Zacapine Armed Forces

Zacapine Armed Forces
𐐏𐐰𐐬𐐽𐐨𐐶𐐰𐑊𐐨𐑆𐐻𐑊𐐨 𐐄𐑊𐐬𐐽𐑋𐐯 𐐞𐐰𐐿𐐰𐐹𐐨𐐷𐐬𐐻𐑊 Yaochihualiztli Olochme Zacapiyotl
Seal of the Armed Forces
Motto	Onihuallihualoc ca mitl ca chimalli in onimacoc ca yaoyotl y notequiuh (I have been given the arrow and the shield, for war is my practice)
Founded	October 24th, 1924
Current form	September 1st, 1960
Service branches	Zacapine Army Zacapine Air Force Zacapine Navy
Headquarters	Yaoyotepec
Leadership
Tepachoani	Zianya Xcaret
Chief of the General Staff	Nezahualcoyotl Amanaztli
Personnel
Military age	18-40
Conscription	Yes
Reaching military age annually	(2020)

The Zacapine Armed Forces (Nahuatl: 𐐏𐐰𐐬𐐽𐐨𐐶𐐰𐑊𐐨𐑆𐐻𐑊𐐨 𐐄𐑊𐐬𐐽𐑋𐐯 𐐞𐐰𐐿𐐰𐐹𐐨𐐷𐐬𐐻𐑊, Yaochihualiztli Olochme Zacapiyotl) are the military forces of the United Zacapine Republics. It is consolidated into the Zacapine Army, the Zacapine Air Force and the Zacapine Navy. Each branch contains subordinate corps responsible for specific functions, such as the Marines or Coast Guard within the Navy or the Republican Guards within the Army. The Armed Forces are supplied by the state run military industry conglomerate Cuauhquetztia as well as specific foreign contractors, provisioning the military with all of its needs from the most basic to most sophisticated and complex. The overall command and administration of the Armed Forces and its three branches is located within the Yaoyotepec compound, a large administrative complex and military command bunker near Quitzapatzaro in the Autonomous Federal District in western Zacapican. Under the Zacapine constitution, the Armed Forces are formally commanded by the Tepachoani, currently Zianya Xcaret, and administered the Secretary of Defense Nezahualcoyotl Amanaztli. In practical terms, the de facto commander of the Armed Forces is the Chief of the General Staff appointed by the Secretary of Defense and the Tepachoani to preside over the day to day operations of the military and security forces.

History

The modern form of the Zacapine Armed Forces is finds its basis in the armies of the Zacapine Revolution, but would not appear in its recognizable modern organizational structure until the consolidation of armed groups under Zacapican's first Tepachoani, Xolotecatl Acuixoc. At the time of this foundation, at the turn of the 20th century and in the decades that followed, the disparate militias and armies of local warlords would be unified into the Zacapine Army and undergo standardization of structure and organization as well as a modernization of equipment under the Xolotecate era government. In order to pacify smouldering rebellion in the countryside, Xolotecatl also established the Rural National Guard to eliminate banditry, which would later be reformed into the Republican Guards which have been devolved into the state guard of each constituent Republic of Zacapican while remaining within the umbrella of the Zacapine Army and its command structure. The effort to rebuild the Zacapine high seas fleet from what few ships of the Great Heron fleet were not scuttled or lost during the revolution would draw on long after the end of the Xolotecate, beginning with the reconstruction of an ironclad force, proceeding to the launching of the first Zacapine capital ships and dreadnoughts and reaching its conclusion with the sweeping modernizations of the 1960s and 70s, which would see the advent of the modern carrier force that defines the Zacapine navy. The story of the Zacapine Air Force would not be one of reconstruction but rather of an original birth, as the minor balloon and airship scouting functions seen during the Revolutionary wars would develop organically into a fleet of combat aircraft as the technological development of the airplane progressed as in the rest of the world. The Zacapine Air Force would be brought into being in 1935, finally separated from the Army's command structure after the introduction of interceptor fighter aircraft which would usher in an era of aerial operations wholly independent from the actions of the ground forces.