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The People's Revolutionary Guard

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The military plays a massive part in the culture of Kroraina, as well as the everyday lives of its citizens. Since ancient times the nation has prided itself on its martial culture, a tradition which only grew stronger following their conquest by and eventual liberation from the The Mongol, Qing, and Russian Empires. The fledgling state of Kroraina swore to never let themselves be conquered by a foe again, and introduced the National Saviour Act. The People's Buddhist Republic was an ethnolinguistically unique state, whose religion and culture was isolated from the rest of its Buddhist Indo-European allies. In many ways, Besides the Sri Lankans, Kroraina is the last Buddhist Indo-European State. Thus the need to defend itself was paramount over all odds. Furthermore, the nation's ability to draw on its resources to modernize and develop itself is necessary for the continuity of the Kroraini state. Kroraina is unique in the fact that its military is viewed as a cornerstone of its political development. The PRDP requires complete conscription.

Unlike many conscript armies, the soldiers of Kroraina tend to be highly motivated, superbly trained, and well equipped, with most citizens seeing it as an honor rather than an unfortunate necessity. The rate of reenlistment for conscripts who have served their time is very high, at around 58%[3]. The People's National Mandate of Service states that all citizens between the ages of every man and woman serve in the People's Revolutionary Guard for four years, from the age of 18 to 22. During times of war, this is expanded to be from 18 to 24. The only exceptions to the conscription are convicts, the insane, and the mentally disabled. Those who are physically disabled but mentally sound are found a desk job or some other auxiliary role. Following their service the conscripts are given the option to completely retire from the military with a small pension, to return to civilian life with a larger pension in return for 4 years of guaranteed membership in their local militia, or to reenlist in one of the other branches of service.

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Doctrines of the Revolutionary Armed Guard
• A Clausewitzian Premise
The Kroraini state and military elite share the Clausewitzian understanding of war as an extension of state power, and accordingly agree that military force is merely an ends to state interests. It also agrees that environmental factors, as well as military, are potential threats, and has contigency plans in the case in, for example, the collapse of the Thermohaline circulation (which would prompt wide-scale climatic change, especially in Europe which would be reduced to Sibera-esque weather conditions) or sea level rising. The Kroraini Armed Forces combat piracy, prepares for conventional war, and makes contigencies for demographic or environmental collapse.

• Mechanized Forces Doctrine
Highly mechanized and organized around the use of ground-based tracked vehicles (as opposed to wheeled), the Kroraini Armed Forces’ goals are oriented towards ground warfare--specifically in the mountains. With huge paramilitary and reserve formations, the active forces are considered to simply be the tip of the spear for whatever military operations may be conducted. Elite ground formations are tracked and have some armored capability, though many regiments are still motorized as per budget concerns.

The Kroraini Army adheres to principles of Kesselschlacht, and is an extremely aggressive, offensive military force. Commanders are instructed to always go on the offensive when resources permit. Even on the platoon level, infantry formations are trained to always be on-the-move, winning momentum against the enemy whom they hope to confuse, disorient, and destroy piecemeal through advance maneuvering capability and supporting/covering fire. With such aggressive tactical and strategic doctrine, the importance of artillery is emphasized for its ability to soften and diminish the cohesion of an enemy formation before an assault.

All major offensives are to begin with at least 2 hours of artillery barrage with conventional shells and chemical weapons.

• Supporting Arms and Air Forces
The Kroraini Army always attacks in tandem with suppressing fire or smoke; every artillery formation has fire infrared smoke munitions, preventing the use of thermal imaging or visible-light optics to track the movement of Kroraini units; as such, the Kroraini Armed Forces will always use such smoke-screens when attacking out in the open, leaving them effectively covered until they emerge from the smoke. Additionally, artillery can be employed to deliver cluster munitions, mines, novichok, soman, and DPICMs, or other unconventional weapons to hamper enemy maneuver or demoralize enemy formations.

