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{{Infobox national military
|country                  = Charnea
|name                    = Charnean Army
|native_name              = {{noitalic|ⵉⵖⵔⵓⴷⴰⵏ ⵞⴰⵔⵏⴰⵏ ⴰⵊⵁⴰⵏⴰⵏ}}</br>Iɤrudan Charnan Ajhanan
|image                    = [[File:CharArmy.png|200px]]
|caption                  = Flag of the Charnean Army
|image2                  =
|caption2                =
| founded                = {{Start date and age|1921|10|1|df=yes}}
|current_form            = 2023
|disbanded                =
|motto                    =
|branches                = Central Army<br>[[Desert Rangers|Ranger Corps]]<br>Air Corps<br>[[Public Safety Force (Charnea)|Public Safety Force]]
|headquarters            = [[Agnannet]]
<!-- Leadership -->
|commander-in-chief      = {{nowrap|[[Khyar Aziouel]]}}
|commander-in-chief_title = Commander-in-chief
|commander                = General [[Rezkou Goma]]
|commander_title          = Chief-of-Staff
<!-- Manpower -->
|age                      = 16
|conscription            = None
|active                  = {{unbulleted list
  | {{nowrap|330,000}}<br />{{nowrap|&nbsp;'''∟''' 210,000 Central Army}}<br />{{nowrap|&nbsp;'''∟''' 100,000 Air Corps}}<br />{{nowrap|&nbsp;'''∟''' 7,000 Ranger Corps}} <br />{{nowrap|&nbsp;'''∟''' 13,000 civilian contractors}}}}
|ranked                  =
|reserve                  = {{unbulleted list
  | {{nowrap|160,000}}<br />{{nowrap|&nbsp;'''∟''' 90,000 Public Safety Force}}<br />{{nowrap|&nbsp;'''∟''' 50,000 Border Guards}}<br />{{nowrap|&nbsp;'''∟''' 20,000 civilian contractors}}}}
|paramilitary            =
<!-- Financial -->
|amount                  = $30&nbsp;billion (2023)
|percent_GDP              = 5% (2023)
<!-- Industrial -->
|domestic_suppliers      =
|foreign_suppliers        = [[Mutul]] <br/> [[Elatia]] <br/> [[Onekawa-Nukanoa]]
<!-- Related articles -->
|ranks                    = [[Charnean Army#Ranks|See Ranks]]
}}


The '''Charnean Army''' ({{wp|Tamashek}}: ⵉⵖⵔⵓⴷⴰⵏ ⵞⴰⵔⵏⴰⵏ ⴰⵊⵁⴰⵏⴰⵏ, ''Iɤrudan Charnan Ajhanan'', '''ICA''') is the combined military force of the [[Charnea|Charnean]] state comprising both {{wp|Land warfare|ground-based}} and {{wp|Aerial warfare|aerial}} armed forces. Chief of State [[Khyar Aziouel]] serves as the formal commander-in-chief of the ICA, while its day to day operations are overseen by Chief of the General Staff [[Rezkou Goma]]. The current structure of the ICA is the result of a series of sweeping military reforms that took place following the death of its former supreme commander [[Martuf Lamine]] in May of 2023 and the ensuing political turmoil which took place within the Army and the broader state defense apparatus. Reforms included a reorganization of the ICA {{wp|general staff}} and high command from the ground up, a significant reduction of the officer corps and a consolidation of forces into more centralized command and logistics structures. The reformed ICA has a three-pronged structure for its combat arms, made up of the Central Army which comprises the maneuver warfare elements of the Army, the Ranger Corps which encompasses its special forces and asymmetric warfare capabilities, and the Air Corps which acts as the air wing of the ICA. Recent reforms within the civilian government saw a push to disband many of the civilian law enforcement organs which had operated in most parts of Charnea for decades, replacing them with a fourth branch of the Army to be known as the ''Allon Arraxmat Ajhan'' or [[Public Safety Force (Charnea)|Public Safety Force]] which is to double as a reservist force for the rest of the military to draw upon in times of crisis. The recently reconstituted General Staff, the newly established AAA, and many other organs of the ICA are expected to suffer in the short and mid-term thanks to inexperienced officers and the disorganization which follows blanket military and police reforms. Nevertheless, national leaders remain confident that the ICA's strength, which they believe lies with its experienced non-commissioned officers, has been kept intact despite the reorganization.
