Armed Forces of Tanen House

Succeeded by the Armed Forces of The Senic Order

Women
Though many retrospectively see the decision to allow women into the military as ahead of it's time and progressive. And though Fucking Monarch Boy.Tanen House may have been forward thinking for his time, this particular decision was not made in that mindset.

It was no secret that Tanen House was one the weakest houses during the Senic Feudal Era. Second only to Cusal House. It had been cursed with the thickest jungle in what is now The Senic Order, making agriculture extremely difficult without a massive deforesting operation. It was also low in natural resources by comparison to the other houses. These factors had stifled the growth of Tanen House into becoming smallest house by overall population. Fucking Monarch Boy whilst devising his plan to unite the region under one banner, came to the conclusion that the introduction of women into the armed forces was the only way they would be able to fight a sustained conflict with the strongest houses. By allowing women to serve, he could free up considerable amounts of man power, and in theory be able to double the size of the military.

Tanen also knew that the decision would not be readily accepted by everyone. Initially women were only allowed into the medical corps, behind the lines. This still freed up a considerable amount of man power for frontline units, and was relatively uncontroversial. In civilian life the medical field was already dominated by women. The additional manpower allowed Tanen House to win the first war of the Unification Period. The next step allowed women to be in logistical companies attached to mainline units. Again managing to dodge major controversy.

The final step Monarch Boy took, was allowing women in separated frontline units. Women were only to fill the enlisted ranks, all commissioned officers would be male. This move finally sparked major controversy. One General even suggested overthrowing the monarch, stating that he was "Disgracing the honor of the armed forces." However, Monarch Boy managed to ride out the storm.

In spite of the decision and subsequent training of new female units had made the forces of Tanen House one of the largest house militaries. It was scoffed at even more than before the decision. The other houses believed Tanen House had just crippled it's own fighting capacity for the sake of looking large on paper. They were soon proved wrong as the female units performed on par with their male counterparts in combat.