NationStates Jolt Archive

Neo-Anarchos

After long months of silence from an overworked Anarchan army administration, it seems that the new “revolutionary military” has found its feet. While no details are forthcoming about the way the armed forces are now organized, the Anarchan armed forces coordination council(AFCC) has made a statement regarding the nations special forces. Currently overlooking 30+ different national special forces groups that often have the same cross-training and objectives, reorganization is long-overdue and now finally about to be implemented. While funding remains limited thanks in part to the current economic focus on education, infrastructure creation/management and foreign trade programs; and in part to some popular resistance to new military initiatives, the AFCC is enthusiastic about it. Part of the statement includes a call to nations such as Beth Gellert, Hindustan and Spyr to share training and operational doctrines, spec-ops equipment and hold joint exercises; as well as any economic help that can be spared to the burgeoning program. Thus far, the new Special Forces groups that are planned, and what groups they will replace; are listed in this missive:


Fuerzas Especiales Anti-Terroristas Urbanas (AFEAU) - Urban Counterterrorist Special Forces

Taking it’s name from a similar pre-Anarchos Columbian Special Forces group, the AFEAU is designed to become Neo-Anarchos’ elite anti-insurgency, hostage extraction and airborne anti-hijacking federal special forces unit. Plans are underway to create an extensive training facility based around the old AFEAU’s training barracks at Facatativa, north of Bogota. Re-organizing many existing Anarchan Specops units that formerly had these tasks into 30 action groups of 25 men apiece(4 officers and 21 enlisted), and a reserve training core of 200 conscript volunteers. In the facility they will receive rigorous basic training in a wide range of disciplines, including close-quarters combat, short and long range marksmanship, hand-to-hand combat, and even air assault operations. Troopers who complete their basic training will then receive a Special Forces Occupation Specialty based equally on merit and wishes, and continue with specialized training according to their SFOS. For example, anti-airjacking and -hostage training will ensure that hostage extraction skills are developed for the major transportation scenarios including trains, busses, and a great variety of airplanes; and jungle COIN specialists will be re-assigned to train in the jungles of Suriname. Connected to many of the groups will be special detachments of dedicated sniper teams, crisis management groups and a hostage negation element. The AFEAU will formally be under the command of the Indigenous Community Police, but is expected to aid the Anarchan armed forces in conflict situations where their skills will no doubt be in demand. It is speculated that other police special units are under design to handle more specialized counterinsurgency roles, but nothing is confirmed as of yet.

Grupo de Comandos Amfibios (GCA) - Amphibious Commando Group, and Fuerza del Reconocimiento (FR) – Force Reconnaissance

A drawing together of Ecuadors frogmen and the many different Columbian SEAL-like units, the GCA will be offering a grueling 22-week course to army and naval infantry volunteers. While expected to have a high washout rate, the GCA units will provide a more elite naval unit than the Anarchan nations have had so far. Debate is still raging over whether ideological and revolutionary instruction is to be given together with operational training, the course will include basic(if needed, such as for army land fighters without such) and advanced swimming, advanced land warfare tactics, armed and unarmed close combat, boat use, demolitions, operation of a variety of small and heavy weapons, SCUBA diving with both closed- and open-circuit apparatus; as well as force leadership, surveillance and basic stealth. Recruits who succeed either receive their GCA patch and medal and join the elite GCA; or go onto a Fuerza del Reconocimiento course(along with troopers who did or did not succeed the course, but display aptitude for the course); receiving advanced stealth, boat use, observation, self-reliance, and survival training. When they have completed this they join the Force Recon battalion. Under the Naval Marine Command, the GCA and FR will have their home at the advanced naval training facility at the marine base of Cartagena.

Comando Negro De la Estrella (CNE) – Black Star Commandos

Designed to be the very star of the revolutionary special operations, the CNE will only accept members that have completed AFEAU or Force Recon training; or possibly extraordinarily skilled members of the pre-Anarchan special ops units like Colombian UNASE or Ecuador’s JME-25. Enlisted will undergo an extensive pre-screening process to ensure that they are of sufficient physical and mental endurance and strength to complete CNE training. Location of CNE training centres, the content of their training and what sort of operations the units are intended to accomplish, is entirely classified, but comparisons are being made to top-notch units like British Federal SAS, German GSG-9 and Russian Spetznaz; in that Anarchan armed forces require an elite if they are to meet conflicts in an increasingly unstable modern world. The secrecy inherent to the creation of the CNE has already caused great unrest in both civilian and military Anarchan soviets, who feel that such measures are reactionary and will only lead to revolutionary citizens distrusting one another. If citizens are truly equal, the soviets claim, who has the secret clearances besides the AFCC? How would anyone even know? The AFCC on their part has promised that the clearances are not made out of disloyalty to the revolutionary cause, but to ensure optimal secret force operation is not compromised in the face of skilled foreign spies like KGB and the dreaded French secret police.