==Defense doctrine==
As a desert nation entirely engulfed within the expanse of the [[Ninva]], Charnea's production and population statistics face ever-present downward pressures due to the inter-related bottlenecks of water scarcity and insufficient production of foodstuffs which impose an upper limit on the size of the population and industrial base the Charnean economy can support. Although a savvy development scheme has proven capable of extending Charnea's limits, the persistent economic constraints the nation faces have made it unfeasible for it to raise the massive military force that would be necessary to actively patrol and defend the 12,000 kilometers of external frontiers against Charnea's many neighbors. However, the landscape of Charnea forces the population and the national industry to concentrate in six relatively compact regions scattered across the country, interlinked by the [[Xallalbatan|Great Backbone]] railway. Defending these six urban-industrial zones separated by hundreds of kilometers of desert is a challenging proposition but one that is more manageable than defending the entire ''de jure'' territory of Charnea. The Charnean national defense state has been built around a strategy of {{wp|Defence in depth|deep defense}}, prioritizing the capacity to delay the enemy, inflict casualties and threaten enemy logistics over holding ground or carrying out {{wp|Breakthrough (military)|breakthrough}} operations.
The modern Charnean Army, however, is first and foremost a counter-insurgency force. Drawing from the lessons of Charnea's 20th century wars, the defense state has recognized that the threat to Charnean national integrity does not necessarily take the form of the conventional military force of a rival nation but rather the capacity of neighboring states to influence the minority groups which inhabit the Charnean periphery. Separatist movements have indeed proven to be the single greatest foe of the Charnean Army in terms of the number of battles and conflicts fought against such forces, while the prospect of a direct invasion by a foreign enemy seeking to cut off or capture the Charnea core regions remains a dire but unlikely possibility. Air mobility and reconnaissance have been the key capabilities on which the Charnean Army has placed emphasis when it comes to its counter-insurgency operations, which have been built around the Charnean {{wp|Air assault|vertical envelopment}} tactic known as [[Ahoyy]]. Another adaptation of the Charnean Army to the difficulties of counter-insurgency has been to adopt the asymmetric warfare tactics of their enemies, giving rise to the [[Desert Rangers|Desert Ranger Corps]] which serves as an independent hybrid intelligence-covert action arm of the ICA focused on combating insurgent forces.
While the [[Agala War]] demonstrated that the Charnean Army needed to adapt to face the most immediate threats of internal guerillas rather than foreign militaries, the [[Ninvite War]] proved that counter-insurgency could not be disjointed and treated as separate from conventional warfare against an opposing military. The resulting consolidation of counter-insurgency and conventional warfare gave rise to the modern Charnean {{wp|Hybrid warfare|Hybrid Defense Doctrine}}. The aim of the modern Charnean Army is to be above all a flexible force, both in the conventional sense of utilizing various platforms to achieve superior mobility and outmaneuver the enemy, and in the broader strategic sense of using every available avenue to apply pressure on the enemy no matter how unconventional. The concrete results of the Hybrid Defense Doctrine have been to reform the post-Ninvite War ICA to seek, to the extent that is practical, to procure equipment and train in tactics which can be put to use regardless of the nature of the opposing forces. In this way, the doctrine directly informs the organizational structure and material characteristics of the Charnean Army.
==Manpower==
The nature of the manpower available to the military has a profound effect on the military culture of the Charnean Army. Since the industrialization of Charnea over the 1920s, the manpower of the Charnean Army has been overwhelmingly drawn from the rural [[Tenerians|Tenerian]] population known as Kel Ajama Tenerians or simply Ajamites. The Ajamites represent a subset of Tenerians who did not take part in the initial urbanization waves and retained the ancestral nomadic customs of the Tenerians, and as a result did not benefit from the increases in standard of living that their urban cousins enjoyed through the success of Charnean industry. Lacking access to education and job opportunities, the Kel Ajama became an economically depressed demographic and as a result have flocked to the Charnean Army as a means to make a decent living and escape poverty. On the other side of the equation, the Charnean Army sought out Ajamite recruits over others as they were both pre-adapted to operations in the desert environment through their nomadic upbringing, and would accept a more modest rate of pay compared to their urban counterparts. Ajamite soldiers also have the tendency to stay in the Army for far longer periods than urban Tenerians as military service is perceived as a career unto itself rather than a temporary step to develop skills or a more lucrative career in the civilian sector. The result has been a general militarization of the Kel Ajama and by the same token the infusion of the austere culture of the nomadic desert-dwellers into the Charnean Army. Ajamites, who make up just 10% of the overall population, account for roughly 75% (aprox. 367,000) of the Army's servicemembers. This figure in turn represents 4 out of every 5 Ajamite males between the ages of 16 and 45.
