Kodiak's military strategy currently revolves around the stabilization of its borders since the beginning of the World Assembly intervention. The military doctrine published by the Minister of Defense specifically states that the Kodiak military must protect its country from external threats. The Kodiak military continues to attempt to modernize aging equipment stockpiles of Tier 3 weapon systems.

'''ARMY OVERVIEW:'''

 

The Kodiak army fields approximately 100,000 soldiers, but recruitment and budget shortfalls have resulted in many units manning only 75% of the formations. Kodiak ground forces consist primarily of mechanized infantry units, but there are some armor, airborne, and air mobile units as well. Most ground-based equipment was produced internally by a robust Kodiak military industrial complex or purchased from the international community. Recently, Kodiak ceased new purchases with a slashed budget and has relied on aging systems for decades, falling behind compared to our neighbors. Kodiak currently possesses enough funcitonal tier 2 tanks and IFVs to field four fully manned brigades, three Long Range Recon Brigades and an armored brigade. Each of these brigade reports directly to the regional operational command to which it is assigned, while the separate tank brigade reports directly to the SHQ. The mechanized divisions of each regional command are composed of three mechanized infantry brigades with IFVs and one tank brigade.

 

 

'''ARMY STRUCTURE'''

 

The maneuver brigade serves as Kodiak's basic combined arms unit. In the AFS, some maneuver brigades are constituent, or organic, to the base structure, such as divisions. The NCA calls them ''divisional brigades''. Kodiak, however, organize some units as ''separate brigades'', designed to possess greater ability to accomplish independent missions without further allocation of forces from a higher tactical-level headquarters. Separate brigades possess some subordinate units with the same force structure as a divisional brigade of the same type (for example, the headquarters); some units that are especially tailored to the needs of a separate brigade, marked “(Sep)” in the organizational directories; and some that are the same as units of this type found at division level, marked “(Div.).”

The Kodiak army designs its maneuver brigades to serve as the basis to form a brigade tactical group (BTG) if necessary. A brigade, separate or as part of a BTG, can fight as part of a division or division tactical group (DTG), a separate unit in an operational-strategic command (OSC), an organization of the AFS (such as army, corps, or military district), or as part of a field group (FG)

 

The Kodiak army has an estimated 100,000 ground troops divided into three operational commands— Eastern, Northern, and Southern. Each operational command controls a division and at least one separate brigade. Some of the maneuver brigades are assigned to the division in each operational command while the separate brigades report directly to the operational command. The Supreme High Command has three separate brigades under its direct command and located close to the capital city for internal security purposes. The separate tank brigade operates the newest equipment and these brigades are composed of the best-trained soldiers in the ground forces.

'''ARMY DOCTRINE AND TACTICS:'''