Operation Lightfoot

Operation Lightfoot
Part of 2nd Great War
(Clockwise, from top right): MGen Johnathan Eddis, Commander of Arcerion's 1st Airborne Division works with staff on the DZ to coordinate H-Hour +1 movements; Members of the 1st Arco Parachute Battalion move inland during combat operations during H-Hour +5; Heavy fighting and destroyed aircraft at a Cape military airfield outside of Novasar where Arco Paras rush to cover during shelling; An NCO with the 3rd Arco Parachute Battalion looks skyward as the remainder of his company completes their insertion as part of the 2nd wave.
Date XY - YZ Month Year Location Southern Crona Result Arcerion tactical and operational victory, Strategic Stalemate
Belligerents
Arcerion	The Cape
Commanders and leaders
Johnathan Eddis Niels de Fluyer
Units involved
1st Airborne Division 2nd Infantry Division 5th Infantry Division	Cape Armed Forces

Operation Lightfoot is considered to be one of the largest and most aggressive airborne operations of the Great War, with over 20,000 Arcerion soldiers airdropped followed by thousands more via sea. It was fought in the Cape and surrounding territorial waters and islands from XY - YZ Month Year, between the Arcerion Army and Air Force and the Armed Forces of the Cape. In response to a rapid increase in socialist and communist sympathizers taking over prominent positions in the Cape, and slowly moving it towards a socialist state, the Arcerion Army was tasked with seizing much of the country's vital infrastructure to prevent communist control of the important Songun Straits. The result was a pitched series of battles over several months, culminating in the collapse of Cape Armed Forces' resistance and subsequent withdrawal to the East. Operation Lightfoot coincided with the Paulastra offensive OP XYZXYZ, which centered on a land-based invasion of the Cape from their shared territorial border.