World of Tesla (OOC, Apps, AH, FT, Nation/Character RP)

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

Reserve quebec and Newfoundland/Larbabor

Reserved.

[Arvenia]

Player Name: Arvenia
Organization Name: New Luddites
Flag: British Neo-Luddite Flag
Leader(s): Unknown
Ideologies: Neo-Luddism, Conservatism, Religious Fanaticism, Radical Enviromentalism, Human Survivalism, Anti-Industrial Sentiment, Pro-Agrarianism, Anti-Globalism, Anti-Corporatism, Antisemitism (allegedly), Global Pacifism and Anti-Imperialism
Type of Organization: Secret Society/Terrorist Organization
Goals: Eradicate technology and return to pre-industrial society
Number of Members: Circa 20,000-80,000 (predominantly nobles, military personnel, spies (who carries out espionage against corporations, pro-technological organizations and pro-technological governments), politicians, farmers, factory workers, experts (they are simply experts on explosives, intelligence and general persuassion), former corporation employees, religious people and business people)
Economic Strength: Rich (maybe due to noble heritage and financial support from religious institutions and millionaires)
Military Strength: Unknown (New Luddites are currently engaged in sabotage, assassination, blackmail, recruitment and propaganda)
Allies: Religious organizations (such as the Catholic Church and the Old Order Brethren), millionaires (financial support), communist revolutionaries (allegedly) and European nobility (predominantly British)
Enemies: Tech-making corporations (such as the Yerkes-Tesla Foundation), pro-technological organizations and pro-technological governments
History:

In the beginning of the 20th century, people were uncertain about technology when Tesla and Yerkes invented the first wireless transmitter in 1902. While most people separately accepted technology, venerated technology, abused technology, were neutral towards technology and had a negative, yet soft, view on technology, a few people, mainly in the UK, took their negative sentiment towards technology for an extremist turn. A group of British noblemen in the UK set up a secret network of technophobes who are referred to as the "New Luddites" as synonymous with the "Old Luddites" of the 18th century. The New Luddites started in the UK and spread to the European mainland, the US, the Middle East, Japan and rest of the British Empire. Their goal was to rid the world of technology and then revive the pre-industrial society that existed before the first Industrial Revolution. The New Luddites started out as a secret network of people fighting technology through pampleths, senders (insändare) and boycotts. Popular support was low and the New Luddites ridiculed by both commoners, governments and corporations. However, as the Great War ravaged Europe, Africa, the Ottoman Empire and the Chinese city of Qingdao through the use of Teslan technology, popular support for the New Luddites increased and the movement ideologically shifted towards anti-technological terrorism. The New Luddites began carrying out sabotage against corporations, hospitals and shops, assassination against corporate heads, pro-technological politicians and government officials, blackmailing of corporate employees, government officials, hospital personnel and pro-technological politicians, recruitment of people destined to do their bidding and propaganda through newspapers, films and public speeches. The New Luddites received support from religious people such as Amish, Mennonites, Catholics and Evangelical enviromentalists (aka Evangelical environmentalists), millionaires (mainly businessmen and organized crime syndicates), socialist revolutionaries (mainly communist politicians and dissatisfied factory workers) and European noble families (mainly British ones). The New Luddites mainly targets corporations who manufactures technology (primarily the Yerkes-Tesla Foundation), national governments (including government agencies and armed forces) who uses technology and organizations who supports technology (such as the North American "technocracy movement").

The New Luddites had at least attempted to committ terrorism against various tech fairs until the Great War. However, the New Luddites successfully conducted two acts of terror after the Great War: One that was the first act of terror against the Yerkes-Tesla Foundation, and another involving an annual technology fair in Poland. In 1920, a factory in England belonging to the Yerkes-Tesla Foundation was blown up by a set of dynamites hidden underneath it. The bombing was devastating and claimed at least 20 lives while injuring more than 100 and costing the YTF a lot of money. In 1926, the annual Poznań International Fair in Poland was attacked by at least 16 people disguised as normal people and merchants. They were all armed with bolt-action rifles, pistols, Tommy Guns, shotguns (both pump-action and double-barreled), frags and batons (used to break stuff). They claimed at least 45 lives, both civilian and security-based, before being stopped by Polish law enforcement, but not until one of the perpetrators manages to kill a Polish police officer with a shotgun. Technophobic violence also targeted Jewish businesses who financed and manufactured technology, causing the New Luddites to be accused of antisemitism and later lose Jewish support.