Regimientos del Guardabosques (RG) – Ranger Regiments.

As of 2006, each Anarchan military soviet is expected to provide a number of soldiers for the Ranger Regiments. Training consists primarily of air insertion and parachuting, weapons and tactics, navigation, survival and general combat operations. Depending on former training sites, troops who complete Ranger school will enter terrain-specific special ops training, entering Jungle Fighting, Mountaineer or Urban Warfare regiments. The Ranger Regiments are expected to become the standard Spec-ops core for supporting army and air force operations. A number of air force barracks outside Quito has been designated as Ranger schools, and the search is on for sites to conduct specialized terrain training.

A variety of COE, or Centro de Operaciones Especiales, facilities are under construction now, for the training benefit of all the new special forces, each one teaching a different aspect of specops, like evasion and extraction, rural stealth, demolitions etc. to relieve what is expected to be a heavy training load on the new spec-op training centres. The training of Special Forces is expected to be a step forward for the Anarchan armed forces, reducing the massive load of soldiers currently in service who are not receiving adequate training for the aptitudes, or just taking up space in the force – It is, essentially, the first step in the AFCCs plan to seriously modernize and downsize the branches. This will be accomplished, the AFCC promise, if the Anarchan people and the progressive militaries of the world will aid and understand the cause(it is, indeed, also expected to be placed on the Anarchan agenda for the progressive conference in Zanzibar).

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OOC: Hm, this is already better organised than the Commonwealth's special forces, which I haven't addressed since the abolition of commissioned rank and the establishment of the Commonwealth Guard. Stop making me think!

While Neo-Anarchos will face few obstacles in obtaining Hindustani military hardware (such as R. 130 rocket launchers and AT. 20 and 30 series ATGWs, to name a few), Anarchan soviets will find Hindustan somewhat lacking in the field of commandos and special forces, a la SEALs and GSG-9 and whatnot.

But what the HDF does possess is excellent light infantry units. Para-sappers being one, Paras being one, and marines being the last, the HDF's light infantry is built for rapid reaction operations, primarily peacekeeping and low-intensity conflicts. The above mentioned units are also quite capable conventional units, but haven't served with Hindustani regulars in combat since the 1980s.

Such units have proven extremely useful. Eritrea, Lusaka, Colombia, and Sulawesi island are the most recent instances of successful light infantry operations, which saw Parachute units advising and leading larger forces of regulars. They can also be rapidly airlifted into a crisis spot or dropped off by a frigate. Eritrea has shown the utility of the marine units especially, with Leander frigates deploying their marine contingents to secure humanitarian aid deliveries.

Hindustani-style light infantry units might or might not be useful to Neo-Anarchos, but either way the HDF would be happy to send some advisors over to demonstrate light infantry tactics.

Moreover, the Neo-Anarchan soviets are asked if they need anything specific in the way of Hindustani armaments. While the HDF is very protective of its best systems, surplus equipment can be had at very little cost (even free!), although it is assumed that Beth Gellert more than fulfills Neo-Anarchan needs in this regard.

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OOC: Interesting...I find special forces fascinating, being a bit of a sucker for the whole concept of "a small team slipping in and causing havoc". Of course, my forces tend to be very "unorthodox", as I like to focus on the character aspect more. Still, no one can deny the effectiveness of the A-Team. They nearly started a revolution in France, killed of the French left and scores of nobility, hijacked a battle ship, and stole five billion dollars worth of gold.

ATGW capabilities in the Anarchan forces are.. Hotly debated, to quote someone in difficulty. Therefore, special forces quartermasters are very interested in knowing exactly what obstacles must be overcome to get next-generation warheads. Surplus equipment is dandy, especially for training purposes, but there is of course always an interest in what surplus equipment is available(it is not a stretch to assume some of it is better than what the forces are using now!). Advisors are extremely welcome.

