sudentor

The Fuso Armed Forces (扶桑軍隊 Fusō-Guntai), or FAF, occasionally referred to as the Fusoese Army, are the unified military forces of Fuso that were established in 1950, and are controlled by the Ministry of Defense. They consist of the Army, Navy and Air Force. The Fuso Armed Force is the successor of the dissolved Imperial Fusoese Army. The role of the armed forces is to ensure the integrity of Fuso's sovereignty and territorial integrity while participating frequently in peacekeeping and disaster relief operations. The armed forces are under the supervision and control of the Ministry of Defense, of which they answer directly to the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces being the Prime Minister of Fuso.

The dissolution of the Imperial Army required a national, more organized framework for a successor due to the former's influence over the government. The creation of the armed forces comes in a time where international tensions were at its highest in the late 1950s, with the armed forces formally participating in international crises since the early 1970s. By the end of the 20th century, and coupled with a dramatic increase of developments over issues with Khonshun and other nations alike, Fuso possessed a larger military against the pacifist proposals of the government.

Although the military participates primarily in peacekeeping and disaster relief operations, it has since participated in many international conflicts such as the Bashari War in 1994, where it dispatched over 10,000 troops as part of a larger multinational coalition. The Fuso Armed Forces are some of the best equipped military force in the world, backed by the nation's domestic arms and weapons industry.

History

Early Development

The Fuso Armed Forces was found in July 12, 1950, with its military structure mostly based from the Amerrian Federation. As the Armed Forces are set to integrate the current personnel of the TNSF and volunteers, it's first and foremost deployment was on the Khoshun War, where it contributed a limited set of troops only for the task of defending ICON and Amerrian Forces from North Khoshun. Notable victories with Fusonese troops were known in the armed forces' history despite their role in the war. Participation ended just after an armistice was declared, and upon the Armed Forces Review of 1955, it was decided that the government must take steps to increase the country's military strength in order to boost confidence and maintain a force that can drive out aggressors invading Fuso.

The Post-War Economic Miracle in the 1960s dramatically increased the government's opportunity to step up the process of the country's military to improve. Aging military equipment, especially with most of them from the Intercontinental War, called for a massive improvement. Domestic manufacturing companies, with most coming from its Imperial predecessors, began developing weapons for Fuso's military. Ranging from infantry weaponry to tanks and warships, with aircraft mostly coming from the Amerrian Federation and Britannia. When the People's Republic of Huang tested nuclear weapons in the mid-1960s, the Armed Forces Review of 1967 came to recommend that Fuso must have nuclear deterrent capabilities to maintain in protecting the country and encourage it's more hostile, nuclear neighbor to reconsider. The review's recommendation did not come into effect and instead went to a proposal by a defensive deterrence to wither the enemy's nuclear weapons to strike major Fusonese cities. The ATECS Ballistic Defense System played a pivotal part in the 80s, where it was later implemented to many missile destroyers by the early 90s up to the present. To ready a major reserve that composed of civilians ready for any conflict, a volunteer-only reserve unit was formed.

Structure

The Prime Minister is the commander-in-chief of the Fuso Armed Forces. The military runs from the Prime Minister to the cabinet-level Minister of Defense of the Fusoese Ministry of Defense.

Both the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense is advised by the Chief of Staff, Joint Staff. The Joint Staff includes a Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chief of Staff, Joint Staff, the Vice Chief of Staff, Joint Staff, an Administrative Vice Chief of Staff, as well as numerous departments and special staffs. Each service branch is headed by their respective Chiefs of Staff; the Chief of Staff of the Fuso Army, the Chief of Staff of the Fuso Navy, and the Chief of Staff of the Fuso Air Force.

The Chief of Staff, Joint Staff, a four star General or Admiral, is the highest-ranking military officer in the Fuso Armed Forces and is the head of the Operational Authority over the Fuso Armed Forces. executing orders of the Minister of Defense with directions from the Prime Minister. The Chief of Staff, Joint Staff supervises the service branches operations and would assume command in the event of a war. Any foreign or domestic attacks, deemed to be too much for civil authority to handle, allows limited intervention and deployment of the armed forces under the Chief of Staff, Joint Staff supervision, with directions still taken from the Prime Minister.

