File 5257/1919 'Persia: the Military Commission' [‎60v] (125/534)

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onn.iHered necessary 'to start the scheme and get the organisation working on a
considered neces ) subsequent chapter. The complete scheme
will be described in the present chapter n„d„
following heads :—
The different classes of armed forces considered necessary.
Division of the Empire into military command areas.
Strength and distribution of the troops considered necessary.
Organisation of the War Office and headquarters of the forces.
Organisation of the headquarters of commands.
Organisation of regimental units.
ivn.) Organisation of the Aviation beryice. .
(viii.) Organisation of the Medical and the Veterinary Services.
(ix.) Organisation of the Works Services.
(x.) Organisation of the Ordnance Service.
(xi.) Organisation of the Supply Service.
(xii.) Organisation of the Transport Service.
(xiii.) System of Recruitment.
(xiv.) Supply of officers, system of recruitment, and status of officers,
(xv.) Military Education.
(xvi.) Arms, equipment, and munitions.
(xvii.) Clothing and dress.
(xviii.) Discipline and code of military law.
(xix.) Rates of pay and allowances in money and kind.
(xx.) Rates of pensions and gratuities.
(i.) The Different Classes of Armed Forces Considered Necessary.
97. At present Persia has three classes of armed forces, viz.
{a.) The military forces proper, of varying organisations and varying degrees
of efficiency, some maintained by foreign Powers, such as the Cossack
Division, the South Persia Rifles, and the East Persia Levy Corps, others
by the Persian War Ministry, such as the Central Brigade and the Nizam
in the provinces.
(b.) The gendarmerie, which is not a gendarmerie in the true sense of the word,
that is a police force. It is a military force of all arms but under the
Ministry of the Interior instead of under the Ministry of War.
(c.) The police proper, which is, however, only properly organised in the four
towns of Tehran, Kazvin, Resht, and Meshed. At these places the
organisation is good, and the regulations, if carried out, would make for
efficiency. Elsewhere the police is not organised but run under provincial
governors.
With regard to the above the Commission consider that there can be no question
as to the necessity for carrying out two measures :—
(i.) The amalgamation of the different forces mentioned under {a) in para
graph 97 above into one uniform Persian national army under the Persian
government and the abolition of all forces maintained in the country by
foreign Powers.
(n.) The extension of the regular police organisation over the whole country on
e mes of that now existing at the four towns mentioned and the
augmen a ion of the police forces so that such work as guarding the
houses of individuals in towns shall be a police and not a military duty.
t present large numbers of soldiers are wasted in permanent guards on
houses. Men so employed are not, and cannot become, soldiers
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