Antillean Armed Forces
The Antillean Armed Forces, officially known as the United Commonwealth Armed Forces (UC Armed Forces) are the standing military forces of the Antilles, officially the United Commonwealth of America. It consists of five independent branches: the Army, the Navy (including the Marine Corps), the Air Force, the Coast Guard, and the National Guard. The armed forces are under the jurisdiction of three separate departments: the Departments of the Army, Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force, which are cabinet-level agencies within the federal government, headquartered in Columbia City, Hispaniola. The main command headquarters is the National Military Center.
| Antillean Armed Forces | |
|---|---|
| Founded | May 18, 1866 |
| Current form | September 18, 1940 |
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| Headquarters | National Military Center, Columbia City, Hispaniola |
| Leadership | |
| Commander-in-Chief |
 President Arian Lawrence |
| Chief of Staff |
 Fleet Admiral Nicolas Johnson |
| Vice Chief of Staff |
 General of the Army Michael Dore |
| Personnel | |
| Military age | 17 with parental consent, 18 for voluntary service |
| Conscription | Only males register at age 18 (mandatory conscription discontinued in 1984) |
| Expenditures | |
| Budget | TBD |
| Industry | |
| Foreign suppliers | |
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| History | |
| Ranks |
Commissioned officer |
Each branch of the military is assigned a role and domain depending on what type of warfare they are tasked with. The army is responsible for all land-based operations, while the navy conducts maritime combat operations with the Marine Corps conducting expeditionary warfare as the Antilles' naval infantry force in conjunction with the rest of the navy and the army. The air force is responsible for air-based operations while the coast guard is responsible for maritime law enforcement in the country's maritime borders. The National Guard is the reserve componant of the armed forces and is organized into army, naval, and air reserve units based in all four provisional commonwealths. All of these services are collectively responsible for the protection and defense of the Antilles from any potential invasion of the island nation, primarily from the United Commonwealth in the American mainland, as its ultimately and primary objective.
The UC Armed Forces were created in 1866 shortly after the establishment of the United Commonwealth of America during the war of War of Contingency as the successor to the United States Armed Forces. Following the war, the UCAF was deployed overseas numerous times and partook in several conflicts, seeking to preserve the United Commonwealth's territorial integrity and expanding the country's influence with the hope of reclaiming lost territory. Notable conflicts included the Annexation of Santo Domingo in 1871, the Spanish–American War against Spain alongside several Anglo-American countries in 1898, and the Banana Wars in the early 1900s. Between 1917 and 1921, the UCAF fought in the Continental Revolutionary War was divided as several units and personnel, including high-ranking officers, defected to the Continental Revolutionary Army of the Continentalist Party. After the Great Retreat in 1921, the modern Antillean military was created with its current structure being established in 1940 after the Great War.
Between 1922 until the late 1960s, the primary goal of the Antillean Armed Forces outside of the defense of the Antilles from any potential foreign invasion was the eventual reconquest of the American mainland from the United Commonwealth of Continental States (UCCS) through campaigns such as Operation Delaware Crossing. The current mission of the defense of the Antilles and its island territories by the Continental Armed Forces (CAF) of the UCCS came about after the federal government under Amelia Abarough shifted its view of the Antilles from a temporary state of occupation to a pernament long-term presence. Said objective has persisted after Abarough's death in 1983 due to the country's ambigious political status and ongoing regional conflict with the Continental States in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
The UC Armed Forces has played a key role in modern Antillean history as one of the country's most imporant institutions, helping institute a sense of national unity and identity after the Continental Revolutionary War and protecting it from foreign invasion and attacks, but also aided Abarough in several acts of political repression during her reign between 1921 to 1983, including the Great Blue Terror and the Haitian Genocide among several other atrocities. The military is supported by a vibrant defense industry and imports from several foreign countries, mainly member states of the Conference of American States and much of the European Community as well as cooperation with the militaries of the aforementioned countries.
Names
The United Commonwealth Armed Forces is the official name of the military and is the successor to the armed forces of the United States of America, the predecessor state of the United Commonwealth and the Antilles by extension. The armed forces were formed from loyalist elements of the United States military that supported the Union during the American Civil War and were initially formed from the Union Army and Union Navy that fought against the military forces of the Confederate States of America. During the Contingency War, they were commonly refered to as the Union Army or the Union Armed Forces with other common names including the Loyalist Army and Loyalist Forces.
During the Continental Revolutionary War, those who remained loyal towards and fought for the Federalist regime were known as the Federalist Army and the Federalist forces respectively to differenciate those who supported the Continental Revolutionary Army and the Landonist revolutionary cause. Since the end of the war in 1921 and the establishment of the Antilles as a de-facto sovereign state, the military is commonly referred to as the Antillean Armed Forces to distinguish it from the Continental Armed Forces of the United Commonwealth. The latter term is the official designation of the country's military in official documents and speeches by most of the international community in accordance with the One American policy.
History
The Antillean Armed Forces, or more specifically the United Commonwealth Armed Forces traces its origins to the armed forces of the United States that preceded it, the latter of which was formed from the colonial militias and other military forces that fought against the British Armed Forces in the American Revolutionary War. During the American Civil War, those who remained loyal to the United States and opposed by secession and fought against the Confederacy became the Union Army and Union Navy respectively. Union military forces that remained loyal to the United States at the start of the Contingency War would be organized into the United Commonwealth Armed Forces following the establishment of the United Commonwealth of America in 1866 shortly after the conflict began. The Contingency War was the first major war and armed conflict that the UCAF fought in and fought against the remnants of the Confederate States military, secessionaist forces of the Northeast Union and Superior in the north, and the intervening armies from Brazoria, the United Kingdom and its colonial holdings, Spain, and the Kingdom of Sierra. The war ended in 1868 with the Christmas Accords and hostilities were officially ended with the Treaty of Salinas in 1869.
Service branches
Army
Marine Corps
Air Force
Coast Guard
National Guard
Personnel
Organization
Foreign support and cooperation
Major deployments, battles, and incidents
1866–1921
- War of Contingency: 1866–1869
- Spanish–American War: 1898
- Continental Revolutionary War: 1917–1921
Since 1921
- Great Retreat: 1921
- Great War: 1932–1938
- Vietnam War: 1964–1975, foreign intervention in support of South Vietnam
- Tet Offensive: January 31–September 23, 1968
- Easter Offensive: March 30–September 22, 1972
- Colombia War: 1969–1976
- Antillean War: December 16–30, 1982
- Operation Uphold Democracy: 1987
- Syrian Civil War: 2009–2022, involvement as part of ISAF
- Operation Poseidon's Watch: February 9, 2022–present
- Operation Inherent Resolve: January 31, 2023–present