Fiction:Motive/Military

Despite the key role it plays in Motive's operations, Motive Security is valued no more or less than any other branch of its administrative body. As is characteristic, Motive approaches warfare with dispassion, treating it as a routine task no different from construction or assembly work.

Motive's military primarily leverages mass firepower with its superior production capability to overwhelm enemy forces.

STRENGTHS: Motive's combat doctrine is the inexorable advance, pushing its forces outwards in increasingly greater strengths while exploiting the territory it already holds for the necessary resources.
 * Attrition warfare
 * Total war
 * Heavy artillery
 * Fortification

WEAKNESSES: Motive compensates for its weaknesses by fortifying intensively and becoming impenetrable on all fronts. Motive cannot be outmaneuvered if maneuvering is impossible.
 * Slowness
 * Inflexibility
 * Lack of precision
 * Poor mobility

Overall, Motive strategy is wasteful in the extreme and is only possible because Motive possesses a superlative industrial capacity. During any Motive operation, a "critical period" exists in which Motive is vulnerable and insufficiently entrenched; once this critical period is past, dislodging a Motive force from its territory becomes nearly impossible.

Motive categorizes its military as two principal forces: Orbital Division and Terrestrial Division.

Orbital Division represents Motive's spacefaring navy; Terrestrial Division its infantry and associated forces. These Divisions typically act in concert and are only considered separate for organizational purposes.

Orbital Division is Security's chiefest branch, as Motive disdains ground combat whenever possible.

Terrestrial Division is something of a misnomer; Motive troops are generalists trained not only for planetside ground missions but also for boarding actions and other orbital operations requiring infantry and armor support.