First Year Overview - 20th January, 1937
Army
After a few months of deliberations, the General Staff came up with a standard organization model for mechanized corps - 1 Tank Division and 2 Motorized Divisions. All tank and motorized divisions in the western part of the country have been organized into 6 such units, disbanding several corps HQs in the process. The General Staff has also developed a new doctrine for conducting mass warfare, and is actively working on two new ones.
During this period our small arms, artillery and armour design bureaus have developed completely new and modern small arms, artillery and light tank models. Two Light Tank brigades have been put into productions, with an estimated completion date at 15th March, and one Motorized Infantry brigade should be completed at 22th May.
Navy
All the submarines of the Great War era (the so called American Holland design) were decommissioned and scrapped - freeing a handful of experienced personnel for training the would-be naval officers.
The transport vessels flotilla have been transferred from the Far East Fleet, where they could not possibly operate in case of war with Japan, to the Baltic Fleet.
As a result of joined effort from our shipbuilding development teams, the navy got a very capable destroyer project. Three flotillas of these destroyers should be built for the Baltic Fleet, and three more - for the Black Sea Fleet.
Air Force
The aircraft design teams have developed a revolutionary fighter model - Polikarpov I-16, a low-wing cantilever monoplane with retractable gear, armed with the state of the art ShKAS machine guns. This model is by no means lacking in any characteristic to the fighter aircraft of any major aerial power. Eight divisions of them have been immediately put into serial production, the first one of the batch awaited at 23th February -the day of the mighty Red Army!
Industry
Our industrial technologies have been greatly improved, and the new agriculture, production control are already applied for the good of the working people.
Eight new factories have been completed during this month, and eleven more should be finished in December.
A handful of heavy AA batteries have been completed in the key provinces along the western borders of our country. These AA installations, together with the growing air force, should secure the skies over the important cities, air and naval bases.
Now we conduct some research in radio technologies, that should improve the communications means between our military units.
Diplomacy & Intelligence
The first weeks of year 1936 have been devoted to secure trade affairs with countries around the world. If a neighboring country, great or small, was in need of coal, steel or other raw materials, then we offered them a good deal. This established a steady income of money, which in turn has been used to buy supplies from Germany and Japan. By the way, these two countries are currently our most important trade partners, despite tremendous ideological differences
Our internal intelligence network has been greatly expanded, and is operating now at it's peak efficiency. Estimations are, that during the last year more people (about 5% of the total population) realized that bringing socialism to the world is everyone's responsibility. This shall be good in the future, as these people will support more efficient production laws.