People's Army of Workers and Peasants

People's Army of Workers and Peasants
Libriran PAWP Army flag
Founded	Febuary 20th 1896
Country	File:Libflag.png Librira
Allegiance	The People's United Republic of Librira
Type	Army
Role	National Defense, Peacekeeping, Aid
Size	250,000 personnel 3500 tanks
Part of	Libriran Secretariat of Defense
Motto(s)	Together to defend the future
Commanders
Premier	Ivan Gurov
Commissar of the PAWP	Vitalyi Federov

The People's Army of Workers and Peasants(Libriran: Народная армия рабочих и крестьян) also sometimes referred to as the PAWP, NARK or simply as the Libriran Army is the ground forces arm of the Libriran Armed Forces. It has approximately 250,000 personnel, 3500 tanks, as well as an arsenal of helicopters and other armored fighting vehicles. The PAWP is responsible for defending Libriran borders, providing military assistance to allies, and to maintain its defensive posture against various enemies.

History

The roots of the PAWP go back to the Revolution of 1894 when various towns and cities who participated in the revolution began to form guardsmen regiments to defend themselves, and factories earlier that formed Factory Guards troops. After the establishment of the Red-Union council in Akron, there militia's began to be reformed into better equipped and organized Rifle Divisions. With the formation of the People's United Republic however, there was a need to create a new unified military force as well, leading to the new PAWP to form, a synthesis of Socialist and Democratic ideas.

After its formation the PAWP initially struggled to establish itself. Although it had the manpower required thanks to the National Conscription, it had no infrastructure save for a few old Royal Army bases that had survived. Thus between 1900-1913 the Army embarked on a widespread construction campaign. New bases were constructed in most regions of the country to provide the infrastructure to defend in the event of a war. Most conscripts participated in this work, leading in the press, for the PAWP to be called the 'People's Army of Construction Workers'.

During the First Global War, Librira did not get involved, though the Army remained on alert during the conflict, due to the involvement of several nations in and near Corentia. After the war, when reports began to come to Librira on various new weapons and tactics developed during the war, such as tanks, modern artillery and the widespread deployment of SMGs and LMGs; the PAWP was alarmed at how far behind it was. At this point the PAWP only had the original Type-1 Rifle and several HMGs. It began started in 1920 a larger rearmament campaign, developing and adopting its first semi-automatic rifle, light machine gun, and sub-machine guns. Concurrently the PAWP founded a war college to train new young officers in modern warfare, a feature that had been revealed to be absent in war drills.

The Second Global war brought its greatest challenge to the PAWP, following a surprise attack by Dasmar and rushed redeployment of the army's nascent mechanized core, meant the army lost nearly 60% of the vehicles, 70% of their tanks, and thousands of men killed or captured, without slowing the enemies advance. Driven back into the interior steppes the PAWP bounced back, using mobile infantry, and artillery to eventually slow and stop the attackers, before eventually driving them back into their land, over the course of the next 5 years.

With the election of hardline Communists in 1950 and 1955, the focus of defense spending saw the PAWP's budget increase 3 times, in only 5 years. This money was used to further develop Libriran Arms industries, and to equip the army with the most modern MBTs and other equipment. Following the election of more conservative Daskinists and Syndicalists in 1995, the army's budget was greatly reduced and it downsized accordingly, as well as curtailing National Conscription.

In the modern era, the Libriran Army is fairly large, one of the largest in Corentia, though smaller than its past states. It maintains a modern arsenal of Helicopters, Artillery, and Tanks to fufill its modern missions and goals. The current PAWP focuses on fluid, mobile, units with an emphasis on firepower superiority.

Organization

The PAWP is organized at its highest level into fronts. These fronts are equivalent to army groups in other parts of the world and typically contain 3-5 armies. Fronts have are typically responsible for wide regions, and are allocated their own resources that they can dedicate to their constituent armies at will. Fronts typically operate independent of each other, save for a few times during exercises or wartime where they have cooperated to achieve a large objective. These fronts, unlike every other army unit, do not possess a unit flag and as such are renamed according to the region they are based in or operating in. For Instance, if a front was deployed to Zilverenberg, it would be renamed to the Zilverenberg Front. Correspondingly Fronts are essentially never destroyed, just renamed even if a front were to lose an extensive portion of its personnel or divisions, new units would be added to its rosters. Fronts are also responsible for coordinating air resources and assigning them to support particular armies or divisions. The PAWP has 4 fronts, the Eastern, Western, Southern and Reserve.

Below fronts are Armies, an army is the largest flagged unit. This means that their name and number rarely change, and only change by "reflagging" the unit, an Libriran PAWP tradition. Armies contain anywhere from 3-10 Divisions or other units. Armies are also the largest guards units. Armies are typically for specialized purposes, such as a Tank army, which contains entirely tank divisions and whose purpose is to create breakthroughs.