Negaran People's Republican Armed Forces

Negaran People's Republican Armed Forces
Tentara Nasional Negaraku
Seal of the Negaran People's Republican Armed Forces
Service branches	NPRAF Ground Forces NPRAF Navy NPRAF Air Forces
Headquarters	Kota Merdeka, Negara
Leadership
Commander-in-Chief	Jida Ambonta
Marshal of Negara	General Ida Widoyo
Manpower
Military age	16 years of age (voluntary)
Available for military service	353,794,000, age 16–45
Fit for military service	124,138,700, age 16–45
Active personnel	1,000,000
Reserve personnel	565,000
Expenditures
Budget	$191.5 billion
Percent of GDP	1.5% (FY14)
Industry
Domestic suppliers	NDTU
Foreign suppliers	Gaullica United States Other allies
Related articles
Ranks	NPRAF Ranks

The Negaran People's Republican Armed Forces is the military of Republic of Negara. In 2015, it compromised approximately 900,000 personnel, including the Negaran People's Republican Ground Forces, Negaran People's Republican Navy, and Negaran People's Republican Air Forces.

Mission

The mission of the Negaran People's Republican Armed Forces, as defined by Raharjo Gunturputra, first Head Director of Negara, includes

• The protection of Negara's sovereignty and territorial integrity
• Safeguarding Negara's national interests
• Contributing to the maintenance of an international state of peace
• and upholding the terms of the 1936 Constitution.

History

The NPRAF traces its lineage to the coalition of nationalist militias and deserting Berseri officers which coalesced into the Unified Nationalist Movement in southern Negara in 1895. After the First Negaran Civil War, the nationalist militias were re-organised to form the manpower basis of the NPRAF, while the Berseri officer corps was encouraged to remain in service for the Negaran armed forces. This allowed the fledgling state to quickly field a large army so as to deter foreign aggression. Fighting in the First Negaran Civil War Berseri forces shaped NRA doctrine to centre around mass mobilisation and under the direction of Budi Dianputra the NRA was also one of the first Coian armed forces to mechanise: by 1926, the Negaran Republican Army had over 600 light tanks in general service as support elements at the divisional level.

The Great War broadly proved Dianputra to be right: broad frontages and rapid mobilisation combined to simultaneously render Napoleonic strategy obsolete and preclude the mass use of fortifications, which were also useless to the Negaran forces in a strategic offensive. As a result, the Negaran Republican Army saw some of the greatest and easiest successes of the Great War, trouncing the Berseri Army as well as Gaullican expeditionary forces. The war was prolonged by the inability of the NPRAN to secure landing sites on the Hesian coast.

After the Great War, the Negaran Army underwent further mechanisation and modernisation with new postwar equipment as a part of a Phoney War arms race with Songguo. In 1951, the Negaran government announced the detonation of Negara's first nuclear bomb, and Negara has remained a nuclear weapons state with a nuclear triad ever since. It also conducted the Invasion of Hesia

The Negaran People's Republican Armed Forces was later involved in the Siamati Revolution where Siamati nationalists sought independence from Namkwon in a proxy war against Songhua. After securing victory in the Namkwon Emergency, the NPRAF emphasised its nuclear arsenal as the main means of national defence, leading ultimately to the Army's defeat in the Southwest Frontier War.

After the Army's defeat in the Southwest Frontier War, President Adi Pintaka implemented a number of reforms. Conscription was abolished in favour of a volunteer army, and higher standards were set for soldier and officer training with CDI assistance. In addition, throughout the 1990s, much-needed modernisation and digitalisation of Negaran Army equipment has taken place. The organization of the military has also been reformed, with operations at the division level de-emphasised in favour of the creation of a number of multi-purpose brigades, suitable for rapid reaction and international intervention purposes as well as direct military action, although the priority of the country's armed forces remains self-defence.

Organization

Negaran People's Republican Ground Forces

The Negaran People's Republican Ground Forces or Negaran Army can trace their origins back to the formation of the Berseri Army, a professional element of Berseri Empire's land forces under the direct command of the Emperor. After the First Negaran Civil War, the new Negaran government disbanded the provincial militias in favor of creating a centralized military force, whose commanders were chiefly recruited from the former Berseri Army. As of 2016, the Negaran Ground Forces retain a permanent presence in Siamat, as part of security arrangements with the Siamati government, and in Iyakasar on the part of the Iyakasari Republican Guard.