With a good number of private citizens of the Commonwealth long observing and agitating in the realm of Neo-Anarchos, the Commonwealth does not find it hard to pass a number of resolutions on extensive theoretical aid and, "sensitive trade" in this case that of military equipment and weaponry.

The Commonwealth is not presently aware of any desperate or pressing need for major military aid to the South American anarchists -the threat of Roycelandian, Quinntonian, French, or other invasion, or of a reactionary counter-revolution, for example- and as such are inclined to engage favourable trade rather than out-right aid. This is related both to the size of Neo-Anarchos' civilisation and to the currently strained state of the Igovian economy, which is struggling to maintain a high state of military readiness and to rush West Bengal and Jharkhand into the modern world while reducing trade links to newly re-classified false-socialist states like Libya and Dra-pol.

The Commonwealth is also prepared to sell anti-tank guided weapons, amongst other items, and offers the BreS BGAM Totem-3T tube-launched missile, which is borne on Soviet helicopters, Land Cruisers, Infantry Combat Vehicles, and carried by anti-tank teams, and is related to the gun-launched weapon used by the MT-4 Hathi battle tank.

BRES BGAM Totem-3T Anti-Tank Guided Missile System
Primary Builder: Fort Brennus September Pwelli Ordnance Factory
Calibre: 125/1320mm
Range: 250m to 6,000m
Targeting: Detection and tracking is by optical or thermal means, and guidance by either semi-automatic command-to-line-of-sight laser or infra red depending on the operator’s choice
Warhead: Tandem HEAT or incendiary thermobaric effect
Armour Penetration (against ERA): 1,100mm with tandem HEAT warhead

Also available is the light-weight short-range disposable alternative, the JOS LATBG Fossa anti-tank rocket unit, which is quite newly being introduced to army, marine, para, GSIC, and guards units.

JOS LATBG Fossa Anti-Tank Rocket Unit
Primary Builder: January Ordnance Sumer Small Arms Factory
Calibre: 102/154mm
Range: 20m to 700m
Time of Flight: Less than three seconds to maximum range
Targeting: Predicted line-of-sight following operator’s tracking of target, unguided for quick launch
Modes of Operation: Top-attack anti-tank, direct line-of-sight attack for softer targets, and can be soft-launched in confined spaces
Magazine: Disposable weapon, optional sighting equipment may be retained after use.

The Soviet Commune is prepared to supply a much wider range of weaponry, with data forthcoming on request, ranging from the OPA BGMK3 Blast Fragmentation Grenade and the 9.3x21mm JOS BDA9 High-Power Semi-Automatic Pistol (which is of course a modern Hi-Power built in Beth Gellert for the powerful 9.3x21mm BG bottlenecked round) to the 11x72mm OPA Drosgl Medium-Heavy Machinegun and oddly-named Yellow-38 Heavy Sniping Rifle, and of course the JaF and MAL MANPADS, IR-guided Terrier and optically-guided Sumpit respectively. Presently, the Commonwealth is considering the possibility of replacing its standard infantry arms, the 6x41mm Carnyx bullpup assault rifle and a 6x41mm Negev copy LMG, which may as a result become available in large numbers.

However, the Soviet Commune is said to be thinking of raising the issue of possible standardisation of munitions used across the progressive world when its delegates speak at Zanzibar, and may hold-on to its small-arms until testing the waters in this regard.

Perhaps outside the special forces domain, the Commune is equally prepared to export battle tanks, trucks, field-guns, fighter planes, frigates, and surface-to-air missiles to Neo-Anarchos.

The Commonwealth is open to debate on the mechanism of possible trade or sale, as yet knowing little about the new anarchist economy. In Beth Gellert, most major military equipment is built in industrial districts within old cities, by workers who manage the day-to-day running of their own factories by democratic means and consult with the Soviet Commune (a military body) and with the Final Senate (arguably a national union of all citizens as opposed to the factory's union of its own workers) in regard to international trade. These workers live with comrades and family at the many phalansteries around Beth Gellert, which contain their own light industries and engage in a degree of internal economic competition with one another, and the phalansteric industries are generally taxed (though this is rarely the term applied) by the Commonwealth Professional Civil Service under Senate review in order to pay the wages of the CPCS, the regular military, and to sustain provident funds for phalansteries in at-risk industries and supplement the earnings of factories that often find their export deals blocked by the Senate.

