Californian Federation Army

History of the Californian Federation Army

Early Beginnings (1997-2001)

Preceding the State of California's independence from the United States of America on November 19, 1999 the Californian Federation Army although a de facto military force was effectively created May 1, 1997 and was not recognized as an official branch of California's Armed Forces until the War for Independence against the United States in 2001.

By the year 2001 the then Californian Republic (now Californian Federation), passed the National Security Act of 2001 creating the Department of Defense headquartered in San Jose, California. The Department of Defense, which was composed of six branches the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines, Navy and a newly created Space Defense Force. Prior to California's independence in 1999, all of the states military functions were that of the State Militias and State Defense Forces which were maintained at the national level by the Federal Government.

In early 1997 when California's drive for independence from the United States was still in its infant stages the State of California under the leadership of then de facto president Sandra M. Devnostraeva began the initiative that eventually created the precursor to the Californian Federation Army, known as the Californian Republican Army (CRA). The CRA existence from May 1997 to September 2001 marked a new era for California's internal and foreign policies and allowed the fledgling nation the ability to defend itself from foreign threats. The main intention for the creation of the CRA was to defend the Californian Republic from a possible invasion from American forces in an attempt to force California back into the United States of America, many proponents of the CRA after the state's independence were largely members of the United States Armed Forces that did not wish to be sent to Europe to defend the allies of the United States in NATO who were fighting against the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia & Bulgaria (often termed as Balkania), and the nations of the Warsaw Pact in the conflict that came to be known as World War III.

During the United States involvement in World War III, the United States President Arnold Albert Gore Jr. allowed the peaceful secession of California from the United States of America under the Los Angeles-St. Louis Accord, under the accord all states that wanted to leave the United States to join in confederation with California peacefully were allowed to do so without any interference from the United States Armed Forces. During this time the CRA played a role in keeping the peace and maintaining civil order in the states of Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Alaska and Hawaii when those states decided to join California under the provisions of the Los Angeles-St. Louis Accord.

Up until 2001 when the Californian Republic grew to include Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, and Arkansas the CRA also grew in size absorbing former U.S. military installations within its borders along with most of the military personnel that had stayed and swore an oath of allegiance to their new nation. The Californian Republic retained the same borders from 2002 until 2009, during which time American foreign policy concerning California was that of a mutual pertnership and for the preservation of peace between the two nations.

However during the 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections that Republican Senator David Germaine Maddox won the presidency, unlike the president before him President Maddox maintained a attitude of apprehension and hostility towards the Californian Republic and made the promise that under his presidency that he would reacquire the former American states that had seceded to form the Californian Federation.

It was during this time that American forces were in Europe that domestic policies in the United States had begun to take a toll on the American people and during this time a growing number of the politicians in both houses of Congress sought to rectify the problem through an impeachment of the United States President David Germaine Maddox. However before an impeachment could be made an amendment to the Twenty-Second Amendment of the United States Constitution was made allowing the President of the United States a limitless number of presidential terms.

Finally armed conflict between the United States and the Californian Federation came in October of 2011 when President Maddox after spending three years blatantly building up American military forces for an assault against California to force those states back into the American Union at all costs.

Special Operations Forces

Prior to the war against the United States the Californian Special Operations Command (SOCOM) had began looking into development of Special Operations Forces for specialized conflicts in the near future, looking mainly into Assymetric Warfare, Unconventional Warfare, Low-Intensity Operations and Urban Combat.

Similar to the U.S. Navy's Sea, Air, Land (SEAL) forces, the Californian Military's Special Operations Forces are divided into Specialized Combat Forces which are trained in particular arenas of combat expertise ranging from Foreign Internal Defense, Urban Combat, Counter-Terrorism, Direct Action, Special Reconnaissance Operations, Unconventional Warfare, as well as Low-Intensity Operations.

Specialized Urban Military Ops Team

During this time the Californian Armed Forces created several specialized military groups, one of the more famous for its role in bringing the Californian-American War to a close being the Specialized Urban Military Ops (SUMO). Created for the sole purpose of fighting military operations on urban terrain or MOUT, the Specialized Urban Military Ops excelled in combat operations dealing with combatants entrenched in heavily populated urban areas.

During the Californian-American War when the tide of battle had turned and California's Armed Forces were repelling American forces and begining to advance east, Special Ops called on the SUMO team when American forces retreated into heavily populated cities and entrenched themselves. Entering the critical stage of combat the Specialized Urban Military Ops team was called in during the Californian Offensive of 2013 when Californian armed forces had the United States military on the retreat, after entrenching themselves in Kansas City, Jefferson, St. Louis, Omaha, Sioux Falls, Cedar Rapids, and Minneapolis-St. Paul the Californian Federation Army sent in the SUMO teams to combat the American forces within these cities.

Special Activities Division (SAD)

During years of the Californian-American War the Special Operations Commmand (SOCOM) created the Special Activites Division to keep the upper hand during the conflict and prevent an American victory by any means necessary. Trained in Counter-Terrorism, Sabotage, Guerilla Warfare, and Assassination among other methods, the Special Activities Group came into use during the final stages of the Californian-American War primarily against the upper echelon of the United States Military to weaken their chain of command and in doing so effectively maintain an advantage against the United States Armed Forces.