Latveria's regular army was exceptionally unusual now; it could be considered the strangest army in human history.
In terms of basic military strength, everyone had Laser Weapons, Heavy Weapon Platforms, Armored Personnel Carriers with protection stronger than tanks, bulletproof armor, Plasma Weapons, and large quantities of Individual Anti-Aircraft Weapons and Anti-Tank Weapons. Its high-end military forces lacked none of the advanced technologies unavailable to other nations: Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles fitted with Nuclear Warheads and Ballistic Missile Launchers, Assault Transports capable of Void Travel, Super Heavy Tanks capable of storming cities and strongholds, Integrated Satellite Drone Reconnaissance and Strike systems, Armed Space Station logistics, and more. Supplies were abundant, battle plans were extraordinarily detailed, and the weapons produced by the City of Immortals alone were inexhaustible. Any well-trained force could have completed this war with ease.
But that was precisely Latveria's problem.
Latveria's entire population was only five hundred thousand, leaving its regular army severely short of recruits. It could only conquer small villages, rely on the propagandists' speeches, then pack people into troop carriers and take them away. Although many young and middle-aged Latverians were now bringing their families to join the regular army, apart from the guerrilla fighters who formed its core, most of them possessed virtually no military skills—they had previously only had access to American-made firearms from local military and police departments, along with weapons bought after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. They needed time to learn how to fly aircraft and operate Laser Weapons, Plasma Weapons, Heavy Weapon Platforms, anti-aircraft artillery, and so on. On top of that, the training camps established by the City of Immortals spent considerable time teaching basic military literacy, including discipline, map reading, signal recognition, and tank-infantry coordination. Latveria's young recruits simply did not have much time, nor did they