Flag of the Mongol Baghdad Khanate
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Bureau of Foreign Military Affairs
Central Asian Analysis Task Force
July 8, 2046
Flag of the Mongol Baghdad Khanate
Geography
The Mongol Baghdad Khanate's territory is believed to include the former territory of Iran south of a line running roughly from the Turkish border to Resht on the Caspian Sea, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, eastern Isreal, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon.
Population statistics for the Khanate of Baghdad.
The khanate's capital is at Baghdad, or more accuratly, New Baghdad, located on the north edge of the still heavily irradiated old city.
History
The Mongol Baghdad Khanate began by a successful invasion of Iran and Armenia by a Mongol Army from the Khanate of the High Altai in a series of campaigns in the years 2013-14. Mongol General Lord Chengai smashed the massed Iranian Revolutionary Armies at the battle of Qom. Most of the easily occupied parts of Iran were quickly organized into the Western Marches of the High Altai Khanate. However, the Mongols would spend the next twenty years trying to impose their rule on the rugged, remote parts of the territory beofre completely securing the region. The Khan of the High Altai appointed Lord Chengai Satrap of the Marches.
A Mongol army from occupied Iran invaded the Arab Baghdad Caliphate in 2017. In the middle of that summer, the Mongols annihilate the armies of the Baghdad Caliphate at the Battle of Al Kut and go on to conquer Baghdad. Lord Chengai is promoted to Khan of the newly created Khanate of Baghdad at the end of that year, encompassing his old territories as well as Iraq and eastern Syria, to the borders of Greater Isreal.
Early in 2018, Chengdai swept down the Persian Gulf coast, overruning coastal Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirate, and invaded Oman. Ferocious Wahhabi resistence halts the Mongols on the Yemeni border. At that point, Khan Chengai decided to end his offensives for a while to reorganize his newly created state
Not until 2023 does the khan feel that he is ready to continue his expansion. In 2023, he launched a multipronged assault on Yemen and the survivng western part of Saudi Arabia. The Yemeni and Saudi Wahhabi armies are bewildered and destroyed piecemeal by the Mongol offensive. On June 27, Chengdai rode into the Islam's holiest city, Mecca.
Chengdai opened his next campaign in early 2027, invading the Kingdom of Greater Isreal, destroying its army at the Battle of Ashdod. The surviving Isreali forces flee to the coastal cities and Jerusalem. Chengdai undertakes the Siege of Jerusalem in August. The Mongols finally storm the city in December. The king of Isreal, trapped in the citadel makes peace be giving up most of his land to the Mongols in exchange for his life.
In 2028, Chengdai invaded the island of Socotra off the coast of Yemen. The ruler of Socotra surrendered promptly and was annexed as a protectorate. The next year, Chengdai launched invasions of Qatar and Bahrain, but was killed when his flagship was destroyed by a Qatari flotilla. Despite this, his son Subedei completed the conquest of the islands by the end of the year.
Subedei preferred consolidation to conquest. He ended any offensive operations for several years as he tied his often hostile and always disorganized realm together His only war was an attempted invasion of Egypt in 2043, which was soundly defeated by the Egyptians and mercenaries.
In 2046, the UKA invaded and captured the island of Socotra.
Diplomatic Situation
The Mongol Baghdad Khanate is at peace, for the moment, with its immediate neighbors.
The Baghdad Khanate has been at war with the UKA since the Royal Navy first entered the Persian Gulf in 2015. The conflict intensified when a UKA/South African task force invaded Socotra in 2046.
The Imperial Family
Khan Subedei is forty-six years old. He has a reputation for being a cauatious man and superb organizer. He has numerous wives and dozens of children. His First Wife, Deborah, was a Jewish captive. His eldest sone and heir, Juchi, is twenty, and serving as an officer in the army.
Military Situation
The Baghdad Khanate has several hostile neighbors. To the north lies the Sultanate of Adana, to the west the tiny but well defended Kingdom of Isreal, ain the Sinai lies the border with Egypt, and off the coast of Yemen is the UKA-owned island of Socotra. At least one, and perhaps two of its cavalry Tumans have been loaned to neighboring khanates. The remainder of the army is deployed along the Turkish border or in internal garrisons.
Army Organization
The Baghdad Khanate uses the same basic military organization of all the other Mongol states. The striking arm of the army is the horse cavalry, organized in 10,000 man units called Tumans, each subdivided into ten 1,000 man regiments. Most Tumans have several batteries of artillery, usually black powder, but increasingly more modern captured Japanese or Roman weapons. Current estimates give the Baghdad Mongols 3 Tumans of cavalry: one Mongol Guard Keshik, one Persian, and one mixed central Asian mercenary. The foot Tumans are belived to be three Persian Armenian, seven Arab, and one Jewish. All subject levies, are organized similarly, but are much inferior in equipment and morale. It is not believed that the Baghdad Khanate posesses any armored vehicles.
The organization of the Infantry Tuman.
The organization of the Mongol Cavalry Tuman.
Navy Organization
The Baghdad Khanate is the only khanate with a substantial navy. Unfortuantely for them, poor relations with its neighbors has kept it fairly primitive. Most vessels are of circa 1860 technology, with few armored vessels and no modern guns.
Military Equipment
Troops of the first regiment of the Mongol Keshik are armed with refurbished Soviet AKs, the others with a mixture of bolt action rifles of diverse provinance. The other cavalry Tumans are armed with about 50% bolt action rifles, mainly recently captured Roman 6.5mm Carcanos or Japanese 7.7mm Toyatas, and 50% with black powder carbines. All have Tumans one battery of 81mm Roman or Japanese mortars and two batteries of muzzleloading guns. All Baghdad Mongol Army horsemen carry bows, swords, and lances in addition to their regular arms. The subject levy infantry are mainly armed with black powder smoothbore muskets of domestic manufacture.
Economy
The Baghdad Khanate has an elaborate trade network with its neighboring khanates. It shares a long, but mountainous border with the Turks, and there is some land trade. In addition, it has some trade though its ports along the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, mainly with the Indian states, Indonesia, and Japan.
The Baghdad Khanate does not permit trade between its subjects and the UKA or Commonwealth.
Known exports include: slaves, wheat, some timber, salt, flax, sheep, pigs, goats, cattle, horses, ships, black powder arms and munitions.