Both the English factory explosion and the Polish fair attack were the New Luddites' major acts of terror, which were rather blamed on different people as the English factory explosion was blamed on radical communists (it was sometimes blamed on a corporate rival to the Yerkes-Tesla Foundation and a former YTF employee gone vengeful) and the Polish fair attack was blamed on Germans.

Minor acts of terror by the New Luddites includes attacks against Jewish businesses across the US from 1924 to 1928, the assassination of Alexander Bogdanov in 1928 (which alerted the Soviet government), a bombing that destroyed half of a "secular" hospital and injured a few people in Lyon, France, and a vicious attack on the headquarters of a German political party who advocated for technocratic rule in post-imperial Germany based on the American model by Howard Scott. There were also attempted acts of terror by the New Luddites such as an attempt to murder the Rothschild family (who was Jewish and allegedly gave financial support to tech-making corporations), an attempt to murder Henry Ford (who revolutionized the vehicular industry with cars), an attempt to rob a bank that was financially connected to the Yerkes-Tesla Foundation and an attempt to blow up the MIT in Massachussetts, USA for being involved in technology and possibly "anti-Christian sentiment" (according to Christians who supported the New Luddites).

The New Luddites did many acts of violence in order to achieve their goal of creating a technology-free world, but various governments couldn't do something about them since the New Luddites were secretive and their motives considered bizarre by most people except for corporations and the "technocracy movement" in the USA, plus the USSR became aware of the New Luddites through the assassination of Alexander Bogdanov in 1928 and most Anabaptists such as Amish and Mennonites distanced themselves from the New Luddites due to terrorism being used as a way to end "technological oppression" following the Great War. The group uses money received from millionaires and religious organizations to buy firearms and explosives, as well as bribing people such as businessmen, scientists, scholars, doctors, politicians and war veterans. The money is also used to financially support poor farmers throughout the UK, the US, Sweden and Eastern Europe.

Despite the infamous acts of violence in the late 1910s and the entire 1920s, the New Luddites still enjoys both strong popular support and protection from prosecution by national governments. The noble families who are involved in the movement have their involvement kept secret from both the British monarchy and various government agencies such as the Scotland Yard thanks to their social connections. The New Luddites awaits for a global revolution against technology once diplomacy fails and technophobia increases internationally.

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

Player Name: Arvenia
Organization Name: New Luddites
Flag: British Neo-Luddite Flag
Leader(s): Unknown
Ideologies: Neo-Luddism, Conservatism, Religious Fanaticism, Radical Enviromentalism, Human Survivalism, Anti-Industrial Sentiment, Pro-Agrarianism, Anti-Globalism, Anti-Corporatism, Antisemitism (allegedly), Global Pacifism and Anti-Imperialism
Type of Organization: Secret Society/Terrorist Organization
Goals: Eradicate technology and return to pre-industrial society
Number of Members: Circa 20,000-80,000 (predominantly nobles, military personnel, spies (who carries out espionage against corporations, pro-technological organizations and pro-technological governments), politicians, farmers, factory workers, experts (they are simply experts on explosives, intelligence and general persuassion), former corporation employees, religious people and business people)
Economic Strength: Rich (maybe due to noble heritage and financial support from religious institutions and millionaires)
Military Strength: Unknown (New Luddites are currently engaged in sabotage, assassination, blackmail, recruitment and propaganda)
Allies: Religious organizations (such as the Catholic Church and the Old Order Brethren), millionaires (financial support), communist revolutionaries (allegedly) and European nobility (predominantly British)
Enemies: Tech-making corporations (such as the Yerkes-Tesla Foundation), pro-technological organizations and pro-technological governments
History:

