Commissioned Review of the Military Capcity of Lourenne

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Commissioned Review of the Military Capcity of Lourenne

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Executive Summary
For Public Dissemination


Ministry of Defense
Commissioned Review of the National Military Capacity of Lourenne

September 4138

Dear Sister General Secretary,

Upon your orders, we have conducted a full review of Lourenne's armed forces. As you will read, both in the executive summary and in the full report, there are challenges facing our military, and a lot of opportunity for improvement. The Republic will benefit from prompt attention, despite our nation facing no current internal nor external threats. It is our estimation that there is some political will for modernization of the Nation's armed Forces.

We appreciate your attention to our long neglected armed forces.

Marguerite Blanchard
Minister of Defense, People's Socialist Republic of Lourenne
PdFL

Executive Summary:
I.
The Infantry

We currently possess a military of no more than 37,000 members, 85% of which are currently combat ready, 15% of whom are held in reserve. This is troubling considering that the military officially lists more than 350,000 members. Most of the combat ready soldiers in the service are located in and around the capital, with most of the non-ready soldiers spread throughout the remainder of the Republic. The status of Lourenne's forces, as they stand now, is "dangerously neglected and unprepared."

We put the members of the Military through a battery of exams, specifically to ascertain their combat readiness. Most soldiers suffered from serviceable gear, inadequate or incomplete training, poor housing and substandard food and other benefits, widely varied uniform standards, poor drill capabilities, in many cases unservicable weapons, and armories which lacked even the most basic degrees of inventory control which led to removal or unexplained loss, at some point in the past of several of the weapons in the armory.

The assessment of our teams is that less than 10% of our current military strength is prepared to go to war, on any level, should we be invaded, and most forces would more likely desert than fight. Those that wished to remain and fight would not be able to do so for long or do so very successfully. Any fixed positions would soon become overrun. Few weapons work as they are supposed to- maintenance logs have not been completed in any systematic way, in years. Most weapons are rusted and unusable.

Uniforms need to be updated. General issued boots tend to either wear out on even normal duty within three months, or rot in the first rain. Uniform cloth is not durable, and tends to fall apart soon after entering service. Soldiers have taken to wearing denim which they purchased on their own rather than wear uniform trousers. Units have adopted their own medals and commendations, and there is no standardized medal system. Collectives have adopted their own unit insignias and have commissioned their own medallions, often times several alternatives for the same commendation.

The field food supply system has not worked in years. We currently have no distributor for portable field meals to supply troops were they to be deployed. Instead, the military has long employed private contractors, which are not standard across the Republic, and sell food at a premium. When on base, food service, which is one of the most basic benefits to the regular military, has likewise been contracted out, and as a result, many duty posts do not have a single operational mess hall, and soldiers are offered subsidies to eat food in town.

In many cases, soldiers frequently do not turn up for morning formation, insubordination is high, and malingering is common.

II.
Indirect Fire Weapons

Artillery suffers from the same sorts of limitations that infantry suffers. Armaments are antiquated, unmaintained and unserviceable. The Republic maintains whole warehouses of these arms which have been allowed to rust in place. The few guns which are still employed are so old that modern artillery can easily out shoot them by a dozen kilometers. Outside of a few specially trained units, field artillery rarely fires live rounds anywhere in the Republic, and we are dangerously close to losing knowledge of indirect fire all together.

III.
Modern Armor

The Republic possess none which is serviceable. What we had has generally been scrapped and sold off for parts. There has not been training in armor, or even organization of tank units, in more than 40 years.

IV.
Logistics

The Military supply system is completely decentralized, and fails to meet the needs of the Service. Requisitions often take months to arrive, the amount of the bureaucracy and red tape involved in the process is oppressive, even from military standards. Acquisitions of supplies from private contractors is irregular and untrustworthy, and several low profile cases of graft have been traced back to supply quartermasters. The one bright spot of the logistics sector of the military is the order that warehouses are kept. Supplies in the warehouses are meticulously kept and ordered, largely as a response to the graft cases. When various military units make requests from the Quartermaster, their requests are filled immediately and precisely.

V. Naval

Lourenne has no external navy to speak of. We do maintain a fleet of river patrol boats which double as transports to move troops up and down the waterways within the country. The boats generally are serviceable, and are kept running due to a relatively large after market parts and supply market which the Government has contracted. The Riverine forces which operate the fleet are mostly pilots, and are not suitable as combatants, and the armaments on the boats have for the most part been removed, and the boats assigned specifically to transport duty.

Full details of the report are classified. However, our policy proposals can be offered publicly, to underscore the need for public support for a general overhaul.

A.
Ground Forces

The Commission recommends a complete overhaul of the ground forces of Lourenne. We have identified the names and ranks of approximately 37,000 members of the service who are prepared to go to combat. The remainder of the force should be cashiered immediately.

Of the 37,000 forces, all officers should be retained at their current rank. The remainder should be offered new contracts, promoted to the nearest NCO or Staff NCO rank. From this number, a new recruit training regiment should be formed, and based at Bellevue, Louives. Those who are not selected to join the recruit training regiment will be divided evenly across all 5 Collectives, and will be assigned to civilian training detachments.

i. Recruit training
All new enlistees will be required to go through recruit training. The training cycle will be focused primarily on the establishment of discipline and unit cohesion. The training cycle will consist of 83 training days, divided roughly equally in 4 week phases. The first phase will be focused on the basics of professional military skills. Proper military attire, drill and physical training will be featured. During the second phase, recruits will be trained in proficiency at fire arms, including personal firearms and basic infantry tactics. The third phase will be dedicated to polishing the military training, including advanced close order drill, and military history and customs.

