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The General Staff drew up plans for a bold operation to invade the Cape and its Songun islands, using almost the entirety of the Arcer Army. It also would require a significant contribution from the Paulastran, who would have to drive South and invade the Cape. The Operation, codenamed ''[[Operation Lightfoot|Lightfoot]]'', would be the largest military and combined arms action undertaken by Arcerion to that point. Preparations began by forming an Airborne Division and training remaining Arcer troops for seaborne landings. Supply ships and the naval power required to sealift, escort, and support ground forces as they mvoed inland and attempted to seize ports would continue to be marshalled with merchant mariners called to service and the Confederate Parliament nationalizing several Arco businesses in the maritime trade and cwrgo shipping industry to acquire the tonnage required for such an operation. | The General Staff drew up plans for a bold operation to invade the Cape and its Songun islands, using almost the entirety of the Arcer Army. It also would require a significant contribution from the Paulastran, who would have to drive South and invade the Cape. The Operation, codenamed ''[[Operation Lightfoot|Lightfoot]]'', would be the largest military and combined arms action undertaken by Arcerion to that point. Preparations began by forming an Airborne Division and training remaining Arcer troops for seaborne landings. Supply ships and the naval power required to sealift, escort, and support ground forces as they mvoed inland and attempted to seize ports would continue to be marshalled with merchant mariners called to service and the Confederate Parliament nationalizing several Arco businesses in the maritime trade and cwrgo shipping industry to acquire the tonnage required for such an operation. | ||
==== Southwestern Peninsular Campaign ==== | ==== Southwestern Peninsular Campaign ==== | ||
Alstin indicated to the CJASH that it was prepared to conduct landings on mainland Crona, to both support the war industry with the natural resources from the small, despotic Indigenous countries but also to provide itself with additional basing as its fleet increased in size to a wartime footing. This coincided with increased naval presence and the Alstinian naval action against the Caphirian Navy's Solemia Squadron, which such the destruction of much of the Imperial tonnage for relatively few Alstinian losses. This was part of the Alstinian campaign plan of both supporting their Arcer allies as they prepared for a major land engagement, while also trying to stymy the flow of resources from Varshan and Central Crona to Sarpedon's war effort. | Alstin indicated to the CJASH that it was prepared to conduct landings on mainland Crona, to both support the war industry with the natural resources from the small, despotic Indigenous countries but also to provide itself with additional basing as its fleet increased in size to a wartime footing. This coincided with increased naval presence and the Alstinian naval action against the Caphirian Navy's Solemia Squadron, which such the destruction of much of the Imperial tonnage for relatively few Alstinian losses. This was part of the Alstinian campaign plan of both supporting their Arcer allies as they prepared for a major land engagement, while also trying to stymy the flow of resources from Varshan and Central Crona to Sarpedon's war effort. | ||
=== Operation Lightfoot === | |||
''Main article: [[Operation Lightfoot]]'' | |||
In June of 1936, Arcerion had finished preparations for the invasion of the Cape and sent an Army Corps to land in the Cape and its Songun islands, to both destroy their military infrastructure, and with the eventual goal of seizing Cape Town and the Southern ports from which the majority of the Capetian Navy had been operating. The operation was earmarked by the largest air landing of paratroopers in the war, with three concurrent naval landings, two on the Cronan mainland and one on the Songun island of XX. The early phases of the operation were an unmitigated success. Capetian troops, devoid of the experience or institutionalized doctrine and knowledge of their Caphirian mentors began to shatter and break, and Arcer drives inland saw great success for Arcer forces. Capetian commanders achieved mixed successes with counterattacks and defensives, with those that had Caphirian training and support often providing stiff resistance against Arcer troops, inflicting heavy losses before they were forced to retreat, whilst the majority of Capetian officers, chosen for political reliability and indoctrinated with socialist teachings, sent waves of troops into fruitless attacks or sited poor defensive positions allowing numerically inferior Arcer soldiers to destroy them. | |||
Via the [[Ceylonia|Ceylonian Consulate]], the Cape received diplomatic notice from Arcerion, supported by the navies of Burgundie and Alstin, that the invasion would continue until the Cape capitulated, expelled all Caphirian forces from its land, and submitted to an occupation by Urcean and allied forces for the duration of the war. The Cape unilaterally denied these terms, and continued to fight Arcer troops. As the summer ended and turned to fall in 1936, Arcer troops had established significant beachheads and consolidated their gains on the Capetian mainland, having fully seized the island of XX, which now served as an ideal staging point and base of operations to support the main offensives. To the North, Paulastra was driving its troops South, having been convinced to join the war effort by Urcean promises of additional territory and economic cooperation to support the Paulastran economy. Its forces split on two fronts, the Northern Front and the Peninsular Front, and its ships aggrieved by Burgoignesc , Alstinian, and Arcer fleets at sea, the situation for the Cape was bleak, and cries for assistance to Caphiria were unheeded as even the Caphirians were unable to extricate themselves fully across St. Brendan's Strait due to the growing number of Arco submarines and allied warships patrolling there. | |||
=== Operation Severance === | |||
Drive psot-lightfoot consolidation | |||
drive into the Capetian heartland | |||
january 1937 - fall 1937 | |||
stalemate by end of 1937 | |||
== Mid War (1938-1940) == | == Mid War (1938-1940) == | ||
More fighting in Sarpedon and Crona in 1938. Capetian forces are making gains by this point (?). Faneria reaches its greatest point of advance (?) before newly available R&IA troops and Urcean military as well as improved Fiannrian army jointly push back Fanerians and surround their breakthrough. General fighting everywhere. | More fighting in Sarpedon and Crona in 1938. Capetian forces are making gains by this point (?). Faneria reaches its greatest point of advance (?) before newly available R&IA troops and Urcean military as well as improved Fiannrian army jointly push back Fanerians and surround their breakthrough. General fighting everywhere. | ||