In the beginning of the 20th century, people were uncertain about technology when Tesla and Yerkes invented the first wireless transmitter in 1902. While most people separately accepted technology, venerated technology, abused technology, were neutral towards technology and had a negative, yet soft, view on technology, a few people, mainly in the UK, took their negative sentiment towards technology for an extremist turn. A group of British noblemen in the UK set up a secret network of technophobes who are referred to as the "New Luddites" as synonymous with the "Old Luddites" of the 18th century. The New Luddites started in the UK and spread to the European mainland, the US, the Middle East, Japan and rest of the British Empire. Their goal was to rid the world of technology and then revive the pre-industrial society that existed before the first Industrial Revolution. The New Luddites started out as a secret network of people fighting technology through pampleths, senders (insändare) and boycotts. Popular support was low and the New Luddites ridiculed by both commoners, governments and corporations. However, as the Great War ravaged Europe, Africa, the Ottoman Empire and the Chinese city of Qingdao through the use of Teslan technology, popular support for the New Luddites increased and the movement ideologically shifted towards anti-technological terrorism. The New Luddites began carrying out sabotage against corporations, hospitals and shops, assassination against corporate heads, pro-technological politicians and government officials, blackmailing of corporate employees, government officials, hospital personnel and pro-technological politicians, recruitment of people destined to do their bidding and propaganda through newspapers, films and public speeches. The New Luddites received support from religious people such as Amish, Mennonites, Catholics and Evangelical enviromentalists (aka Evangelical environmentalists), millionaires (mainly businessmen and organized crime syndicates), socialist revolutionaries (mainly communist politicians and dissatisfied factory workers) and European noble families (mainly British ones). The New Luddites mainly targets corporations who manufactures technology (primarily the Yerkes-Tesla Foundation), national governments (including government agencies and armed forces) who uses technology and organizations who supports technology (such as the North American "technocracy movement").

The New Luddites had at least attempted to committ terrorism against various tech fairs until the Great War. However, the New Luddites successfully conducted two acts of terror after the Great War: One that was the first act of terror against the Yerkes-Tesla Foundation, and another involving an annual technology fair in Poland. In 1920, a factory in England belonging to the Yerkes-Tesla Foundation was blown up by a set of dynamites hidden underneath it. The bombing was devastating and claimed at least 20 lives while injuring more than 100 and costing the YTF a lot of money. In 1926, the annual Poznań International Fair in Poland was attacked by at least 16 people disguised as normal people and merchants. They were all armed with bolt-action rifles, pistols, Tommy Guns, shotguns (both pump-action and double-barreled), frags and batons (used to break stuff). They claimed at least 45 lives, both civilian and security-based, before being stopped by Polish law enforcement, but not until one of the perpetrators manages to kill a Polish police officer with a shotgun. Technophobic violence also targeted Jewish businesses who financed and manufactured technology, causing the New Luddites to be accused of antisemitism and later lose Jewish support.

Both the English factory explosion and the Polish fair attack were the New Luddites' major acts of terror, which were rather blamed on different people as the English factory explosion was blamed on radical communists (it was sometimes blamed on a corporate rival to the Yerkes-Tesla Foundation and a former YTF employee gone vengeful) and the Polish fair attack was blamed on Germans.

Minor acts of terror by the New Luddites includes attacks against Jewish businesses across the US from 1924 to 1928, the assassination of Alexander Bogdanov in 1928 (which alerted the Soviet government), a bombing that destroyed half of a "secular" hospital and injured a few people in Lyon, France, and a vicious attack on the headquarters of a German political party who advocated for technocratic rule in post-imperial Germany based on the American model by Howard Scott. There were also attempted acts of terror by the New Luddites such as an attempt to murder the Rothschild family (who was Jewish and allegedly gave financial support to tech-making corporations), an attempt to murder Henry Ford (who revolutionized the vehicular industry with cars), an attempt to rob a bank that was financially connected to the Yerkes-Tesla Foundation and an attempt to blow up the MIT in Massachussetts, USA for being involved in technology and possibly "anti-Christian sentiment" (according to Christians who supported the New Luddites).

The New Luddites did many acts of violence in order to achieve their goal of creating a technology-free world, but various governments couldn't do something about them since the New Luddites were secretive and their motives considered bizarre by most people except for corporations and the "technocracy movement" in the USA, plus the USSR became aware of the New Luddites through the assassination of Alexander Bogdanov in 1928 and most Anabaptists such as Amish and Mennonites distanced themselves from the New Luddites due to terrorism being used as a way to end "technological oppression" following the Great War. The group uses money received from millionaires and religious organizations to buy firearms and explosives, as well as bribing people such as businessmen, scientists, scholars, doctors, politicians and war veterans. The money is also used to financially support poor farmers throughout the UK, the US, Sweden and Eastern Europe.

Despite the infamous acts of violence in the late 1910s and the entire 1920s, the New Luddites still enjoys both strong popular support and protection from prosecution by national governments. The noble families who are involved in the movement have their involvement kept secret from both the British monarchy and various government agencies such as the Scotland Yard thanks to their social connections. The New Luddites awaits for a global revolution against technology once diplomacy fails and technophobia increases internationally.

