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| - The military of the Italian Social Republic include both the Italian Armed Forces and the Fascist Forces, in turn consisting of the National Republican Guard and the Voluntary Militia for National Security. Both Italian Armed Forces and National Republican Guard include their autonomous commands assigned to the Autonomous Republics, while the Voluntary Militia for National Security follows a different organization. These forces total about 733,000 active personnel (including the National Republican Guard). All branches of armed forces fall under the command of Supreme Command of Armed Forces, vested in the Duce of the Republic, and are managed by the Chief of Defence Staff (It: Capo dello Stato Maggiore Difesa, CSMD). The Ministry of National Defence is responsible for planning logistics a
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| - The military of the Italian Social Republic include both the Italian Armed Forces and the Fascist Forces, in turn consisting of the National Republican Guard and the Voluntary Militia for National Security. Both Italian Armed Forces and National Republican Guard include their autonomous commands assigned to the Autonomous Republics, while the Voluntary Militia for National Security follows a different organization. These forces total about 733,000 active personnel (including the National Republican Guard). All branches of armed forces fall under the command of Supreme Command of Armed Forces, vested in the Duce of the Republic, and are managed by the Chief of Defence Staff (It: Capo dello Stato Maggiore Difesa, CSMD). The Ministry of National Defence is responsible for planning logistics and funding of the armed forces and is not involved with in-the-field military operational command. The Italian Armed Forces are comprised of Italian regular navy, ground forces, air force and the military corps of the police forces; they are manned by a combination of conscripts and volunteers/career personnel. The Italian Armed Forces consist of the National Republican Army (Esercito Nazionale Repubblicano, E.N.R.), National Republican Navy (Marina da Guerra Nazionale Repubblicana, M.N.R.), National Republican Air Force (Areonautica Nazionale Repubblicana, A.N.R.) and Republican Police Corps (Corpo di Polizia Repubblicana, C.P.R.), although the latter one, togheter to the Republican Guard of Finance, is a military corps and not an Armed Force. The regular armed forces have an about 593,000 personnel. A secondary military corps is the Ethiopian Defence Force, tasked to contribute to the ground defence and security of the Ethiopian Social Republic. Thanks to the favourable economic situation, the Fascist Regime has been able to maintain high military expenditures without eroding too much social and economic expenditure. The militarization of the Italian society had led to a concentration of political power in the military sector. Such a phenomenon encouraged military intervention in politics until mid 1980s. In partial contrast to the MVSN and its branches, the Armed Forces wield lesser influence in the regime political centres of power due to the relatively high resistance to Debalti's leadership changes. In line with the Constitution, the Armed Forces must be committed to Fascist and Nationalist ideology and they is responsible for guarding the territorial integrity of the country as well as the order of the Fascist regime. The Military Political Commission of the Defence General Staff (It: Commissione Politico-Militare dello Stato Maggiore della Difesa) is a 2002-established State-only organization which carries out political education and supervision of the military personnel; it is managed by an high-ranking military figure, personal representative of Duce Italo Debalti. Dedicated military officers with significant political background are present at every formation or major command of the Armed Forces. Following early 2000s consolidation, a sort of cult of personality has begun. Senior officer ranks suffer from the “leadership syndrome”. Duce Italo Debalti's portrait, in various poses, as the Supreme Commander of the Italian Armed Forces adorns military websites, journals, offices, and establishments. Although nowadays well entrenched, the politicization represents a change even in a dictatorial State like Fascist Italy. Prior the declaration of overt hostility towards Italy, the Armed Forces were avowedly apolitical. They were - and still are - a national institution, created and maintained to defend the nation against external threats, although the near totality of military personnel is Fascist. Unlike the MVSN, it is not a revolutionary institution and until mid 2000s they did not interpret their primary mission as defending the Fascist Regime; after mid 2000s, the ideological pressure reached also official rhetoric, which however remains openly nationalist and apolitical. This apolitical character of the military institution as a whole (although there are several institutional exceptions and both rank-and-file and top personnel is definitively not apolitical) is seen by the Italian leadership as a possible weak point which may be exploited in case of a colour revolution. The National Republican Guard (Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana, GNR) has about 130,000 personnel in various branches: its own Air service (for territorial control and army aviation tasks) and ground forces; and the "D" Force (Forza "D", praetorian and special forces), as well as the MVSN part of the Joint Cyber Warfare Force and other secondary branches; albeit being an elite force, the regular military retains the clear majority of strategic assets, such as armour and other assets. The National Fascist Party as a whole theoretically is a paramilitary volunteer force, controlled for what concerns military preparedness by the Militia. The Voluntary Militia for National Security (Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale, M.V.S.N.) is the Party's territorial armed force and performs Gendarmerie-like duties, such as riot suppression tasks, and proper activities. Alongside the national military or militarized branches, also in the Autonomous Republics within the Italian Empire there are militarized gendarmerie forces, as well as the relevant MVSN branches.
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