The chain of Operational Authority runs from the Chief of Staff, Joint Staff to the Commanders of the several Operational Commands. Each service branches Chiefs of Staff (FGF, FN, FAF) have administrative control over their own services.

Military Branches

• Fuso Ground Force
• Fuso Navy
• Fuso Air Force

Budget

The current budget of Fuso's Armed Forces is roughly 2.7% of its GDP. Approximately around $240-$260 billion dollars, the third largest in the world. The focus on the budget is mainly on developing newer military technologies, manufacturing of naval and air assets, modernization, imports of military equipment. An extra of the budget is also spent on veterans affairs and military maintenance. Historically, the budget of the armed forces maintained only 1% of it's GDP, but after a series of negotiations within the diet, the military budget must not reach beyond 3% of the country's GDP.

Personnel

Personnel in Service

Component	Military	Enlisted	Officer	Civilian
Fuso Army	422,000	335,000	78,000	184,000
Fuso Navy	94,000	70,470	23,500	157,760
Fuso Air Force	105,000	65,230	19,770	133,770
Total Active	611,000	470,700	162,730	475,460
Fuso Army Reserve	261,000	206,080	62,920	0
Fuso Navy Reserve	50,600	47,600	13,000	0
Fuso Air Force Reserve	66,400	51,850	13,250	0
Civilian Reserve Unit	0	0	0	370,000
Total Reserves	377,000			370,000
Total (Civilians/Both Active and Reserves)	988,000			845,530

Defense Policy

In recent years, several changes were made in the Defense Policy of the military, especially in the subject of defending the country from foreign aggression. Several incursions, namely on the southern islands has created security concerns on the defensive and security capabilities of the armed forces. Increasing confidence of the People's Republic of Huang, and several developments from North Khoshun has created a severe state of security in Aegia.

Technological developments allowed Fuso to keep up with most of it's western counterparts, especially in the Air Force and Navy branches. New technologies introduced in naval warships and aircraft allowed the country to increase it's strength and range to respond anywhere within it's territories, and if needed, respond beyond the country's maritime and aerial borders.

Interventionist Policy

The policy remained controversial due to increasing domestic pressure on both costs and manpower usage. Fuso has only responded to a few conflicts across the world, and if so, most of it's deployments were rather limited in security, supplies and peacekeeping. The only time it did play a military role was during the Bashir War and the more recent conflict in Alkenia, the Thorn Wars, which remained active since 2010.

Military involvement across the world was only limited to peacekeeping missions due to domestic pressure, although the need for such military action was only then required should the interests of the country demanded it, and that the public could no longer guarantee to trust it's allies such as Amerria, to solve the issues of other nations.

Fuso backed several nations and factions, especially those that significantly contributed to the interests of it's policies. Namely for delivering international rights such as democracy. Though this too brought controversy, there were less than harsh responses from domestic factions in Fuso to oppose this. Lethal aid however, was only granted to a fewer factions, including the Makanba Rebel Forces in Alkenia during the Thorn Wars.

Recruitment and conditions of service

The Fuso Armed Forces has some of the largest number of personnel in Aegia. Being the fifth largest military force in terms of personnel. The large number of reserves is attributed to Fuso's Article 10 of it's Constitution, and most volunteers comes from families with historical ties to old Imperial heritage. In 2016 however, most volunteers joined in due to being a more easy option to earn salary, especially men, who used most of their salary to support their younger families, organizations or even their personal hobbies.

Joining the Fuso Armed Forces follows rules and regulations of most Western countries, mainly from the Amerrian Federation. Men and Women joining their branch of their choosing must be at the legal age of 18. Recruits aged around 16 to 17 must have permission from both the recruit's parents and their regional office to enter the armed forces.