The kingdom had never mobilized for total war.
The Second Demeterra War — seventy years ago — had been a defensive action fought primarily by the standing military with militia support. The garrison revolts of fifty years past had been internal suppressions, not mobilizations. The minor border skirmishes that dotted the kingdom's history were handled by provincial forces without centralized coordination. The Sovereign Dominion had never committed the full spectrum of its institutional capability to a single, unified military effort.
Until now.
