Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 1335 - 762: Disarmament
Chapter 1335: Chapter 762: Disarmament
After the Alliance Government’s work report represented by Osenia ended, Gu Hang had another meeting.
The reporter was Tadeusz, the Alliance’s General Political Commissar of the Military Affairs Department, who was also responsible for military construction work.
If, in the political and economic aspects of the Alliance over the past two years, there was a great development and expansion, then for the Alliance Army, the past two years had not been very comfortable.
During the Iron Armor War and the Insect Swarm War, the scale of war was so large and the intensity so high that the entire system of the Alliance inevitably shifted towards serving the war.
The army expanded significantly, not only those sent to the front lines but also a large number of reserve forces ready to be sent to the front-line headquarters at any time, poised to form new armies to replace those lost often as entire army groups on the front lines.
But now, it’s certainly not needed to such extremes.
The war is over, and demobilization has become the mainstream.
Of course, speaking of ending, actually, in the 7109 worlds controlled by the Alliance, war can never truly subside.
On a large scale, the insect swarm infectors, losing their central command, are scattered throughout the Spiderweb Domain. Although they aren’t much of a threat, they still need to be cleared out, a process that might take ten years to thoroughly clean.
Post-war issues have always been like this. Haven’t you seen, the Iron Tooth Orc War’s main battles ended years ago, and now the northeast four-star sector of the Dragonhawk Star Domain, once controlled by the Iron Tooth Orc Empire, has become the Alliance’s major granary. But in reality, to say that orcs have been completely eradicated is hard to claim. On many planets, orc tribes still frequently appear; even in places cleared more thoroughly, an orc tribe or two occasionally pop up.
It’s been like this for a dozen to twenty years.
The difficulty in clearing insect swarm infectors is much simpler than that of orcs, but nevertheless, the scale of the remaining disaster is larger, so the time required for cleanup isn’t short.
These all require military forces to handle, but they certainly don’t need such large-scale decisive battle armies.
During the war, at its peak, the Alliance Army structured over 350 army groups, with seventy billion Alliance Army personnel on the battlefield, fighting or always ready to fight for the Alliance.
And the maintenance cost that the Alliance had to pay annually for this exceeded a hundred billion.
The Alliance Army is now very expensive. According to Star Realm Army standards, an army group with two million people, with a total cost just over 1.2 billion, already reaches the Star Realm Army’s equipment level.
Many so-called Star Realm Armies do not have equipment worth so much money.
But the cost of an Alliance army group has soared to three billion.
Various heavy bomb machine guns, plasma anti-armor guns, single soldier missiles issued to classes… Many things in the Star Realm Army are seen only at the company level or at least the platoon level;
The exoskeleton armor coverage rate is typically around 5-10%, reaching the regiment level where special assault companies with full exoskeletons carrying single soldier missiles and blast bomb guns charge, become an important force in assault battles or reclaim positions in defense battles.
The special assault team equipped with feedback-type power armor can form a complete spearhead battalion at the division level, while in a regular Star Realm Army, a whole army group might not gather so many sets.
As for armored troops, artillery troops, and army aviation troops, there is even more of a two-tier gap in firepower and vehicle quantity and quality.
Why can the Alliance Army fight?
It certainly cannot be separated from Gu Hang. He didn’t know how many Gift Points he’d spent training T5 and T4 level elite soldiers over the years, combined with the morale boost from the political commissar to the entire force, which was key to forming the Alliance Army’s formidable combat strength.
However, mental will and tactical skill cannot fully determine military fighting strength.
Money is also very important.
Based on the extremely high quality of the soldiers, coupled with more than three times the equipment financial input compared to ordinary Star Realm Army troops, that’s more crucial.
Since the Alliance is following an elite strategy, it should be pursued decisively.
But maintaining such elite troops is also very costly.
Over a hundred billion in maintenance costs, and that’s just the amount for maintaining the army’s existence and normal training during peacetime.
If war breaks out, the expenditure becomes incalculable. An ocean could be filled with the fuel spent on countless battlefields, heavy shelling as if rain, the expenditures are enormous. Not to mention, in war, people die, and the cost of compensation, replenishing troops, vehicles, and equipment…
The Empire spent over a trillion in a single Iron Armor War, proving it.
Now that the war is not being fought, yet still bearing a hundred billion in military expenses, it truly cannot be sustained.
Demobilization is inevitable.
Some troops indeed need to be cut.
The large-scale military expansion since the start of the Iron Armor War, 17 years have passed, spanned not just two but even three generations’ youths spent in war, in the military. Some older veterans who didn’t rise to officer or Sergeant Major ranks can now retire and return to farming.
Of course, veterans who have been tested by fire, some of the backbone forces certainly need to be retained.
And the soldiers being demobilized, the officers transitioning careers, they won’t go to waste either.
They also won’t really become farmers, or workers—not that there aren’t any, but ultimately the profession doesn’t match. Transitioned soldiers, who stayed with such an elite force like the Alliance Army, can contribute to planetary areas, Planetary Defense Forces, police departments, Merchant Ship Guards, or even as professional bodyguards in security companies… these all need them to demonstrate their abilities.
