Mekiya Ruri's prestige proved its worth at the critical moment when the Sand Ninja's future remained uncertain.
The Fifth Kazekage, who had once saved the Land of Wind's future in its darkest hour, set the tone for the ensuing discussion with a rigorous yet stirring speech—after that, the Executive Committee no longer considered making peace with the Northern Alliance, instead directing most of its attention toward joining forces with the defenders of Red Pine Ridge to crush the invading Rock Ninja forces!
And now that they had resolved to go to war, how to mobilize their strength and deploy their troops became the focus of everyone's debate.
Over the past two years, Mekiya Ruri had worked tirelessly to purge corruption and sweep away the old miasma, reforming the Sand Ninja's formerly rigid and outdated clan-dependent military structure.
In order to completely eliminate the negative influence of the old powers on the Sand Ninja, Ruri, acting on a hint from Dean Yamada, reorganized all major functional departments in the country. In the end, she fostered five major operators under a public-private partnership model to oversee all affairs.
Under the influence of the new system, the Sand Ninja military structure naturally had to adapt to the new circumstances.
The "private armies" that had once belonged to various clan powers were reorganized more systematically under combat divisions backed logistically by the five major operators, directly answerable to the Executive Committee.
Thus, unlike Konoha's model of gathering a whole crowd of Ninshu clan heads for meetings, the Land of Wind—after suffering several crushing setbacks in succession—achieved a separation of military and political authority earlier, thanks to the disentangling of conflicting interests when determining military arrangements.
Even special operations agencies like the Bunraku Hall puppet handlers had to relinquish all of their original posts upon