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Military Academy (FOTS)

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Military Academy (FOTS)
File:Military Academy FOTS.png
Chain Modern Military Type
Requires Buildings:
  • Barracks
  • Arts:
  • Modern Rifles
  • Enables Buildings:
  • Army War College
  • Units:
  • Line Infantry
  • Sharpshooters
  • Black Tortoise Force
  • Azure Dragon Force
  • Kihetai
  • Red Bear Infantry
  • Tosa Riflemen
  • Vermilion Bird Force
  • Black Bear Infantry
  • White Bear Infantry
  • Yugekitai
  • Imperial Infantry
  • Shogunate Infantry
  • Republican Infantry
  • Sabre Cavalry
  • Revolver Cavalry
  • Carbine Cavalry
  • Spawned Defence Forces
  • Garrison Infantry
  • Basic Building Statistics
  • Cost: 6500
  • Recruitment capacity (units in training): +1
  • -2 to happiness from modernisation
  • Clan Effects +3 to modernisation (clan development)
    See main article; FotS Buildings


    Description

    Good breeding is a start, but thought is also useful.

    A military academy allows the recruitment of modern units in a province. Modern warfare is a highly technical business, and an officer needs far more than good breeding and a samurai ancestry to get the best from his men, although those do help of course.

    Western armies were, haltingly, in the process of making their officer classes into professionals rather than the sons of gentry and the aristocracy. Not all great generals appreciated the benefits of military academy education: Robert E. Lee, the greatest general of the American Civil War, is reported to have said his military education was the worst mistake of his life. It was also possible to send the sons of titled gentry to an academy and leave them utterly immune to any intellectual process. Indeed, the British staff college at Camberley was so poorly regarded that it had only a handful of pupils in the 1850s. Certainly, the backgrounds (and mixed performances) of British commanders during the latter years of Victoria's reign suggest that social class and connections were far more use in a successful career than an excess of thinking. Academies were nice to have, but that didn't mean commanders had to attend them.

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