Military Budgets Up For Approval

[Attlantes]

I have a question with regards to the issue listed in the subject. But it will inevitably get redirected to another forum, so...I'll risk it. Why doesn't the issue (listed in this post 's subject line) concern ALL branches of the military? The U.S. has 5 (technically): Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard. The game is played globally.

[Trotterdam]

Why doesn't the issue (listed in this post 's subject line) concern ALL branches of the military? The U.S. has 5 (technically): Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard. The game is played globally.

And that's exactly it. The game is doesn't aim to simulate the military organization of the United States of America specifically. It presents a generalized guess based on the average military organization of many nations across the globe, and focusses on the most important differences.

The US is rather unusual in treating the Marines as an entire separate branch on equal standing, rather than folding it into the Army (because marines are essentially a specialized type of infantry soldier and fight similarly to other infantry - indeed, the US often deploys theirs to landlocked countries like Afghanistan) or Navy (because they deploy from ships, and are part of your overseas force projection capacity).

Note that, say, there is also a distinction between land-based air craft (usually belonging to the Air Force) and carrier-based air craft (in many nations belonging to the Navy, not to some third branch).

The Coast Guard is often only semi-military (in some nations not even part of the military at all), being more like a seagoing equivalent of the police force. When it is treated as primarily military, it's likely to be merged with the Navy.

"Land, sea, sky" is the most common division of military forces and doctrines in nations worldwide, and you should be able to squeeze whatever military emphasis you want into one of those categories, even if your nation's exact organization is different.

[Bears Armed]

Why doesn't the issue (listed in this post 's subject line) concern ALL branches of the military? The U.S. has 5 (technically): Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard. The game is played globally.

And that's exactly it. The game is doesn't aim to simulate the military organization of the United States of America specifically. It presents a generalized guess based on the average military organization of many nations across the globe, and focusses on the most important differences.

The US is rather unusual in treating the Marines as an entire separate branch on equal standing, rather than folding it into the Army (because marines are essentially a specialized type of infantry soldier and fight similarly to other infantry - indeed, the US often deploys theirs to landlocked countries like Afghanistan) or Navy (because they deploy from ships, and are part of your overseas force projection capacity).

Note that, say, there is also a distinction between land-based air craft (usually belonging to the Air Force) and carrier-based air craft (in many nations belonging to the Navy, not to some third branch).

The Coast Guard is often only semi-military (in some nations not even part of the military at all), being more like a seagoing equivalent of the police force. When it is treated as primarily military, it's likely to be merged with the Navy.

"Land, sea, sky" is the most common division of military forces and doctrines in nations worldwide, and you should be able to squeeze whatever military emphasis you want into one of those categories, even if your nation's exact organization is different.

And in the USSR, at least at one stage, the 'Strategic Missile Forces' were also a separate branch.

[Trotterdam]

And in the USSR, at least at one stage, the 'Strategic Missile Forces' were also a separate branch.

That honestly makes more sense to me than having the Marines as a separate branch.