The Kroraini Army believes in the application of mass--or force concentration-- to overwhelm enemy formations. Generally, enemy units are subjected to a massive onslaught of Kroraini elements, artillery fire, and other attacks in concentrated strikes to destabilize and fracture their formations. Designated armored formations then exploit these breaks, destroying the enemy rear, effectively crushing enemy supply and logistical capabilities. The Kroraini Army is a strong believer in the application of artillery forces to destroy enemy armored formations and particularly staunch defensive positions, and cover large scale assaults. The Kroraini Armed Forces has a massive artillery arm, and artillery is highly significant in Kroraini doctrine.

• Aggressive Reconnaissance
In battle spaces as large and wide as the Thar desert, information and intelligence are key to battlefield mastery and control. Information is almost as crucial in the mountains, where positioning is a matter of life-and-death. Limited resources, however, necessitates that reconnaissance elements of the Kroraini Army have to be able to survive on their own as reinforcement and support might hypothetically be too distant to bring to bear, for at least 24 hours. While artillery is busy shadowing and supporting the main backbones of the assaults--the brigade--there is little room for artillery to act in support of smaller intelligence gathering units.

Kroraini armed reconnaissance units are generally comprised of the best soldiers, trained to hold their own against any formation long enough to relay valuable data to headquarters and information units. They operate in RIF squadrons and are trained to fight mounted, unmounted, and as light infantry through difficult terrain, covering a wide variety of roles. They generally have light tanks and within their ranks and access to liberal air support. Further, in the events that the lines are disrupted and broken, reconnaissance formations are tasked with the role of fighting pitched delaying actions to permit the major bulk of the army to regroup to go on the offensive again.

• Infiltration Tactics
While the conventional ground forces are expected to be fighting a highly aggressive, symmetrical set-piece battle with armor, artillery, air forces, and IFVs, Kroraini military theorists advocate the insertion of rapid light infantry formations in lightly defended tactical points behind enemy lines to distort the momentum and to destabilize the enemy’s operations as to permit Kroraini offensives to succeed with greater consistency and fewer losses. These operations are based on Hutier principles.

The Kroraini Army makes use of large numbers of partisans to force the enemy to under-commit to the frontlines. In every Kroraini city and town, there are several dozen or even hundreds of trained fighters who have been instructed to remain dormant until the bulk of the enemy formation has passed before conducting destabilization and disruptive operations. These are often women and adolescents, further complicating the issue for an enemy on the offensive.

In the grassland or mountainous regions of the nation, it has also been proposed that formations of light infantry should move behind enemy lines during larger scale armor assaults and artillery bombardments as to force the enemy into adopting a brittle, less flexible combat front which can then be destroyed piecemeal by Kroraini formations. Superior leadership, small-unit tactics, and an emphasis on destabilizing the enemy and usurping their center play into the practice of such tactics.

• Fourth Generation Warfare
Beyond conventional warfare, Kroraini clandestine branch also engages in what it refers to as Fourth Generation Warfare. This theory of warfare is intellectually controversial in its premise that, in a radically changing and globalizing world, conventional, symmetrical military forces is not the only option for military action.

Fourth generation warfare, as an applied theory of military power, insists that Kroraini need not be implicated nor even involved in military actions, instead allowing non-state parties to undermine antagonistic regimes. Steps, such as tight controls of society, forging ties with foreign disaffected (and potentially militant) organizations and establishing intelligence and ties with weapons cartels in all regions of the world allows the state to pursue a fourth generation doctrine as seen fit.

• Application of and Countering of Airpower
The Kroraini Army, in addition to building its own passable air force, has a large arsenal of SAMs with which to deny airspace to enemy formations. While Kroraini planners have acknowledged that there is no “impenetrable” air defense, and that its own air defenses are technologically limited, they maintain that they can make the enemy’s assaults costly and deny enemy air forces maneuver and airspace. This is done by the creation and maintenance of faux-headquarters and supply depots near the front and the rear. The strategic consideration is, then, that enemy will always be forced to risk the loss of air forces, with no certainty of hitting anything of tactical value. The state also employs VHF radars to counter stealth technology.

The Kroraini Army also has MEADs attached at the brigade level, and SHORADs at the battalion level; in this way, every formation of the Kroraini Army is prepared to deal with the air threat at any moment. LORADs are attached on the operational level and are considered to be a strategic asset, deployed to cover crucial offensives or prevent the use of airpower to strike vulnerable or exposed regions in the strategic and tactical rear.

