Manhattan Prime Department of Defense

The Pacitalian Defence Forces (Pacitalian: Forza Combinanta dal Defenzo della Repubblica Pacitaliana) consist of 45.9 million people in uniform (including 21.7 million army, 2.1 million navy, and 4.5 million air force). In addition, approximately 675,000 serve in the special operations unit of the PDF, called the Special Attack Force Delta (SAFD), and a further 17.9 million are considered reserve forces, or active through the Pacitalian Emergency Task Force (the equivalent of the RL United States' National Guard). 294,000 of the 45.9 million are considered civilian employees. Pacitalia's defence budget equals about 3.4% of the GDP, and the current size of Pacitalia's forces equal about 1.4% of its total population of 3.3 billion (17-Nov-2005).

Alliances

Manhattan Prime is a member of:

TAPRES – Joined April 2005

Woodstock Pact – Joined September 2005

AO alliance ASPIRE – Founder Member, July 2006

Imperial Armed Forces (IAF)

The Imperial Armed Forces (the name is a remnent from MP’s time under the Emperor’s rule) are the ground forces of the Manhattanite Armed Forces. It makes up 85% of the Manhattan Prime Armed Forces and currently has 15,478,500 troops (which includes 4,643,550 support personnel).

Actual fighting strength - 10,834,950

Current Ranking Officer – General Andrew Marshall

Known bases (All staffed by 15,000 support staff):

Camp Jaden

Camp Jukassa

Camp Secura

Camp Fisto

Camp Katarn

Camp Thrawn

Manhattan Navy (MN)

The Manhattan Navy is the naval wing of the Manhattanite Armed Forces. It makes up 5% of the Manhattan Prime Armed Forces and currently has 910,500 troops (which includes 682,875 support personnel).

Actual fighting strength - 227,625

Current Ranking Officer – Admiral Chris Ryan

Vessels are named with the prefix MNS for Manhattanite Naval Ship

Manhattan Prime has traditionally fielded a very small navy and its naval technology and port facilities are quite backward. It has relied on more advanced allied nations for its military technology. Until quite recently the Navy consisted of little more than 10 Patrol Boats and 2 Frigates, all built in Leafanistan, and the navy was kept on a tight budget. The navy’s main focus then was anti-smuggling missions.

The navy was significantly scaled up in October 2005, with the purchase of 5 Holland Class Destroyers and 1 Mahan Class Destroyer Leader from Sarzonia.

A small navy was appropriate and inexpensive whilst Manhattan Prime was a smaller nation, but it is now thought that the naval situation might change soon.

Manhattan Air Force (MAF)

The Manhattan Air Force is the air wing naval wing of the Manhattanite Armed Forces. It makes up 10% of the Manhattan Prime Armed Forces and currently has 1,821,000 troops (which includes 819,450 support personnel).

Actual fighting strength - 1,001,550

Current Ranking Officer – General Michael Wilson

Known Airbases (All staffed by 7500 support staff):

MAF Colville

MAF Alanbrooke

MAF Fairfax

MAF Providence

MAF Thompson

MAF Morgan

MAF Sirius

MAF McGregor

Imperial Marine Corps (IMC)

Little is currently known about the newly founded Marine Corps.

Current Ranking Officer – General Ross Jackson

Combined Manhattan Intelligence (CMI)

CMI is Manhattan Prime military intelligence branch, and functions like the equivalent of the RL CIA. It includes a Secret Service division, for the protection of the President and the Cabinet.

CMI is sometimes informally known as MI-3, standing for Manhattan Intelligence 3 (The ‘3’ being the three branches of the armed forces it provided intelligence for; Army, Navy and Air Force).

One quirk of MI-3 is that its top 9 operatives are always given the codenames 001-009.

It is regarded as efficient, but critics have attacked its accountability, arguing that a lot of power in grouped into one large organisation, which answers directly to the President and Cabinet.

Head of MI-3 - CLASSIFIED

Military ranks

History of involvement in conflicts