The Ashenovian People's Army.

Flag of the Ashenovian People's Army.

Branches.

• Ashenovian Ground Forces.

• Ashenovian People's Navy.

• Ashenovian Air Force.

• Ashenovian Strategic Missile Command.
  

Manpower: 824k active soldiers, and over 3 million reserve soldiers

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Ground Forces: 317k actives, over a million trained reservists, organized within infantry, artillery, armour and air defence, as well as signal, engineering and chemical defense corps.
The ground forces were the first branch of the D.A army to be reorganized in 1925, after the end of the civil war
March of the Artillery Division
March of the Tank Division

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Air Force: 65k personnel ( +31,000 paratroopers. )
Over 800 aircraft and 400 helicopters.

The first instance of an Ashenovian military air arm was established by royal decree in 1919, a few months prior to the end of the monarchy.

Since the establishment of communism and onwards, special emphasis on the aviation industry is what pushed the Air Force from having a fleet of 20+ foreign biplanes at the end of the Civil War, to a fleet of over 300 indigenously-built jet aircraft in the early 60's.
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People's Navy:
213k personnel
34 ships.

Since the middle 19th century, Ashenov has had a navy.
The small Ashenovian Royal Fleet, towards the end of the monarchy, had 6 pre-dreadnought battleships and an unreported quantity of destroyers, all foreign made.

In the 70's, the first Ashenovian shipyards were built, allowing for national production of both military and civilian vessels.
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Strategic Missile Command:
13,000 personnel
104 nuclear warheads.
867 cruise missiles.

Atomic weapon research started in Ashenov in the early 60's, with 1967 seeing the first detonations of fully Ashenovian-made nuclear devices.

In 1969 the Missile Command was established as a branch of the Air Force, subsequently given autonomy in 1974, with development and production of weapons very suspected to continue to this day.
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History.

The Ashenovian People's Army was founded from the reestructuration of the republican-era Ashenovian Army and its combination with the Red Faction Army (victors of the Civil War) in 1925.
It is estimated that the transition ended in 1927.

In the 40's, the Ashenovian People's Army had to resist the advance of the invading armies of Narlissia and Libertus, which it did successfully.

However, a Wolfrussian incursion forced them into the southeast of the country, which remained unoccupied.

Remaining forces in the occupied zone fought in guerrilla wars and carried out sabotage missions.

After the expulsion of the Wolfrussian forces in the Vetelonian counterattack, the People's Army went into the west to aid more liberations.

With the army being left in a less-than-perfect state after the war, post-war leader Isak Slava's policies brought a period of marked recovery of the military and the economy, and in the 1970's all army branches used nationally-produced equipment in majority percentages, as well as seeing the rise of Ashenov as a nuclear power.

The maximum authority of the Army was that of the General Secretary of the Ashenovian Communist Party.
Since the reformation of the
Ashenovian political system, it has been the President of the SFR.

Since 1970 each constituent state holds a military district with a state militia comprised only of ground forces, under authority of its respective state governor.

Forces serving under the federal flag are under direct orders of the federal government, such as
Air Force, Navy and the Missile Command also are.

In 1984 it was made possible for the army to go on international peacekeeping missions, as part of Vladimir Kashtovik's controversial military policies.

In 1997, the Navy intervened in the Sudi Asalian civil war, a lengthy conflict in which socialist militias fought against a jingoistic and genocidal authoritarian-theocratic regime.

The decision to strike from the sea rather than from land was made in an effort to confuse and demoralize the outclassed and unable to respond Asalian forces for the while until their ability to fight back was breached and thus their remaining military might forced to operate in a exclusively defensive manner.

Stationed within the Aegean Sea and some in the Mediterranean, Ashenovian vessels assisted by the Missile Command and the Air Force, carried out long-distance attacks using cruise missile launches and ground attack aircraft sorties against strategical targets, quickly and effectively crippling the government's forces capabilities.

The conflict ended in 2001, when the regime was toppled by a coup d'état.

Convoys of Ashenovian humanitarian aid reached Sudi Asal through its border with the Ashenovian state of Djamassi shortly after, officially marking the conflict's end.

It was the first military conflict for the Ashenovian People's Army in 52 years, as well as the first and only time the Missile Command's capabilities have been used on an actual combat scenario.