Nadiya

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Constitutional ban on an offensive army lifted by the Convention as the government announces military modernization and expansion plan, military commands unified in Petrograd: loading the barrels

Zoetergraaf, Brakav. In an expected turn of events, the constitutional convention has agreed to lift the constitutional ban on the Confederation operating an offensive army rather than a defensive one. The move comes after constitutionalists from the crimson-magenta alliance agreed that Nadiya is in desperate need of a stronger army capable of defending the isles and launching offensives if necessary alongside urging the government to begin modernizing the army, after that the convention voted 135 in favor of the amendment that also served as a direct constitutional law authorized by article 84.5 of the constitution. Shortly after the motion was passed and enacted, the Nadiyan Commission for Defense was renamed the Nadiyan Commission for Military Administration and Modernization, with the thaller government pushing forward a bill in the NGA that would drastically increase the budget of the armed forces to rearm them as quickly as possible. Named the Protecting Nadiya Today, Tomorrow, and Forever Act, the bill proposed by the HMDP would see the official creation of a Nadiyan intelligence agency called the Commission for the Preservation of Nadiyan Pride, the agency will be under direct management of the NCMAM with the supervision of the presidential council, not only that, but the army will begin implementing Project Icarus an ambitious 30 billion NRB plan to revamp the old Trigunian designs still gathered within the national archives of Nadiya and begin the production of high end weapons, munitions, and units that can meet the demands of the new age in military warfare alongside a facelift of the generals through the retirement of older ones and replacing them with their younger colleagues to bring in fresher strategies and military policies. When the law was discussed in front of the NGA, Liliana Thaller defended it by citing the recent fiasco with Egelion and the coup in Kizenia and New Endralon as another justification for the confederation's rearmament in the wake of regional instability and betrayal of trust. The justifications were accepted by members of the NGA even tho there were some protests from within the FJIP because of the party's pacifist stance, but due to the current confidence and supply agreement with the HMDP, they fell back in line and secured a majority in the NGA and supermajorities in CoN and CoJ with the presidential council unanimously signing the bill. Immediately after the law was signed and enacted, the different generals in charge of the armies of the constituent republics were summoned to Petrograd for the unification of the command line between the NCMAM and the republics, the armed forces of the republics were effectively transferred to the central government, and a brand-new military hierarchy was established to ensure clear and direct communication lines between the central government, its armed forces and the new intelligence agency. Nadiya gears up toward full rearmament but how will this affect Keris and especially its relations with other powers is yet to be determined, but one thing is sure, King Artemo's move has started a domino effect.