Hello. That's a great app. Accepted.

[Jiyon]

When does the IC go up?

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

When does the IC go up?

By the end of the day, or tommorow based on how much free time I manage to get.

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

IC is here: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=422130

[Duestchstien]

Correct me if I make wrong but would this be the correct music style of the era?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C6-TWRn0k4I

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

Correct me if I make wrong but would this be the correct music style of the era?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C6-TWRn0k4I

I believe something lighter on the beat would be more "mainstream" but this is not out of the question.

[Duestchstien]

Correct me if I make wrong but would this be the correct music style of the era?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C6-TWRn0k4I

I believe something lighter on the beat would be more "mainstream" but this is not out of the question.

Inthink this tracks a bit lighter.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W3IEpeq90N8

[Duestchstien]

Wait no!

This is perfect! Absolutely Perfect!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RhuqGt4LSLQ

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

Wait no!

This is perfect! Absolutely Perfect!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RhuqGt4LSLQ

That's it :-)

[Plzen]

IC is here: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=422130

You may wish to put a link to the IC thread on the original post of the OOC thread.

[Plzen]

IC post up. I didn't really do anything in the IC post, but I wanted to write something so I could tag the IC thread. Also I wanted to write something sort of in the theme of this RP. I don't know if I succeeded. I'm not a very good writer. I sort of spliced together a general description of the Shanghai International Settlement with the actual events happening in the IC post. Let me know if that style is too jarring.

Unless something happens that I need to respond to or have a better idea later, my next IC post will likely be a similar slice-of-life theme-setting post, this time set in the Scandinavian homelands.

I sincerely hope that someone applies for the other major nations (France, Germany, and China come to mind) soon.

[Arvenia]

I will post soon.

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

IC post up. I didn't really do anything in the IC post, but I wanted to write something so I could tag the IC thread. Also I wanted to write something sort of in the theme of this RP. I don't know if I succeeded. I'm not a very good writer. I sort of spliced together a general description of the Shanghai International Settlement with the actual events happening in the IC post. Let me know if that style is too jarring.

Unless something happens that I need to respond to or have a better idea later, my next IC post will likely be a similar slice-of-life theme-setting post, this time set in the Scandinavian homelands.

I sincerely hope that someone applies for the other major nations (France, Germany, and China come to mind) soon.

It was great, we miss such posts in most of the RP's.

[Plzen]

Here's a draft of my next IC post. I'm very open to comments, so that I can make it better before I finish it up and post it on the IC thread.

EDIT: -snip- it's up!

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

Jiyon, have you written that letter to YTF, or it will be written in your next post? I want to know whether to include an answer in my next post.

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

Here's a draft of my next IC post. I'm very open to comments, so that I can make it better before I finish it up and post it on the IC thread.

"Pre-industrial military thought has been about the accomplishment of one or two victories: using the army to capture the enemy's cities, or using the navy to starve the enemy's cities. But no military will survive for long without effectively grasping the newly emerging third way of victory: using the air force to make the enemy's cities cease to exist."

- Torsten Friis (1914), then Swedish Air Force

Scandinavia's New Army Reforms, 1921 and onwards

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Introduction

The Scandinavian Armed Forces has made several drastic revisions in its military structure and doctrine in the 1920s, aimed primarily at adapting the Scandinavian Armed Forces to what Chief Friis of the Scandinavian Air Force has once described as the "incredible pace of industrialised warfare." The revisions are collectively referred to as the New Army Reforms, which has by and large accomplished two major aims: improvements in internal communications, and the tight integration of the air force to the rest of the Scandinavian military. Although the effectiveness of the new military doctrines have never been seen in battle against another industrialised power, most observers agree that the aggressive pace of the reforms, kept up throughout the entirety of the '20s, have left Scandinavia with the most flexible and mobile militaries in the world.

Causes

Although the New Army Reforms did not begin until 1921, certain factors in play before that time contributed heavily to the decision of the Scandinavian Armed Forces to undertake this reform and to the sheer pace of the reforms once it began. Without these factors, it is questionable whether the New Army Reforms would have been possible or, even if possible, effective.