At this point, the Soviet Commune and the Final Senate have agreed with the manufacturing unions in the armaments sector that Neo-Anarchos is a perfectly acceptable destination for Beddgelen weaponry, and the Union Consuls and Senate-enabled Consuls are now travelling frequently to South America in hopes of working out possible deals. The Commonwealth does not make huge export earnings, especially on finished goods, but does commonly export humanitarian, technical, and military aid and both sells and exchanges items judged unique and specific to their nation of origin, or as specialties. Various fine tea blends, national foods and alcoholic beverages, and artistic items in the main. Most imports and exports are in raw materials, and the Commonwealth's primary interest in Neo-Anarchan exports is directed at Venezuela's oil, which it used to acquire from the former regime in exchange for armaments and cash.

Paying tens of dollars per barrel of crude was never something that sat well with the Commonwealth, which frankly was relieved when the sham socialist government crumbled. The point now though is that Beth Gellert is frankly unlikely to pay over the odds again, with Beddgelen reserves tapped without the need to pay billionaire executives and the same expected of trading partners.

The Commonwealth now needs to find out how trade will be conducted in the progressive world, an idea that may be a major part of the Zanzibar conference.

Neo-Anarchan special forces are relatively well-equipped besides the ATGW/MANPAD shortage, but suffer from a shortage of aircraft and vehicles suitable for special operations. In fact, apart from a variety of specialized Elian EA-24 helicopters, air insertions are currently specified to be carried out by C-3 transport planes or old Hueys and what few Quinntonian Apache helicopters are available.

Small arms in the general Anarchan armed forces are plentiful, but the forces are generally too large and poorly trained. While individual national armed forces were well-trained before the existance of Neo-Anarchos; the new defense reforms that either return forces to guard their homes in small batallion-size units or integrate them in large pan-Anarchan units with forces that have incompatible training or specialization; efficiency has suffered. Thus, training consultants for both spec-forces and standard forces are both desired from the more experienced Bedgellan military.

The Neo-Anarchan economy is currently both empowered by and suffering under the so-called panarchist synthesis, that with the market economy destroyed, several economic systems are currently in effect and working; with contradictive and interesting results. A planned economy is managed by the designated economic collectives, who consist of former economists-turned-anarcho-communists. However, the planned economy faces resistance from the worker-managed communes at large becuase of centralization - It is considered an undue monopoly on economic authority, even though all plan-economic decisions are subject to approval by popular vote. Day-to-day Anarchan production and distribution of goods works most of all like a gift economy. Co-ordinated by the anarchist labour unions on a federal scale, goods are sent to where they are needed for consumption or processing.

Work is shared and most, if not all sectors have shorter work days than they used to. The exact division of work would take me a volume to explain, but current reforms are, in short, trying to maximise worker control and make all time(particular the time spent working) a time of liberty and allow the concrete freedoms Anarchan citizens have to find expression in creative activity. It is generally planned that once the unpleasant notion of "work" is abolished, work happiness and efficiency will rise and meet the needs of the federal gift economy, and hopefully also the national planned economy.

Currently, all currencies are replaced with the Anarchan dollar(the name more a recognition of what most of the Anarchan nations chose to name their national currencies), worth approx. one fourth of a US dollar. It is not really used inside Neo-Anarchos but has been retained since the revolution as the only ready means of trading with other nations apart from rough bartering. Unless Beth Gellert is willing to barter goods directly in exchange for Anarchan oil, they can get it for 35 Anarchan dollars per barrel, with no additional processing charges. Also, recognizing what is really important, the Bethgellans will be able to procure Anarchan coffee and sugar at favorable prices.

Currently, both ATGW designs, as well as the Terrier and Sumpit MPSAMs are desired; as might the Yellow-38(apart from what few Barrett light .50s are available, sniper functions are carried out with the generally poor performance of Roycelandian jungle carbines and sniper-configured SMLEs). It is very possible that Beddgellan aircraft, battle tanks and naval craft will be eyed by ambitious Anarchan commanders in the future, but currently only the special forces are approved for a change of equipment.

After a short review of HDF stocks, Parliament complies a list of available HDF-issue equipment.

