National People's Army

The National People's Army  (NPA) (Goetic: Nationale Volksarmee – NVA) is the armed forces of the Socialist Republic of Goetia. It is considered by outside experts and analysts to be a highly professional and competent armed forces. The NVA was originally established on the December 1st, 1924 after many of the local militias were fashioned together during the War of Awakening. Known just as the Volksarmee or simply just 'The People's Army', it would be later changed to the National People's Army in 1931 as a naval component was added and the land component of the army named the Volksheer. In 1934 the Volksluftwaffe would be separated as its own branch from the Volksheer. The last major addition was in 1992 when the addition of the Volksweltraumwaffe, or People's Space Force, which would be in command of all high-atmospheric and orbital operations.

Ideology
The government of Goetia identifies that war is another means of bringing about the revolution, be it nuclear or conventional in nature. The NVA is highly politically indoctrinated, with morale officers from the Ministry of State Security being attached from the battalion-level up in all NVA units.

Structure and Organization
The NVA has four branches:
 * The Volksheer (People's Army) with an active peacetime strength of 750,000 personnel in 45 divisions organized into 14 armored divisions, 26 infantry divisions, 2 airborne divisions and a marine division.
 * The Volksluftwaffe (People's Air Force) with a strength of 270,000 personnel and over 2,300 aircraft, 1,000 of which are combat aircraft.
 * The Volkskriegmarine (People's War Navy) with a strength of 90,000 with dozens of surface and subsurface warships.
 * The Volksweltraumwaffe (People's Space Force) with a strength of 40,000.

In wartime, the overall size of the NVA will expand double in overall strength with the mobilization of its reserve services, mostly in the Volksheer. In addition to the NVA, there are also the Ministry of the Interior's Grenztruppen (Border Troops) as well as the Volkspolizei (People's Police) who would work in a subsidiary and supportive role. Also the Ministry of State Security would have the Walter Schellenberg Guards Regiment along with its own smaller organizations and agencies which would be for the internal defense against sabotage and subversion. Lastly, in a defensive stance, there is the Combat Groups of the Working Class, subordinate to the KPG at their estimated combat mobilized strength of 1.5 million personnel.

Overall, this would give Goetia over 5 million personnel in uniform.