The first and perhaps the most important factor is the abolishment of conscription in Scandinavia in 1919. The number of soldiers available to the Scandinavian Armed Forces shrank drastically. This created a strong necessity to produce force multipliers, or means of allowing a small military to be as effective as a larger one, which forced the Scandinavian High Command to introduce innovative doctrines and equipment that they have not yet otherwise considered in order to make the small Scandinavian military competitive. Furthermore, the abolishment of conscription freed up a tremendous amount of military resources. Without the necessity to feed, clothe, house, and arm tens of thousands of conscripts every year, the Armed Forces had the resources necessary to commit to some highly expensive ventures. In many ways, ironically, the downsizing of the Scandinavian Armed Forces provided both the necessity and the means of building a much more effective military force.

The second and perhaps equally as important factor is the rapid advancement of technology, including military technology, in the late 19th and early 20th century. Military aeronautics, armoured vehicles, wireless communications, poison gas, electronic mass production, and airships were all introduced to Europe in the years between 1890 to 1920. New technology enabled the use of new tactics, around which new doctrines could be created. Because of Scandinavia's comparatively high military spending when compared to the number of soldiers it actually fields, the Scandinavian Armed Forces were always faster than other militaries in adopting these latest equipments, and therefore has had a longer period of time to establish these new doctrines. This was especially so because during the chaos of the Great War and its aftermath, many of the European great powers had to dedicate huge resources that might otherwise have contributed to innovation to simply maintaining their massive conscripted armies.

The third factor is the Finnish War of Independence, 1917-1920. Although officially, Scandinavia remained a neutral party to the war between the Finnish revolutionaries and the newly emerged Soviet Union, unofficially, thousands of Scandinavian citizens, including many reservist or retired soldiers and officers of the Scandinavian Armed Forces, volunteered to fight in favour of Finnish independence in the difficult years after the Great War. This resulted in the introduction of a great deal of first-hand experience in a highly mobile war where communication and infrastructural difficulties seriously constrained the effectiveness of military units. The natural result was a growing perception, within the military, of a strong necessity to solve what many returning volunteers saw as flaws in the Scandinavian military.

The fourth and final factor is the creation of a unified Scandinavian military force in 1914. This resulted in a haphazard merger of three different military forces with different customs, doctrines, cultures, and traditions. The new military force, with no established traditions, naturally had a much smaller conservative impetus to preserve those traditions and was much more open to the establishment of unconventional doctrines and structures. Free and open discussion about what sort of traditions and doctrines should be introduced into the military, something that is usually not possible in the rigid hierarchical structures of most modern militaries, resulted in the rapid adoption of those doctrines made possible by the advancement of technology.

1. Aerial Infantry and the Quest for Air Superiority

Those changes in the Scandinavian military that are now called the New Army Reforms began with the Scandinavian Air Force's decision to purchase ten 230-ton commercial airships from Kongsberg Aerospace and, instead of spreading these out across supply elements across the Scandinavian Armed Forces as would have been usual by Great War standards, simply creating a new transport wing with these ten airships. Collectively capable of transporting a brigade of infantry, along with its support elements and equipment, from Bergen to Viipuri in a day, the new transport wing gave the Scandinavian Army unprecedented mobility. It was not very long before High Command realised the strategic potential of such capabilities. The two regiments of Guards that the Scandinavian Army maintained, considered somewhat of a relic of the past at that time, was given a new role. It was a role never seen before in the history of warfare: that of aeronautical infantry.

Chief Torsten Friis of the Scandinavian Air Force famously remarked in 1921 that "one cannot build trenches in the sky." Consequently, he believed, the sky presents the ultimate potential for unstoppable flanking and infiltration manoeuvres. The reformed Guard regiments were given landing capability. Theoretically, in time of war, the Guard regiments could, under intense air support from both the transport wing itself and the rest of the Scandinavian Air Force, conduct a rapid landing in hostile territory, and create a pocket of friendly territory deep behind enemy lines, wreaking havoc with enemy communications and logistics. Such a pocket could then be supplied and maintained by that very same transport wing and, when deemed no longer necessary, be evacuated again by air. At the time, this was a revolutionary doctrine.

The potential represented by this new means of waging warfare was so great, in fact, that the Scandinavian Armed Forces deemed it absolutely unacceptable that Scandinavia did not possess the means to protect itself should the enemy use this very same doctrine against it. The fact that no other nation had that doctrine or could use it effectively was, ultimately, of no concern to the Scandinavian Air Force. The Scandinavian Council approved a massive increase to the budget of the Scandinavian Air Force, at the cost of the Navy. Holding air superiority in any war became a priority. The Scandinavian Air Force grew from 47 combat craft in 1919 through 260 combat craft in 1923, then again to 510 combat craft in 1925.

