Questions tagged [military-organisation]
For things regarding military organisation. This includes organization of military branches & units, military ranks & how things that don't exist in real life would be integrated into militaries.
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Help with designing and structuring a modern Confederate States military? [closed]
Basically in my world, the South won the Civil War and from 1865 onwards, the United States and Confederate States are bitter rivals and absolutely detest one another (and per the Grant Doctrine, the ...
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Lever action or primitive Bolt for an Army modernizing at speed?
About what is says on the tin. There's this Empire, which for our purposes has a general industrial capacity somewhere around that of 1910s Imperial Germany, but which for various has long neglected ...
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Why are scout bots only used for reconnaissance?
Why would scout robots be used for recon only, not general combat?
I have a situation in which scout robots akin to mars rovers are used for military applications by forces residing on a foreign ...
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Additional officer ranks for large military organizations
Per my current understanding, a fairly typical military organization will have the ranks outlined in the Wikipedia page on comparative military ranks.
The only problem is that, at most, this system ...
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What psychological strategies could be used for keeping an anti-military crew as close to military doctrine as possible?
I hope this question isn't too broad to be answered and clear enough (which I have a hard time figuring out by myself).
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In this Earth-like world the society is still quite retrograde in the ...
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How does my military communicate if satellite communications is impossible and sky wave is unreliable
On a planet that resembles Earth, long wave radio communications face some challenges. Satellite communications (SATCOM) is impossible as it is impossible for the inhabitants to send anything up into ...
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Why would an otherwise near future modern society have too many willing recruits attempt to join the military? [closed]
I have a setting where there are multiple factions. Conflict and war are common to a degree on the planet, however, for the most part conflict only encompasses military units. Civilians are rarely ...
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Why would a military organize service/culture based on command zone rather than branch
The US has something called the Unified Combat Command. Essentially what it does is act as a central command structure to bring in multiple different branches in a theater so that an operational ...
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An Irish monarchy and IRA [closed]
I need a change in history so in the year 2020, Ireland is ruled by a Constitutional Monarchy. It is still a catholic nation (not celtic), has a democratically elected parliament and leaders, and the ...
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Under what circumstances is a lower rank officer justified in taking over command from his superior?
I'm writing a SF military novel and at some point lieutenant takes command of forces because his own captain went crazy. The captain still gives lawful orders but he's only taking things from his own ...
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How can a foreign power make great friends with another country without altering its government, people, or autonomy? [closed]
To keep it short and sweet, this is a fictional world with a country called Vertercrank. They're an overseas empire with dangerous neighbors, taking the role of pirates and thieves. Jehor is a country ...
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Does my command structure work?
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The first 'Engev' (Emperor of Lazaeron) sees a need to unite the entire planet to defend against an alien threat, only he knows of this threat and he has no way to definitively prove this, ...
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What branch of the military could be most closely associated with fire? [closed]
The Empire of Hetkaptah, with its capitol in Alexandria, Khemet / Egyptos, dominates the modern solar system. While their science has obviously moved on from the old Platonism, allowing them to ...
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How to identify friendlies in active camouflage
One of the main difficulties that have harped militaries from prehistory to the modern day has been identifying who's your friend and who's the foe. Many solutions have been used to solve this ...
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What roles would the hierachy of a private army play in defending a town's sovereignty?
I have a town where a small private army of about 100 men (breakdown below) looks after its defense and is consulted on any major decisions concerning the town by other local groups that reside in the ...
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