Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25947212-20180518145912/@comment-25947212-20180518230756

Pre-War and Great War era, the Kingdoms maintain a standing army, that's what I believe because this is before the Huntsmen Academies, it's also standard procedure of every state to have a military both to protect their citizens and interest, evidently during the Great War.

It strikes me odd that in modern times Vale was completely helpless when the Breach occurred and during the Vytal festival invasion, only the Huntsmen and Atlas forces fought back, maybe the Vale Police Force fought behind the scenes but nothing like a Valeian military intervention or anything.

This might sound like a conspiracy theory but I propose the Kingdoms were demilitarize after the Great War, Atlas being technologically advance were given the burden of protecting the other three kingdoms and with the establishing of the Academies there wasn't a need to sink money on large bodies of troops and just send small squads as a preemptive strike.

This system of small squads eradicating pockets of Grimm on a regular basis does prove to be more efficient and cheap for the Kingdoms, but by no means effective in a large scale scenario.