The greatest drawback of the transport wing, however, was its vulnerability. Relying as it did on large helium balloons for lift, the transport airships were vulnerable from attack by even those enemies that could not seriously contest Scandinavian air superiority. The solution to this came in the form of custom-ordered Samväldet-class aerial fortresses. They were heavily armoured vessels capable of sustaining its own lift via electric means, by which Scandinavia could project with relative safety air superiority deep into hostile terrain. Consequently, since the transport wing would stay on the fortress during the transport and be used only in liftoff and landing, the risk from interception by enemy aircraft and anti-air artillery was dramatically reduced.

Over the years, both the size and quantity of the transport airships commissioned by the Scandinavian Air Force grew, and as of 1930 stands at 38,400 tons of total lift capacity - enough to transport an entire infantry division with ample supplies if need be.

2. An Army on Wheels and Spjutspets Doctrine

At the same time, mobility on the ground was greatly increased. No army could be useful if it could not be present at the location of the battle. With the development of faster, oil or electricity powered warships and, even more concerningly, durable airships, the Scandinavian military leadership began to realise the futility of defending Scandinavia's long coastline with traditional infantry and artillery. The coastlines were painfully long, and no amount of air superiority could repel an enemy landing once it was already on Scandinavian territory. Consequently, the Scandinavian Armed Forces made the decision to completely motorise the coastal artillery brigades.

After a series of contests, in 1924 a design for a 175mm howitzer that could be carried on a standard four-wheeled military cargo truck was developed, and production began the very next year. The idea was that no ship could approach well-prepared coastal defences armed with ferocious artillery pieces and, if the artillery pieces themselves were mobile, then any stretch of suitable coast could be prepared into such defences.

At the same time, the idea of motorised infantry was developed overseas, and spread into Scandinavian military thought. The strategic mobility provided by a rapid infantry army in being able to attack unexpectedly and avoid hostile breakthroughs, could not be underestimated. Furthermore, the superiority of British and French armour to their Scandinavian equivalents greatly concerned the Scandinavian military high command. The possibility of a lightning armoured campaign overwhelming Scandinavia's ability to react to such an attack remained. Although Scandinavia's growing air force provided one solution to this problem, the Scandinavian High Command nonetheless decided to reform the 1st and 2nd Infantry Divisions into Motorised Divisions. Several real changes to the division's equipment was made to accompany the name change. Over 1923-1926, the entire army was motorised. Infantry and all of its support elements could simply be loaded on a truck and relocated elsewhere. Armoured cars were also provided for lead elements that may have to move under hostile fire. To maximise the offensive potential of these new and mobile divisions, what little armour the Scandinavian Army possessed were concentrated into these two divisions in 1925 and when rocket artillery was first introduced to Scandinavia in 1928, these divisions had the first priority on the allocation of this new weapon.

The Scandinavian High Command was highly desirous of shifting the focus of warfare back from attrition to manoeuvre to minimise Scandinavia's chief disadvantage in wartime - its small population and its consequently small ability to reinforce its existing army. Due to this concern, with highly mobile units at its disposal and with the extreme shortage of manpower its chief concern, the Scandinavian High Command developed a doctrine that utterly overturns the established wisdom of the Great War. The new Spjutspets doctrine focused on the crushing concentration of intense firepower. Instead of spreading offensive elements across the front, offensive elements like rocket artillery and armour would be concentrated into their own brigades, which could be used as spearheads to destroy a limited section of the enemy front, leading to a breakthrough and hopefully an encirclement. At the same time, the aerial fortresses and the transport wings could be used to disrupt enemy operations deep into enemy territory and establish pockets of friendly territory whenever necessary. The result aimed for was an incredibly mobile and brutally rapid campaign that would utterly overwhelm the enemy's ability to respond through mass encirclements and severe disruptions of enemy communications, logistics, and leadership.

3. Communications: A War of Information

Both the development of aerial warfare and highly mobile ground warfare could only be effective if certain conditions were met: that the involved units themselves could actively react to the rapidly developing situation. Speed was wasted if the units did not know themselves where they would be the most effective. The Scandinavian High Command, therefore, was greatly concerned with improving the military's ability to rapidly adapt to shifting circumstances.