The Kroraini Army sees airpower as a tool with three purposes: (1) for attacking sensitive targets that would otherwise be untargetable, (2)interdiction missions and breakthroughs (referring to Lind's theory of using airpower to create breakthrough points for light infantry infiltration); as such, long-ranged air forces are used primarily to target enemy supply depots, headquarters, industrial positions, and other installations, but focus their priority on targeting enemy airfields and airbases in hopes of diminishing enemy air capability in the opening stages of a war.

• Sea Denial
Despite aggressive international posturing, the Kroraini Navy does not have the resources or necessity to launch overseas invasions. Instead, the Kroraini Navy has focused on a doctrine of naval reconnaissance and area-denial, preventing the enemy unopposed use of the seas around Kroraini through the use of shore-based weapons and littoral attack craft, using low-cost platforms to destroy expensive enemy platforms. With a combination of a formidable blue-water fleet, this makes Kroraini waters dangerous for a foe. This doctrine allows Kroraini to nonetheless control the vital sea lanes in the Indian ocean. Furthermore, it allows Kroraini to mount a credible defense at a low cost.

The Kroraini navy relies on quasi-ballistic anti-ship missiles "Carrier Killers", fast attack craft, and AIP diesel electric submarines (submarines with virtually no audible trace) as short-ranged counters to enemy blue-water fleets. Submarines, shore-based OTH (deployed ala JORN) radar and aircraft, and satellites all contribute to an integrated reconnaissance, in which multiple sources of intelligence and data contribute to painting a clearer and more precise image of the battlefield space. When threats are determined and isolated, submarines, missiles, or other weapons might be used to eliminate these threats.

The Kroraini Navy also relies on mining waters, given its vast, unguarded coastline, which prevents enemy ships from approaching too closely to shore. Mine warfare plays a big part of Kroraini naval doctrine, stressing the use of mines to prevent the enemy from moving through certain waters. Kroraini can deploy mines to any location in its waters with 24 hours.

• Recruitment and Indoctrination
One of the few widely accepted and respected careers paths within the Kroraini State is that of a soldier. Given the nation’s long history of oppression, foreign dominance and a fierce civil war, the Kroraini people, the Sikhs and Nepalese in particular, have developed a sense of vicious nationalism and a desire to defend their motherland from external threat.

The training truly begins in elementary school, where ideals of national service and patriotism are concepts that are taught from an early age. Like many Asian education systems, all children are also forced to participate in grueling physical education, which extends into high school, and later, into mandatory reserve training for young, fit men and women. Most Kroraini citizens are relatively fit and conform to the state’s ideal of a “perfect soldier.” Both men and women are permitted and generally tend to be fit for service.

The Kroraini Army pays ₹10,000 (around $150) monthly in wages per active soldier, with considerably more for officers and specialists. Depending on rank, time of service and other risk factors involved, these wages can fluctuate and rise. Pension for veterans, adjusted each year by CPI for inflation, is around ₹4,000.

• Training and Manpower
The Kroraini army has 2.2 million active personnel, and 1,500,000 reserve personnel.

Basic training consists of twelve week basic training cycles for most soldiers, though special forces can train for up two years, in high intensity military camps emphasizing teamwork, obedience, and endurance. All training is brutal and involves extreme physical duress and the strengthening of camaraderie. This serves to strengthen the resolve and burning anger within their souls, and creates an elite fighting force of tightly-bound, vicious fanatics. The average Service term is two years.

Officers generally hail from one of Kroraina's twelve Military Academies, Military Science Programs at their respective universities, or from military academies of allied states. Officers can also rise through merit and attend 12 weeks of officer training school.

Most Kroraini formations have combat veterans. Many have participated in international peacekeeping coalitions and fighting against domestic extremists. These veterans add a cutting edge to the Kroraini military and add a dynamic of experience to already-present devotion and fanaticism.
Recruits in special forces or other elite units are desensitized to murder and blood by performing training exercises with live targets; generally, convicts, prisoners of war, serial rapists, murderers, communist agitators, and terrorists. In the final week of combat training, they are instructed to shoot and kill several of these individuals with rifles, bayonets and other weapons systems. This training also doubles as capital punishment.