ii. Occupational School
Following conclusion of basic training, all new soldiers will go to their occupational schools, where they will learn technical details of their job. Occupations in the military will be scheduled according to a field list which will align with a new organization of the military. Occupations will be divided as follows:

01- Administration
02- Military Intelligence
03- Infantry
04- Logistics
05- Planning, Civil and Public Affairs
06- Communications and Computers
07- Tanks, Riverine and Marine
08- Field Artillery
09- Training
10- Engineers, Utilities, Construction
11- Ordinance and Armory
12- Explosive Ordinance Disposal
13- Signals intelligence, Electric Intel and Cryptography
14- Linguistics
15- Electrical and electronics maintenance
16- Quartermaster operations
17- Food Service
18- Motor Transport
19- Legal Services
20- Military Band
21- NBC Defense
22- Military Police and Corrections
23- Aircraft Maintenance and Avionics, Logistics and Ordinance
24- Meteorology, Oceanography and Astronomy
25- Air Control and Traffic Control
26- Fixed Wing
27- Rotor Wing and Drone
28- Medical
29- Facilities Maintenance
30- Unassigned and Miscellaneous

iii.
Divisional Assignments

The Ground Forces will formed into six corps, one Corps per Collective and a reinforced Headquarters Corps, which will consist of two divisions of Combat Air and a Headquarters division. Each I-V Corps will consist of the following arrangement:

1st Division- 15,000 troops
1st Regiment: Infantry, 2BN, HQ BN
each Battalion consists of 2 Co Inf, 1 Co Mortars, 1 Company Comm
HQ BN consists of CO, XO, Supply, Admin, Intelligence, MT
2nd Regiment: Artillery 3 BN, HQ BN
Each BN consists of 3 firing batteries and 1 Company Comm
HQ BN consists of CO, XO, Supply, Admin, Intelligence, MT
3rd Regiment: Armored Cavalry
Each Regiment consists of 2 BN Heavy Armor, 1 BN Cavalry, 1 HQ Bn
HQ BN consists of CO, XO, Supply, Admin, Intelligence, MT
HQ Regiment
Consists of HQ, Intel, Ordinance, Armory, EOD, Food Service, Maintenance and Medical

2nd Division- 12,000 Troops
1st Regiment: Infantry, 2BN, 1 Riverine BN, 1 HQ BN
each Battalion consists of 2 Co Inf, 1 Co Mortars, 1 Company Comm
HQ BN consists of CO, XO, Supply, Admin, Intelligence, MT
2nd Regiment: Artillery 3 BN, HQ BN
Each BN consists of 3 firing batteries and 1Company Comm
HQ BN consists of CO, XO, Supply, Admin, Intelligence, MT
3rd Regiment-HQ
Consists of Division HQ BN and Civilian Training BN
HQ Regiment
Consists of HQ, Intel, Ordinance, Armory, EOD, and Medical

VI Corps Consists of the following arrangement
1st Division- HQ Division- 5600 Troops
General Staff
Military Planning,
Military Intelligence
Public Relations
Liaison

2nd Division- 7500 Troops
Military Justice BN and JAG,
Military Police
Quartermaster,
Recruit Training Regiment
Engineers
Proving and Testing

3rd Division- Combat Air- 15,000 Troops
1st Regiment:
1 wing Intercept, 1 wing Assault, 1 HQ BN
2nd Regiment:
1 wing CAS, 1 Wing Air Cav, 1 HQ BN
HQ Regiment
Consists of HQ, Intel, Ordinance, Armory, EOD, Food Service, Maintenance and Medical

B.
Navy

The Navy of Lourenne should be built following the reconstruction of the Army. No recommendations are being offered at this time.

VI. Further Policy Recommendations
a. Civilian MIlitia
The Government of Lourenne should immediately begin training a civilian militia to serve as an auxiliary force for the military. The civilians will be trained by professional training on the basics of military infantry tactics, home defense, and rudimentary command and control. Civilian militias will select their own officers for a biannual term, and those officers will coordinate with the Civilian Training Battalions in each Collective for quarterly drills in all cities and towns with a population of under 25,000, and semi-annual drills in cities with a population over 25,000. All Citizens should be required to attend at least 1 drill a year, for which they will be compensated at a rate of three days according to the standard scheduled pay rate.

All adult citizens should be required to maintain a standardized modern rifle in their homes, to be used at drill. The firearms will be maintained, and a fine for failure to maintain the firearm should be levied. Members of the Citizen Militia will be required to present their arms for inspection at their drill.

b. Requisitions and supply
The Government of Lourenne should immediately research and begin building its own military clothing and supplying its own military provisions. National supply factories should research the highest quality uniforms, and rebuild the support infrastructure on our bases, to be able to provide the highest quality of services to the military. Doing so will create thousands of jobs and will raise morale for the forces.

To acquire the things we need to modernize base life, Lourenne should not be afraid to look to our neighbors for help and assistance.

Furthermore, we need to acquire new hardware, either through updates in our own productive capabilities, or through acquisitions from overseas.

c. Appropriations
To fund this project, the Finance Minister should form a new budget which prioritizes military spending. The Defense Department anticipates a general increase in the military budget of about 25% for the first ten years of modernization, and then after that, a 2-3 percent increase per year in maintenance costs. The initial outlays are rather high, admittedly, but most of their cost will be offset by the scrapping of the currently inefficient and expense force that we now have which is fairly useless to our country.

We hope these recommendations are implemented with all speed and diligence, for the benefit of the nation.
Primary: Institutionalist Party of Kalistan (IPoK), 5146-

Inactive:
Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK), 2591-
Hizb Al'Sultan حزب السلطان 4543-4551
Parti des Frères Lourenne, 4109-4132
Gaduri Brethrenist Movement (MHdG), 4481-4485
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