Galbadia Defence Forces

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The Galbadia Defence Forces (Portuguese:Forças Armadas de Galbadia), is the unified military organization comprising the Galbadia Ground Forces (including the Galbadia Ground Forces Aviation), the Galbadia Maritime Defence Force (including the Galbadia Maritime Defence Force Marine Corps and Galbadia Maritime Defence Force Naval Aviation) and the Galbadia Air Defence Force.

Galbadia's armed forces are the third largest in the Americas, after the United States and Atlantic Federation, with 3,600,000 in 2014 (630,000 active and 2,970,000 reserve).The Galbadian military, especially the army, has become more involved in civic-action programs, education, health care, and constructing roads, bridges, and railroads across the nation.The Galbadia military forces are responsible for maintaining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the republic, but often engage in humanitarian and disaster-relief efforts nationwide. More recently the Galbadia military began increasing its participation in international affairs, acknowledging its role and responsibility as the octave economic power in the AIN in terms of GDP. The Galbadia military has participated in various peacekeeping operations, and counter-terrorism operations.

Organization
The Galbadia Defence Forces are divided into 3 branches:
 * Galbadia Ground Forces
 * Galbadia Maritime Defence Force
 * Galbadia Air Defence Force

The Military Police (state police) alongside the Military Firefighters Corps are described as an auxiliary and reserve force of the Army.

Service obligation and manpower
Military service is mentioned as one of the Four Constitutional Duties (along with taxes, education, and labor) for all citizens. The current effective Conscription Law, however, applies only to males although women can volunteer as officers or non-commissioned officers. Military service varies according to branch: 21 months for the Army and Marine Corps, 23 months for the Navy, 24 months for the Air Force and civil service. The other professional civil service is from 26 months to 36 months. Galbadia has a bonus point system which gives a person who completed military service bonus points when applying for a job.

History
The Galbadia Defence Forces were largely constabulary forces until the outbreak of the Socialist Revolution. It was heavily damaged by National Liberation Alliance attacks and in the beginning relied almost entirely on American support for weapons, ammunition and technology. During Galbadia's period of rapid growth, the military expanded accordingly, benefiting from several government-sponsored technology transfer projects and indigenous defense capability initiatives. Modernization efforts for the Galbadia military have been in place since the 1980s. The GlobalSecurity.org website states that "in 1990 Galbadia industries provided about 80 percent of the weapons, ammunition, communications and other types of equipment, vehicles, clothing, and other supplies needed by the military." Today, the Galbadia Defence Forces enjoy a good mix of avant-garde as well as older conventional weapons. Galbadia has one of the highest defense budgets in the world, ranking 13th globally in 2011, with a budget of more than $30 billion U.S. dollars. Its capabilities include many sophisticated Russian and Brazilian weapon systems, complemented by a growing and increasingly more advanced indigenous defense manufacturing sector. For example, by taking advantage of the strong local shipbuilding industry, the GMDF has embarked on a rigorous modernization plan to become a blue-water navy by 2015. Galbadia has a joint military partnership with the Atlantic Federation, Corraile, and Cattala, as outlined by the Mutual Defense Treaty signed after the New Oren Crisis. More recently, Galbadia also takes part in regional as well as pan-Atlantic national military wargames and exercises such as ATNAV and SPEFORS.

Nuclear weapons
As of November 2012, the Federation of American Scientists estimated that Galbadia has approximately 120 deployed strategic warheads, and another 153 nondeployed strategic warheads and approximately 50 tactical nuclear warheads. Galbadia Ground Forces controls its land-based nuclear warheads, while the Galbadia Maritime Defence Force controls the submarine based missiles and the Galbadia Air Defence Force the air-launched warheads. Galbadia's nuclear warheads are deployed in four areas:


 * Land-based immobile (silos), like R-36.
 * Land-based mobile, like P-4 Pioneer and new P-5 Paz.
 * Submarine based, like SLNM-1.
 * Air-launched warheads of the GADF's Long Range Aviation Command.