The first few policies passed to that effect were purely mechanical. Each regiment was provided radio equipment in 1922. As the years passed by and smaller, cheaper, and more effective communication equipment developed, smaller and smaller units came to boast their own communications. Each unit on the field could keep their headquarters informed of the latest situation on a virtually minute-to-minute basis, and the headquarters could therefore co-ordinate separate units to accomplish certain very temporary goals on a minute-to-minute basis.

The effectiveness of artillery, especially, was drastically improved. With any company in the four Scandinavian divisions able to call for divisional artillery support, reporting the latest assumed locations of the enemy, Scandinavian artillery would never have to stay idle for lack of targets.

There was, however, a certain limit to how much operational efficiency could be achieved only through equipment and protocol. By 1926, the very way the Scandinavian Armed Forces operated was beginning to change to adapt to highly mobile warfare. To prepare against decapitating strikes, the structure of communications were themselves changed from hierarchical to interconnected. Regiments did not just report to the brigade headquarters, but also kept in communications with the division headquarters, as well as other regiments both in that same brigade and elsewhere. Lines of communication could form based on actual proximity instead simply by some theoretical organisation chart.

Furthermore, army protocol was changed in 1926 and again in 1927 to permit greater autonomy to officers. Officers were, unlike in earlier times, informed in great detail as to the purpose of the task that they were ordered to accomplish. If an opportunity to accomplish that task or its purpose more effectively at a lower cost emerged, they were encouraged to act upon it instead of waiting for many minutes or even an hour for permission from headquarters, by which time that opportunity could very well have disappeared. Initiative, intelligence, and creativity became the sought-after trait for Scandinavia's military officers, rather than simple obedience. Military culture changed, almost paralleling the liberalisation and democratisation of Scandinavian society itself.

4. The Third Path to Victory: Strategic Warfare

Results

This is good, very descriptive, detailed and with a firm grasp of the overall feel of the setting.

[Jiyon]

Jiyon, have you written that letter to YTF, or it will be written in your next post? I want to know whether to include an answer in my next post.

I have written the letter.

[Hothnia]

I'll reserve Germany. ( Or what's left of it)

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

I'll reserve Germany. ( Or what's left of it)

None of Germany's been taken.

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

Reserved.

[Castrunberg]

Name: Thomas Edison
Age: 82
Sex: Male
Appearance(Picture or Description):

Personal Belongings: Lightbulbs, many houses, money
Personality: Cunning, jealous, but very intelligent, arrogant
Bio (one paragraph at least): Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847. He was known, for a while as one of the greatest inventors of all time, with revolutionary inventions like the lightbulb and the telegraph. However, he was a famous rival of Nikola Tesla, even cheating Tesla of his money once when Edison lost a bet! To get revenge, Tesla teamed up with Yerkes and made revolutionary discoveries, completely changing the world as we know it. A bitter, now forgotten Edison retired to a small home, but has been planning his revenge ever since.
Strengths: Extreme intelligence
Weaknesses: Arrogance

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

Name: Thomas Edison
Age: 82
Sex: Male
Appearance(Picture or Description):

(Image)

Personal Belongings: Lightbulbs, many houses, money
Personality: Cunning, jealous, but very intelligent, arrogant
Bio (one paragraph at least): Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847. He was known, for a while as one of the greatest inventors of all time, with revolutionary inventions like the lightbulb and the telegraph. However, he was a famous rival of Nikola Tesla, even cheating Tesla of his money once when Edison lost a bet! To get revenge, Tesla teamed up with Yerkes and made revolutionary discoveries, completely changing the world as we know it. A bitter, now forgotten Edison retired to a small home, but has been planning his revenge ever since.
Strengths: Extreme intelligence
Weaknesses: Arrogance

Hahahaha! Yes! Accepted.

[Proud Marxists]

NS Nation Name: Proud Marxists
Nation Name: The United States of America
Flag of your nation:
One paragraph history of your nation: (from 1893 onwards, not required if nothing has changed from RL): After Yerkes and Tesla teamed up, the American economy boomed. The US was producing revolutionary technology; the government started funding businesses and science at tenfold. However, the US made many losses in World War One, when it's defense expenditure went up a lot, and so they couldn't fund tech anymore. Then came the Great Depression. The USA has since been trying desperately, but futilely, to rebuild the booming economy it once was, ignoring Tesla's company completely.
Government Form: Democracy
Army Size: Huge
Army Description: Very advanced tech and weaponry
Navy Size: Big
Air Force: Average
Territory of country: USA, some Caribbean islands