Exército Real de Jungastia

The Exército Real de Jungastia (Royal Jungastian Army) is the component of the Jungastian Armed Forces and one of the oldest armies in Maredoratica. Charged with the defence of Jungastia, it controls 153,560 active personnel and has an annual budget of $36 billion. The of the ERJ is the King of Jungastia, currently Agostinho III.

Jungastian Army doctrine is influenced by the strength of the Royal Jungastian Navy. As a, Jungastia's Army fulfills a tertiary role relative to the Navy and Air Force. It is a fully force which makes extensive use of reserves.

Mission
The of Jungastia is contained in one document, approved by Parliament, which is called Missão Estratégica (Strategic Mission). This document states that the Army is concerned with three tasks. The structure and organisation of the Jungastian military is centred around these three tasks.


 * Operações cívico-militares (Civic-military operations) such as or . The Jungastian military is committed to support of Maredoratic League peacekeeping missions and the Jungastian government's humanitarian aid policy. Key to the civic-military operations are reserves, who are sometimes called up to assist in these types of missions. Jungastian troops have been deployed as peacekeepers in Cote d'Or and Alanko.
 * Operações multilaterais (Multilateral operations) are military operations carried out alongside Jungastia's key allies in multi-national forces. The Jungastian military expects any future combat to be done alongside allies and trains for this possibility.
 * (Symmetrical battle) is the least likely outcome. It involves a scenario in which there is an existential threat to the sovereignty of Jungastia, or one of its key allies. For this eventuality the Jungastian military maintains a reserve cadre of staff officers which could form three divisions under one corps.

Structure
Operationally, the Jungastian Army is divided into seven active brigades and three reserve brigades. There are three types of brigade; armoured, with and tracked infantry-fighting vehicles,  with wheeled personnel carriers, and  with lighter vehicles. Each brigade also contains support assets such as and.

There are two active brigades of each type; one of which is on permanent readiness and another which is on intensive training. These roles swap every year so that there are always three brigades ready to deploy and three brigades undergoing training. The reserve brigades activate their personnel throughout the year in a staggered deployment to train with the regular forces.

The rapid reaction brigade rotates its battalions through readiness levels for training purposes, but is always ready to deploy, and contains Jungastia's, and special forces.

(Green is active, red is reserve.)

The Jungastian Army is structured to be capable of deploying three brigades across the globe at any time, but to deploy more than three requires some of Jungastia's reserves to be called up to provide manpower for the support arms. Reserves have featured heavily in the Jungastian Army since the 2007 Army Reforms which moved the reserve forces closer to the regular forces. As well as the three reserve combat brigades, Each active brigade has a reserve battalion which trains two weeks in each year with the brigade, and would be deployed alongside the brigade in a combat situation. Supporting arms are manned mainly by reservists who receive the same basic training as the regular forces.

In an emergency, all ten brigades can be deployed into three divisions, under a corps-sized asset.

Training
Jungastian recruits undergo 18 weeks of, the longest in Maredoratica, with a further training period depending on specialisation which can last between 18 and 32 weeks. The cost of basic training for an individual soldier is approximately $57,350 as of 2012. After basic training recruits can opt to choose their specialisation. Officers are trained in the Real Academia Militar de Santo André (Saint Andre Royal Military Academy) or RAM-SA, which is one of the oldest military academies in Maredoratica. After basic training, it takes 44 weeks to train a Jungastian. Jungastian Army units undergo one large-scale, multi-brigade manoeuvre once every two years and carry out multi-national training with Rochehaut and Morieux. The last multi-national manoeuvre was held in 2013.

Equipment
See also - Equipment of the Jungastian Army

Most Jungastian military equipment is produced domestically, from Jungastia's. Jungastian scientists have made several important contributions to military technology; among them include the pioneering of as ammunition, the co-invention of  with Questers, which is still a state secret, and  radar. Today Jungastia imports a limited amount of military technology from Van Luxemburg and Rochehaut, but rarely exports its equipment.