Every nation gives everything.

Every nation shall transfer to SPEAR the whole (100%) of its military and security manning and equipment, present and future, measured across every branch and every category, within the timeline set in Article VII. After the transfer, no nation maintains a military force under its own flag.

Manning

The mandate applies to all active-duty personnel across all branches: army, navy, air, space, cyber, special operations, intelligence, coast guard, gendarmerie, and national security services. Personnel are transferred as volunteers; a nation that cannot fill its quota with volunteers must fund SPEAR's recruitment of the shortfall from any nation.

Equipment

The mandate applies to every category in full, so that no hardware of any kind remains under a national flag. Each category is assessed and audited separately.

Future strength

The mandate is continuing, not one-time. Every person recruited, every weapon built or bought, and every base opened after ratification belongs to SPEAR from the day it exists. Defense budgets, arms production, and military recruitment become SPEAR functions. No nation may rebuild a national force in parallel; domestic policing remains national and unarmed beyond ordinary law enforcement.

Audit

Each nation's transfer is verified by an audit team drawn from at least five other nations and published in full. Under-reporting of strength, substitution of degraded assets, or withholding of spare parts and training is treated as non-compliance under Article VII.

No exemption

Neutrality, treaty status, size, or internal conflict does not exempt a nation. A nation with no military contributes the disaster-response capacity of its police and emergency services, or the equivalent in funding.

The heaviest obligation.

Nations that possess nuclear weapons, or the means to build and deliver them, carry the heaviest obligation under this charter, because they hold the only weapons capable of ending the species they claim to defend. In addition to the 100% Mandate, every nuclear-capable nation shall:

1. Open its arsenal to SPEAR monitoring. SPEAR observers are stationed at every nuclear weapons site, command facility, and delivery platform base, with uninterrupted access. No launch order is lawful unless a SPEAR observer has witnessed it. Each observer is paired with an independent electronic monitor, installed and maintained by SPEAR, that reports site status, warhead custody, and launch-system state to SPEAR command in real time over a channel the host nation cannot cut. Every observer makes a daily check-in by a personal code known only to them. A missed check-in, a duress code, a loss of monitor signal, or the death or removal of an observer triggers an immediate planetary alert: all nuclear-capable nations are notified within minutes, SPEAR response forces are placed on launch-warning posture, and the site is treated as compromised until a replacement observer confirms its status in person. Killing or detaining an observer is itself a trigger for intervention under Article IV.
2. Place its early-warning systems under shared watch. Radar, satellite, and seismic early-warning feeds are mirrored to SPEAR in real time, so that no nation can be deceived into a launch by a false alarm that another nation's sensors could have disproved.
3. Contribute its best, not its surplus. The first phase of transfer from a nuclear-capable nation must include its most capable strategic lift, surveillance, missile defense, and nuclear-incident response units, with the crews trained to run them.
4. Fund the counter-proliferation watch. Nuclear-capable nations jointly fund SPEAR's permanent monitoring of fissile material, enrichment, and weapons programs worldwide, including their own.
5. Accept SPEAR custody of warheads in a crisis. If a nuclear-capable nation is found by SPEAR to be committing or enabling genocide, or if its command authority collapses, SPEAR may take physical custody of its nuclear weapons until lawful civilian authority is restored.

Answerable to the people alone.

SPEAR answers to no nation, alliance, bloc, or international body. It answers to the people of all nations directly.

Oath

Every member of SPEAR, on transfer, renounces their national chain of command and swears a single oath: to protect all people, of every nation, including from their own leadership. A member who takes orders from their nation of origin while serving is discharged and barred.

Command

Operational command rests with a Planetary Command Council of fifteen officers, each from a different nation, no more than three from any one continent, serving single non-renewable five-year terms. No nuclear-capable nation may hold more than one seat. The Council elects its own Commander from among its members for a two-year term.

The People's Assembly

A civilian assembly of 500 members, chosen by lot from the adult population of the world in proportion to population, sits above the Council. It approves the budget, confirms Council appointments, may remove any officer by majority vote, and may order SPEAR to act or to stand down. Lot, not election, so that no party, wealth, or state can capture it.

Transparency

Every deployment, every rule of engagement, every budget line, and every after-action review is published within 30 days. SPEAR keeps operational secrets only for the duration of an operation, and never from the Assembly.

No veto

No nation, including those contributing the most, holds a veto over SPEAR action. A nation may withdraw its personnel only by the process in Article VII, and never during an operation in which they are engaged.

Authorized, and obligated, to intervene.

SPEAR is authorized, and obligated, to intervene with force wherever war crimes or genocide are being committed or are imminent, and to respond without force to any other emergency that threatens mass loss of life.