With TC. 4 initial production models entering service in the 7th Armored Regiment, the TC. 3 fleet should be almost wholly available for overseas users. The TC. 3, while being replaced in Hindustani service, is a much better vehicle than the M113 (at least those that the HDF has seen and had in service at one time or another), MT-LB, and FV432, and is better protected than all the BMP variants (at least when they are without applique armor). It is easy to maintain and reliable, and can mount a very wide variety of weapons systems, including mortars, 60mm high-velocity guns, SAMs, and MRLs.

HAL-produced Hunters, MiG-21s, Andovers, Strikemasters, Mi-8s, and Alouette IIIs are also available for Neo-Anarchan usage. All that is needed is production run requests.

Beddgelen oil consumption is still generally around 2.1million barrels per day: though it had been falling, the recent jump in population and associated attempt at industrialisation of the excess millions, along with unusually high military activity stopped that trend. Native production is typically just over 500,000 barrels. Something in the area of one and a half million barrels are as such the normal requirement without accounting for gradual stock-piling of emergency reserves. Very limited quantities come from nations like Libya (formerly a great deal came from there) and possibly a trickle from North Yaman and other minor sources.

CIA factbook Venezuelan total oil exports in 2001 almost exactly matched total Commonwealth consumption, by some coincidence! Plus three or four hundred thousand from Ecuador (which alone has reserves estimated slightly higher than all of BG's). As Igo intends to raise at the conference (which I've finally started writing a new post on...but...Dr.Who and battered cod will distract me before I get it posted...) issues such as the industrial development of NA without further harming the rainforest et cetera, so Consuls remain a little bit less than decisive when skirting around trade ideas.

However, BG's commitment to reduced oil consumption is a very gradual affair (since the expansion, anyway), with most comrades feeling that they're doing pretty well to maintain a strong industrial base with three hundred -now over four hundred- million people on consumption more akin to that of much smaller Brazil or Canada... as a result, the Commonwealth is prepared to take up the vast staple majority of NA oil exports (of course that description is not appropraite if you decide to jack up production for some reason), starting around 1.6m barrels per day and aiming to decline to 1.4m in a vague time frame perhaps around a decade.

Whether or not that full deal is accepted, the revenue ought to be more than sufficient to pay for all the Soviet weapons that could be desired. As it is not expected that the Anarchans will require A$56million a day given the nature of their economy, it is hoped that some barter arrangement can be included. Presumably such Igovian exports as cement, along with machine tools and other implements of construction and the building of a society might be of use in the short term, but these details matter relatively little right now.

As to the basic details -incase you should care- of the mentioned weapons, they are as follows and built the Igovian way (to function and keep on functioning, not to win orders):

OPA LSB Yellow-38 Sniper Rifle
Primary Builder: October Port Alfred Ordnance Factory
Calibre: 11x72mm
Accurate Range: 1,600m
Operation: Bolt action
Magazine: 6 round box

MAL BGMAS Sumpit Man-Portable Surface-to-Air Missile System
Primary Builder: March Alaric Aviation Plant
Calibre: 125mm missile
Range: 350m to 7,500m
Ceiling: 4,000m
Speed: Mach 4
Guidance: Optical
Warhead: Twin darts with individual guidance circuits and high-density explosive penetrating delay warheads
Propulsion: Two-stage solid-fuel rocket with smokless sustainer
Mode of Attack: Terminal-phase kinetic separation and flight to target of twin darts with immunity to chaff and flares.

JaF MMABG Terrier Man-Portable Surface-to-Air Missile System
Primary Builder: January Fort Brennus Aviation Plant
Range: 300m to 8,000m
Ceiling: 4,000m+
Speed: Mach 2.4+
Guidance: Microprocessor-intelligent two-band IR/UV seeker
Warhead: 2.1kg HE with tungsten pellets
Propulsion: Two-stage solid-fuel rocket

Proven to be handy for doing away with those pesky Spitfires...

(Remind me again to invite NA special forces along on shady GSIC missions when I'm not running off to stuff my face with cod and chips)

((Invite NA spec-ops on shady GSIC missions! And stop stuffing your face, young man.))

(Dude, seriously, 35 minutes from now I'm picking-up my first cod and chips for three weeks. That timing is really something! ;) )

((Dude, telegram me anyway!! I have plans for great spec-op instigated mayhem))