The quarter of the Charnean Army which is not Ajamite can be further subdivided into a urban Tenerians and a multitude of non-Tenerian minority groups. Urban Tenerians generally fill the more technically demanding specialist roles in the Army which require extensive education and familiarity with specialized technological equipment. These positions normally correspond to low to mid-level officer ranks, making the urban Tenerians on average the highest paid demographic contingent of the Army. On the other end of the spectrum are the non-Tenerians, namely Charnean {{wp|Arabs|Gharibs}} and {{wp|Copts|Deshrians}}, who fill the lowest paid ranks of paramilitary auxiliary units of the Charnean Army. The Ranger Corps is predominantly composed of non-Tenerian manpower, although it is a relatively small formation of just 7,000 total members.
The general mobilization that accompanied the escalation of the Ninvite War represents the only time in Charnea's modern history that a system of conscription has been put into practice. Under normal conditions, even during a mobilization for counter-insurgency operations, the Charnean Army operates as an effectively volunteer-only force thanks in no small part to the disproportionate numbers of Ajamite volunteers available for service. The 16-45 demographic, considered to be military-aged by the Charnean Army, is nevertheless required to register with the ICA Mobilization Office in case of the need for a mass mobilization in an emergency. However, those inscribed in the Mobilization Officer registers are not required to to preform any compulsory service. Charnean doctrine with regards to mobilization primarily relies on the use of standing police units and paramilitaries as a pool of reserve manpower to get the Army through the initial stages of a conflict and buy time for civilians to be mobilized and receive adequate training before being sent as reinforcements to the Army. 
==Ranks==
===Commissioned Ranks===
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|- style="background-color:#CCCCCC; width: 100%"
! !! OF-10 !! OF-9 !! OF-8 !! OF-7 !! OF-6 !! OF-5 !! OF-4 !! OF-3 !! OF-2 !! OF-1 !! {{wp|Officer candidate|OA}}
|- style="text-align:center;"
|'''{{wp|Tifinagh}}<br />{{wp|Latin script|Latin}}<br />Equivalent'''||ⴰⵍⵖⴰⵍⵉⵎ<br />''Alɣalim''<br />Martial|| ⵣⴻⴳⵔⴻⵜ ⴰⵎⵏⴻⵔ<br />''Zegret Amner''<br />Major General || ⵎⵏⴻⵔ<br />''Amner''<br />General || ⴰⵎⴰⴷⵀⴰⵍ ⴰⵎⵏⴻⵔ<br />''Amadhal Amner''<br />Lieutenant General || See OF-5 || ⴰⵍⴽoⵍⵏⴻⵍ<br />''Alkolnel''<br />Colonel || ⴷⴰⵡⴰⵍⴽoⵍⵏⴻⵍ<br />''Dawalkolnel''<br />Sub-Colonel || ⵎⴰⵙⵙⵉ ⵏ'ⴰⵍⵍⴰⵖ<br />''Massi N'Allaɣ''<br />Major || ⴽⴰⵒⵉⵜⴰⵏ<br />''Kapitan''<br />Captain || ⴰⵎⴰⴷⵀⴰⵍ<br />''Amadhal''<br />Lieutenant || ⴰⵙⵓⵀⵓ<br />''Asuhu''<br />Aspirant
|}
===Enlisted Ranks===
{| style="border:1px solid #8888aa; background-color:#f7f8ff; padding:5px; font-size:95%; margin: 0px 12px 12px 0px; style="text-align: center;"
|- style="background-color:#CCCCCC; width: 100%"
! !! OR-9 !! OR-8 !! OR-7 !! OR-6 !! OR-5 !! OR-4 !! OR-3 !! OR-2 !! OR-1
|- style="text-align:center;"
|'''{{wp|Tifinagh}}<br />{{wp|Latin script|Latin}}<br />Equivalent'''||  ⵣⴻⴳⵔⴻⵜ ⴰⵊⵓⵜⴰⵏ<br />''Zegret Ajutan''<br />Adjutant-Major || ⴰⵊⵓⵜⴰⵏ<br />''Ajutan''<br />Adjutant || ⴷⴰⵡⴰⵊⵓⵜⴰⵏ<br />''Dawajutan''<br />Sub-Adjutant || ⵣⴻⴳⵔⴻⵜ ⴽⵓⵎⴰⵏⴷⵉ<br />''Zegret Kumandi''<br />Sergeant-Major || ⴽⵓⵎⴰⵏⴷⵉ<br />''Kumandi''<br />Sergeant || ⴻⵖⴰⴼ<br />''Eɤaf''<br />Corporal || See OR-1 || See OR-1 || ⵉⵙⴻⵔⴷⵓⵙⵙⴰ<br />''Iserdussa''<br />Soldier
|}
[[Category:Charnea]]
[[Category:Militaries (Ajax)]]

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