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Term	Definition
Division	Unit of 14,400 men, formed of 2 brigades
Brigade	Unit of 7,200 men, formed of 6 regiments
Demi-Brigade	Unit of 3,600 men, formed of 3 regiments
Regiment	Unit of 1,200 men, formed of 10 squadrons
Demi-Regiment	Unit of 600 men, formed of 5 squadrons
Cohort	Unit of 360 men, formed of 3 squadrons (motorised inf. only)
Squadron	Unit of 120 men, formed of 3 troops
Troop	Unit of 40 men, formed of 5 troops
Section or Squad	Unit of 8 men, formed of 2 teams
Team	Sub-unit of 4 men

Benacian Defence Force

Merger of the Black Legions, Union Defence Force, and Elwynnese Landstorm into a single combined force tasked with the defence of the Benacian Union. To be undertaken at some point between 1701 AN and 1703 AN. (Defence of Normark and overseas outposts to be outsourced to ESB and or "Maritime Support Group"?)

Manpower

As of 1700 AN:

Black Legions: 1,752,073 personnel (of whom 223,200 are first-line legionaries)
Union Defence Force: 1,360,962 personnel (of whom 504,000 are first-line combat personnel)
Elwynnese Landstorm: 3,388,663 personnel (militia / public order troops)

The combined total of the Black Legions and UDF is therefore 3,113,035 personnel, almost as large as the real-world armed forces of India and China combined and quite unsustainable for two wrecked economies in the aftermath of a continental war.

The numbers of military personnel listed include both support personnel (supplies, construction, and contracting) and actual combat personnel. For a typical country, the proportion of this total that comprises actual combat forces is about 26% (so, for every soldier there will be around three support personnel). This proportion is referred to as the "tooth-to-tail ratio".

3,113,035/100*26 = 809,389 (while 504,000+223,200 = 727,200)

809,389/1,200 = 674 regiments
223,200/1,200 = 186 regiments (186 being 27.6% of 674)

The Benacian Union Defence Forces were the unified armed forces of the Greater Elwynnese Realm and the Unified Governorates of Benacia, formed in 1701 AN from the amalgamation of the Black Legions and the Union Defence Force, the pyrrhic victors in the Second Elwynnese Civil War.

Following the integration of Elwynn and the UGB into the Benacian Union, headquartered in the Free City of Chryse, from 1696 AN onwards, it was realised that the bloated military establishment leftover from the conflict would need to be consolidated into a professional and modern offensively-capable armed force.

Personnel and recruitment

Command structure

The Benacian Union Defence Force reports to the High Presidium of the Benacian Union via the Benacian Security Council and the Commissioner of Defence.

It is subjected to ideological discipline, at all levels above the regiment, by units of the General Inspectorate which provides supporting political officers and Mobile Security Troops who served as blocking detachments.

General Staff Council

The General Staff of the Benacian Union Defence Force mirrors closely, for simplicity and interoperability, the pattern set by Benacia Command. Indeed, the Command Executive of Benacia Command, headquartered in Merensk, maintains an interface with the General Staff of the BUDF via a liaison office in Chryse in addition to its political representation on the High Presidium of the Benacian Union.

The Commissioner of Defence, on behalf of the High Presidium, appoints a President of the General Staff Council, who holds the post for four years, and who in turn nominates banner officers to head the three service branches of the BUDF as well as the seven specialist support directorates of the General Staff itself. These officers, all on four year terms similarly, therefore comprise the totality of the General Staff Council.

The seven directorates are as follows:

D1 - Information Technology
D2 - Logistics
D3 - Manpower
D4 - Planning
D5 - Operations
D6 - Military Intelligence
D7 - Political Relations

The General Staff Council and its supporting directorates, as constituted, therefore are responsibile for operational and strategic level planning, where operational planning covers units and formations above the legion ("Salb") level.

In practice, under most circumstances, operational deployments, including combined arms, joint, and allied operations, would be conducted via the substantially parallel structures of the Benacian Continental Theatre Command of the Raspur Pact, which organises a number of combined arms corps, field armies, and banner groups. Accordingly the foremost concern of the General Staff Council of the BUDF in wartime would be force generation and sustainment.

Personnel selected for assignment to the General Staff Council and its directorates are rebadged and assigned to the General Service Corps so as to detach them from their previous service branch and area of specialism. The General Service Corps, in addition to supporting the General Staff Council also provides the Command and Control Regiments encountered at the corps-level formation and higher.

Branches

Land Forces

The Land Forces constitute the largest part of three service branches of the BDUF. Benacian armies have historically been massive, dating all the way back to the warring dynasties of the Second Era of Shireroth. Today, they are also highly mechanised, well-equipped, and have great firepower and manouevre potential. Manpower and material combined make the present Land Forces of the BDUF a formidable warfighting force in their own right.

The main combat power of the Land Forces is concentrated in the Panzer and Motorised Infantry Regiments of the Legions that form the heart of the Combined Arms Corps which are the mainstay of the forces fielded by the Armies and Banner Groups organised by Benacia Command from the forces provided by the BDUF.

The basic principle of land warfare for the BUDF Land Forces is violent, sustained, and deep offensive action. Mechanised and armoured formations, supported by aviation and artillery, are to seize the initiative at the outset of hostilities, to penetrate the enemy's defenses, and to drive deeply and decisively into the enemy's rear area. The effects of the Scouring convinced the Benacian Union that any future continental war against a near peer rival would be resolved by the indiscriminate use of weapons of mass destruction - the so-called Endsieg scenario - and that the duty of the Land Forces therefore would be to secure the positions that would be advantageous for the survival of the Union in the ensuing conditions of economic and civilisational collapse.

Roughly equivalent to an army group, a Banner Group could be composed of three to five armies with organic artillery, missile, air defence, engineer, signal, intelligence, reconnaissance, and rear service units, plus aviation, air assault, and special purpose forces. As the top-level combined arms formation, a Banner Group would have a Banner Air Force and Banner Fleet attached.

An army meanwhile would comprise of three Combined Arms Corps, each one with a legion at its heart, [...]

Legions (*Salb*) of the Benacian Union Defence Force
Legion no. and title	Emblem	Recruiting ethnicity
Saznan Darneï	File:.png
Salb I		Mishalanese
Salb II		Mishalanese
Salb III		Mishalanese
Salb IV Aurangzeb	File:.png	Babkhan
Salb V Fretensis	File:.png
Salb VI Jahangir	File:.png	Babkhan
Salb VII Sikarikim	File:.png	Siyachi
Salb VIII Anandja	File:.png
Salb IX Kokhba	File:.png	Siyachi
Salb X Kana'im	File:.png	Siyachi
Salb XI Svyashchennaya Druzhina	File:.png	Mishalanese
Salb XIII Tyrannocricetus		Lach
Salb XIX		Lywallers
Salb XX
Salb XXX	File:.png
Salb XXXI	File:.png
Salb XXXIII	File:.png
Salb XXXIV	File:.png
Salb XXXV	File:.png