User blog comment:The Bespectacled Guy/On World of Remnant 2/@comment-4909254-20140919051253/@comment-9464517-20140920091334

I didn't notice that when I first watched this segment, but we could guess that Vale didn't have a proper military from their lack of participation in local events (such as while responding to Roman and the White Fang) anyway. The police force in this world is useless as it is, so it would make sense for any kind of military to be ready to defend the city at any given moment. The fact that not even a small force showed up to assist RWBY with eliminating Roman (the guy killed dozens of people in the cars on the highway) implies that either they're pre-occupied elsewhere, or they simply aren't organised or don't exist in the manner we would expect. Ozpin says "we are living in a time of peace" suggesting that no obvious military action is occurring elsewhere in the world, so we can conclude that Vale's military is not functioning at this moment in time, whereas, as we know, Atlas' is very much fully-operational.