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[Julian Langsdorf III]

This is an excerpt from a sidebar in the book "Combat Operations". Its short, concise, I thought it did a great job of summarizing how the Free Worlds League Military operates on a strategic level.

Free Worlds League summary from the book “Combat Operations”.

Free Worlds League

Though now unified under a single command structure, the FWLM lacks experience in large-scale coordinated combat operations, instead relying on the initiative of individual commanders and the orders of regional marshals. This system is a legacy of a decentralized system that historically caused many command and control problems. Operation Guerrero in 3057 proved that the League could mount a substantial coordinated offensive but whether it could repeat that performance against a better prepared foe is less certain. League troops are well trained and equipped with the most up-to-date weapons, vehicles and protective equipment in the Inner Sphere, though several decades of relative peace have left the FWLM with a lower overall experience level than other powers. The League has immense stockpiles of support material held at central depots rather than assigned to specific units. Together with a preponderance of agile medium-weight vehicles, Battlemechs, and aerospace forces including the most powerful navy in the Inner Sphere, this facilitates the League’s preference for a more mobile form of warfare that adapts to enemy attacks and allows League forces to stage their own lightning raids against targets of opportunity. They rely as much on surprise as raw firepower to achieve their objectives, believing that a single well-placed knife thrust is more effective than a flurry of hammer blows.

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So basically the FWLM is organized the same way the rest of the country is: Un.