The Kalpian Republic E1899
The National Railway of the Republic of Kalpia
In the eyes of the General Staff of the Republikan army, the national railway of Kalpia was average at best and while it did its job of connecting the country, it didn't have the capacity for the dozens of thousands of soldiers that would have to be mobilized per the plans that the General Staff had made for the both defense and defense, in some cases there was only one railway connecting towns or important strategical points, meaning that transportation was limited and that if it was cut out by enemy sabotage there would be lots of problems for the army.
But nominally the General Staff could do little about it, after all, they weren't in charge of the railroads and their management unless it was wartime, so their ability to do that by the orthodox means were quite limited indeed, but this wasn't the army minister of any other country this was the Kalpian General Staff, a general staff that exercised both political and military power over the country, a combination that has obviously led to clashes between the civil sector and the military sector, clashes that the general staff always ended up winning or avoiding one way or the other.
Their political power consisted of their partial control over the conservative party the "Kalpian Conservative Alliance" which while held control over their decisions and members, it still had to obey some orders from the general staff which to some extent influence the votes of the conservative party if they wanted, though sabotage and other means like campaigning against them and making the soldiers vote for another party, which could happen thanks to the ideological power that the general staff had over the minds of the soldiers.
But this time there wasn't a clash between conservative party and general staff because improvements to the national railway had already been proposed before by the minister of economy Detlev Jost Rapp, included within his budget for the six years of rule of the president.
The general staff obviously applauded the measure when it was announced (although it was announced before time because of the pressure from the general staff). Now it seemed that the general staff could engage in bigger and more ambitious plans for the future.
Matters of the Republikan Army
The General Staff, now appeased, continued on the improvement of the grand army of Kalpia, first of all, the general staff gave good sign to The Cadet Newspaper a newspaper made for the many soldiers and reservists on the homeland, which more often than not focuses on the military history of Kalpia, veteran stories and armaments, stuff which objective is the increase of morale of the soldiers by making them know that they are part of something greater and that they now have something specifically made for them.
This measure was taken because of the relatively low morale that the General Staff perceived from the soldiers, morale that was still quite high but couldn't be compared to the levels seen in previous decades, of course, this also came with the obsession of the General Staff to always beat itself or others in several categories, so for them it wasn't acceptable to have a lower level that in 1890 or 1880. The ever active General Staff was also considered paranoid by the lower ranking officers because they had plans to defend and attack any neighboring nation, but not only one but several each depending on the context of the conflict. The general staff considered its main rival the Osladian Empire to the west, a monarchy that didn't share many values or love with the Kalpian Republic.
Another measure of the Kalpian general staff for this year was the yearly review of the military drills and training techniques that the general staff enforced upon the training officers, something which time and time proved to be either useless or good for the army, this inspection often reviewed results from last year and compared them with those of the last decade, then it considered the new training and drilling techniques proposed by both officers and generals alike. This was a long and tiring process for the officers of the general staff, who were assigned to this work every year, as such, the generals often provided a compensation to the ones who did this job, more often thatn not, monetary.
Kalpian officer reviews training results from last year
