Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20130815164657/@comment-10390252-20140110093837

But there is a big difference between a standing army, a force that is under arms and in uniform whether or not the country is actively involved in hostilities with another country, and a reservist force, basically a formal, trained militia. I suspect that Vale and the other City-States haven't had a standing army since the time of the Human-Faunus War.

Indeed a general demilitarisaiton and demobilisation might have been one of the terms of the peace treaty. It might have also led to the development of the Hunters as a formal anti-Grimm force, something that used to be handled by the humans' standing armies.

The rise and radicalisation of White Fang may see a re-militarisaiton but that will depend on just how bad the sitatuation with them gets.