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The Fort William Inquirer

Prime Minister meet with military leaders; military reforms being considered by General Staff.

February 5591

Fort William, Luthori - Amid ongoing modernisation efforts in the Imperial Luthorian Armed Forces, the Luthorian Prime Minister today took a time to meet out with Luthori's most important military leaders, to come a favourable settlement for both parts' in the course of Luthori's ongoing military modernisation program. While previous administrations were more favourable to the improvement and funding of the Imperial Luthorian Army, this Ministry seems to re-favour the Imperial Luthorian Navy, as per with the Cabinet's Pro-Commonwealth orientation and their latest promises of "defending Mordusian sovereignty" in case that the worst aspects of human suffering, namely an aggressive war waged by a desperate nation reaches the shores of the Commonwealth. Although, greater emphasis was placed upon remilitarisation and strengthening of the Luthorian defence industry through extensive investments orchestrated by the Department of Defence.

The curious case of whether or not the throne was secured to Luthorian hands isn't too much of a concern for military specialists or even to the Government, that is. The threat from both the West and South is becoming increasingly worrisome to most members of the administration and the current course set by the Prime Minister may come to a crashing blow. Regardless, the Prime Minister met with military leaders to set the course for yet another round of military modernisation efforts, although, this time, with, as stated earlier, an emphasis on the recreation of "Luthorian engineering" and of technological growth militarily.

As such, due to this objectives, it shouldn't come as a shock that (1) - most of the Luthorian defence establishment was represented to this meeting and (2) - the Prime Minister gave them specific orders of "retrieving" all military assets that they may have or have produced, developed, abandoned over the years and, thanks to these results, bring a complete analysis to Crown Street to begin a process of "evaluation" by the Defence Staff, which would work in collaboration with these said defence corporations in order to align the production and research goals of these said companies with the military's needs. Although, such process would first need to be preceded with an overhaul of the Imperial Luthorian Army, the Imperial Luthorian Navy, the Imperial Luthorian Air Force, the Imperial Marine Corps or even, God forbid, the Imperial Guard, as the military begins to take herself into a more critical outlook, allowing the reformist-minded Chief of the Defence Staff, Gen. [General (Air Force)] Aline Bennett to reform the Command Structure of the Luthorian military.

Such ideas are becoming increasingly popular as the decades grows, as the Luthorians seems increasingly becoming ready to kickstart their economy in the case that the worst happens, as with an increasingly hostile Vanuku to its South and an unknown and uncertain partnership with Narikaton & Darnussia, it seems that a military leadership reform is needed to steer the military towards new heights. The military headquarters at the Citadel are planned to be expanded to welcome other organisations in itself. Organisations mostly specialised around intelligence gathering and reconnaissance, although the military seems to be focusing towards the establishment of military-led intelligence departments, separate from the civilian-led ones, such as the Domestic Intelligence Agency, the Foreign Intelligence Agency or the Imperial Security Service. Such foundation of agencies would need to be first approved by the Citadel, then by the Defence Secretary, then the Cabinet, then Parliament and finally, the Crown. Although, independence of actions from the military forces in these type of circumstances is widely considered to be a "possibility".

The Cabinet is continuing to monitor the current "thaw" in relations with Narikaton and Darnussia and the Beiteynuese due to the increasingly "worring world situation" and has confirmed the command of over 20 fighters jets of the XF-43 class [Luthorian variant of the HF-35 (Hutorian) fighter jet] and the command of the world-class tank Challenger 3 at 30 units. Estimates for these orders are between £1.7 and £1.9 billion, mostly caused by the average price for an XF-43 fighter jet, which has been fixed at £82,5 millions by its contractor. Well, dear readers, we would hope that this little piece of information has helped you in journey towards the prize of knowledge.

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