Luepolan War

Luepolan War
Part of the Luepolan Spring and the Silent War
Date 7 August 1979 – 8 July 1985 (5 years, 11 months and 1 day) Location Luepola, Vorochia, Oriental Sea Result Luepolan and Vorochian victory: Treaty of Skalla signed Withdrawal of Vierzland from Luepola and Vorochia Vierz sphere of influence significantly weakened
Belligerents
Vierz Empire Vyzinia Zacotia Plosenia (until 1984) Tanavia (until 1983) North Granzery (until 1981) Supported by: Borland (until 1982) Lairea (1981-82) Yugaria (until 1983) Zastria (1981) North Granzery (1981-1983)	Luepola Vorochia Communist Militants Supported by: Tierada Vonzumier Apelia Cestros Pererra Camardocia Simora Aitic Union (until 1984) Hevatia Bhasar
Commanders and leaders
Victor IV Stefan Vogt Jens Pohl Philipp Lorenz Uwe Scholz Filip Rušil Havel Dvořák Zbigniew Pietrowski Arkady Kuchta Zoran Štern Vladislav Kovać	Emil Ivanušić Ratimir Vuković Branimir Raganović Mladen Barišić † Luka Marinković Danylo Ruda Leonid Tereshchenko
Strength
VKH: 850,000 men 4,500 AFVs 5,000 artillery pieces 3,000 tanks 2,000 aircraft Others: 230,000 men 2,500 AFVs 1,200 artillery pieces 700 tanks 800 aircraft	LOV: 735,000 men 3,200 AFVs 2,500 artillery pieces 1,500 tanks 450 aircraft SNVL: 320,000 men 1,800 AFVs 2,800 artillery pieces 1,000 tanks 250 aircraft VSV: 235,000 men 1,500 AFVs 2,300 artillery pieces 800 tanks 530 aircraft
Casualties and losses
Total dead: 120,000 Total wounded: 400,000	Total dead: 275,000 Total wounded: 620,490
Total civilians killed/wounded: 108,000 (est.) Luepola: 76,000 killed/wounded (est.) Vorochia: 32,000 killed/wounded (est.)

The Luepolan War (Vierz: Lüpolenkrieg), known in Luepola and Vorochia as the Liberation War (Luepolan: Oslobodnočni rát; Vorochian: Визвольна війна), was a war from 1979 to 1985 in Luepola and Vorochia. The conflict was fought between the Central Patyrian Cooperation Association led by the Vierz Empire, and Luepola and Vorochia, who had both unilaterally withdrawn from the CPCA.

The war was preceded by the March Uprising, in which mass protests and riots led to the ousting of the pro-Vierz Luepolan leadership by sympathetic military officers and members of the Sliet. The new Luepolan government's decision to withdraw from the CPCA provoked the Vierz invasion itself, which began in the following August; the invasion was expanded during planning to also target Vorochia after its coup d'etat. The war lasted for six years, ending with the Treaty of Skalla, wherein Vierzland and its allies recognized the new governments of Luepola and Vorochia and agreed to withdraw from the two countries.

The Luepolan War remains the deadliest and most destructive war fought in Patyria since the Great War. The war is also considered the climax of the Silent War, as the weakening of Vierzland's economy and military over the course of the war hastened the breakdown of the CPCA and the start of the Vierz Revolution. The war is also considered to comprise the second phase of the Luepolan Spring.

Course of the war

1979: Vierz Invasion

Main article: Operation Modi

1984: Luepolan Counteroffensive

Main article: Operation Hurricane

Foreign Involvement

Supporting Vierzland

While Operation Modi was undertaken primarily by Vierzland, most of the CPCA's key members also participated in various capacities, with the notable exception of North Granzery, which was then in talks with its southern counterpart concerning their reunification. Vyzinia, Zacotia, Plosenia, and Tanavia each contributed military forces, while Borland and Lairea supported the war diplomatically. Vierzland's key non-CPCA ally Savland did not contribute to the Vierz effort.

Supporting Luepola and Vorochia

The Aitic Union, despite facing social unrest of its own against the communist government, became the primary foreign military supplier of Luepola and Vorochia during the war until its dissolution in 1984. The Aitic Union's aid consisted firstly of small arms smuggled across the Vorochian border and with humanitarian shipments to Bosunija, but later grew to include tanks and aircraft, broken down and shipped to Luepola and Vorochia, along with military advisors. In 2006, it was revealed in a series of interviews with former partisan and other insurgent commanders that they were supplied with weapons and training from Aitic military personnel operating in Vierz-controlled territory.

The Continental Security Organization, with the exception of South Granzery, also supplied Luepolan and Vorochian forces with weapons, ammunition, and advisors deployed to Bosunija. In addition, the TBN Military Exercise hosted in Apelia in 1983, which brought the CSO and CPCA to the brink of war, forced Vierzland to withdraw units from Luepola to deploy to the Apelian border in anticipation of a possible war, relieving pressure on Luepolan and Vorochian forces and enabling them to mount a sweeping counteroffensive. Though never officially acknowledged as such, the timing of the exercise is widely recognized to have been a deliberately calculated geopolitical maneuver by the CSO.