The Military Disarmament Act was a law passed by the Galactic Senate of the New Republic near the end of the Galactic Civil War between the Republic and the Galactic Empire. The legislation severely limited the makeup and operations of the Republic's Defense Fleet and army, reducing the overall size of the centralized military by ninety percent. The disarmament movement was undertaken in an effort to reflect the values of a democratic peacetime government and allowed the newly-formed Republic to focus on political cooperation instead of military control as its primary means of civil organization. The Military Disarmament Act also acted as a mechanism to legitimize the mandated disarmament of the remnants of the Imperial Military as outlined in the Galactic Concordance peace treaty that end
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| - The Military Disarmament Act was a law passed by the Galactic Senate of the New Republic near the end of the Galactic Civil War between the Republic and the Galactic Empire. The legislation severely limited the makeup and operations of the Republic's Defense Fleet and army, reducing the overall size of the centralized military by ninety percent. The disarmament movement was undertaken in an effort to reflect the values of a democratic peacetime government and allowed the newly-formed Republic to focus on political cooperation instead of military control as its primary means of civil organization. The Military Disarmament Act also acted as a mechanism to legitimize the mandated disarmament of the remnants of the Imperial Military as outlined in the Galactic Concordance peace treaty that end
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**The New Republic's military capabilities are reduced in the wake of the Galactic Concordance and the end of the Galactic Civil War
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| - The Military Disarmament Act was a law passed by the Galactic Senate of the New Republic near the end of the Galactic Civil War between the Republic and the Galactic Empire. The legislation severely limited the makeup and operations of the Republic's Defense Fleet and army, reducing the overall size of the centralized military by ninety percent. The disarmament movement was undertaken in an effort to reflect the values of a democratic peacetime government and allowed the newly-formed Republic to focus on political cooperation instead of military control as its primary means of civil organization. The Military Disarmament Act also acted as a mechanism to legitimize the mandated disarmament of the remnants of the Imperial Military as outlined in the Galactic Concordance peace treaty that ended the war, further promoting the goal of a peaceful coexistence between the two demilitarized powers. The act was originally proposed by Republic Chancellor Mon Mothma, who had worked to prevent growing militarization of the old Galactic Republic decades prior during the Clone Wars. Her efforts failed during the rise of the Empire and the following years of Imperial domination saw an unprecedented expansion of martial control and authoritarianism. Although Mothma ultimately turned to armed revolution that sparked the Galactic Civil War, she remained committed to the goal of a demilitarized galaxy and hoped to eventually be able to disarm both the Empire and her own Alliance to Restore the Republic. When the Alliance reorganized into the New Republic after the Battle of Endor, the chancellor moved quickly to propose the Military Disarmament Act and relinquish the military powers vested in her office. Despite concern about a potentially dangerous Imperial remnant force, the Military Disarmament Act was passed shortly after the Senate convened and implemented following the end of the war at the Battle of Jakku. Over the next three decades, the military restrictions imposed on the Republic allowed the Empire to rearm and reorganize into the First Order with impunity and stymied efforts to protect against the Imperial successor state's encroachments. Opponents of disarmament, like Princess Leia Organa, found themselves largely shunned from the day-to-day politics of the Republic, which ultimately motivated the creation of an unauthorized military movement designed to perform operations that were prohibited by the Disarmament Act and Galactic Concordance.
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