Solevanti Defense Forces
| Solevanti Defense Forces | |
|---|---|
| La Défense solevant | |
 Official Seal of the Solevanti Defense Forces | |
| Founded | 9 August 1821 |
| Service branches | Land Force Naval Force Air Force |
| Headquarters | Bougainville |
| Leadership | |
| President | Timothée Clérico |
| Councillor-General of Defense | Cédric Delaunay |
| Head of the Defense Forces | Air Marshal Dylan Vaillancourt |
| Manpower | |
| Conscription | No |
| Available for military service | 13,500,000, age 18 (2018) |
| Fit for military service | 10,250,000, age 18 (2018) |
| Reaching military age annually | 375,000 (2018) |
| Active personnel | 130,000 (2019) |
| Reserve personnel | 45,000 (2019) |
| Expenditures | |
| Budget | 9.4 billion (2019) |
| Percent of GDP | 2.5% (2019) |
The Solevanti Defense Forces (Merovingian: La Défense solevant) are the military of Solevant. It consists of three branches of service; the Land Force, Air Force, and the Naval Force. The commander of the defense forces is Air Marshal Dylan Vaillancourt.
Background
The history of the Solevanti Defense Forces can be traced to the Sieuxerrian Colonial Marines who first came to Solevant in the early 18th century. The marines would initially combat the native Paganese kingdoms, however with the Sieuxerrian-Themiclesian War, would come into conflict with Themiclesia. With the failure of the war in the late 1760s and the eventual Sieuxerrian Revolution in 1788, the royalist colonial marines were maintained, supplemented by a number of militia regiments. After the 1820 Revolution however, Pro-Bonapartist marine regiments were all reflagged as infantry regiments and the defense forces would be established.
Modern Deployment
Since bringing itself back into the Entente Cordiale in the early 2000s, Solevant has participated in numerous training exercises and combat deployments.
Ummayan Civil War
Conscription
Known as National Service (Service national), Solevant practiced conscription until the late 1990s, when the defense forces moved to an all-professional force structure. Before then, conscription had been mandatory for all citizens aged 18 to 35 with extensions to 45 for those in technical fields. Men and women were both conscripted, men into the defense forces and women into the Solvanti Auxiliary Force which provided non-combat logistical and civil services. Conscription was suspended in the 1990s, however the ability for the government to reinstate the practice exists as an emergency wartime measure.