Triggers for armed intervention

• Genocide, ethnic cleansing, or the deliberate destruction of a people
• Mass killing, starvation, or forced displacement of civilians as a method of war
• Use of chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons against any population
• Deliberate attack on hospitals, aid corridors, shelters, or refugee populations
• A government turning its own military against its own people at scale

Triggers for unarmed response

Pandemic, famine, earthquake, flood, wildfire, reactor accident, asteroid or space-weather threat, infrastructure collapse, or any disaster that overwhelms the nation it strikes. SPEAR responds on request of the affected population, not only its government.

Rules of engagement

SPEAR uses the minimum force needed to stop the killing and protect civilians. It does not pursue regime change, does not seize territory, does not take sides in the underlying political dispute, and hands all detainees to an independent tribunal. It withdraws when civilians are safe and a lawful authority can protect them.

Three-key authorization

No SPEAR action that may take a human life proceeds without the separate, recorded approval of three parties, and all three must say yes:

1. The human observer — a SPEAR officer on the ground or at the command post, who sees the situation directly and who is personally accountable for the decision.
2. The machine observer — an AI or automated system, independent of the human chain, that checks the intelligence against the raw sensor feeds and flags any data that cannot be verified at source. The machine observer may veto but may never initiate; no action rests on machine-generated intelligence alone.
3. The public observers — a standing panel drawn by lot from the People's Assembly, voting by majority, with the evidence before them in the open.

This applies to every deployment, every intervention, and every planned strike or targeting decision. Where a SPEAR member uses lethal force in immediate defense of life, with no time to seek the three keys, the act is lawful only if all three parties confirm it on review within 72 hours; every such death is published with the evidence. A killing that fails review is referred to the independent tribunal under Article VI.

Speed

First responders are on the ground within 72 hours of a confirmed trigger; a full task force within 14 days. Pre-positioned regional commands on every continent make this possible.

Funded by the people. Staffed by volunteers.

So that no government can starve it or command it.

Funding

Each nation redirects to SPEAR the share of its defense budget that paid for the 25% it transferred. Beyond that, SPEAR is funded by a direct, transparent, individual contribution from the people of every nation, collected and published in the open, never routed through a national treasury. No donor, state or private, may attach a condition to a contribution.

Volunteer service

No one serves in SPEAR by conscription. Transferred personnel may decline and return to national service without penalty; their nation must replace them. SPEAR also recruits directly from any population, military or civilian, and trains to a single global standard.

Terms of service

Standard enlistment is four years. Pay is set by the People's Assembly, equal across all nations of origin for the same rank and role, and paid by SPEAR, never by the member's home nation. Members and their families receive the same medical care, housing, and death benefit regardless of where they came from.

Civilian corps

Alongside the uniformed force, SPEAR maintains a civilian corps of doctors, engineers, analysts, linguists, and relief workers under the same oath and the same protection.

Limits that cannot be amended.

A force strong enough to stop any nation is strong enough to become the danger it was built to prevent. These limits are permanent and cannot be amended by SPEAR, the Council, or any nation.

1. No offensive war. SPEAR may never initiate war against a nation, annex territory, install or remove a government, or hold ground beyond the end of a mandated operation.
2. No nuclear weapons. SPEAR shall never own, build, or use nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. Custody under Article II is temporary and witnessed.
3. No secret police. SPEAR's intelligence watch is directed at threats to populations, never at individuals, dissidents, journalists, or political movements. It holds no surveillance data on any person beyond an active operation.
4. Term limits and rotation. No officer serves on the Council twice. No unit is garrisoned in one region longer than three years. No national contingent exceeds 10% of any deployed force.
5. Civilian removal power. The People's Assembly may remove any officer, halt any operation, or dissolve any command by majority vote, and SPEAR must comply within 24 hours.
6. Independent tribunal. SPEAR members accused of crimes are tried by a standing civilian tribunal drawn from nations not involved in the operation. SPEAR cannot try its own.
7. Right of refusal. Every SPEAR member has the duty to refuse an unlawful order and the protection of the Assembly when they do.
8. Sunset review. Every ten years the people of all nations vote by direct ballot on whether SPEAR continues. If a majority votes no, it is dissolved and its strength returned.

Ratified by the people, not by their rulers.

This charter takes effect when ratified by direct popular vote in nations holding a majority of the world's population, whether or not their governments agree. Ratification is by referendum or petition, not by legislatures or heads of state. A government that refuses to hold the vote is deemed to have lost it.

Non-compliance

A nation that refuses to transfer its share, under-reports, or withdraws personnel during an operation loses, in order: its seat on the Council, SPEAR disaster response to its territory except for its civilians directly, access to shared early-warning feeds, and recognition of its forces as lawful combatants by SPEAR. Its people retain every protection this charter offers; only its leadership is penalized.

Amendment

Any article except Article VI may be amended by two-thirds of the People's Assembly, confirmed by direct popular vote.