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Rahelian War
Part of Zorasani Unification
Date 20 July 1965 - 9 January 1968 2 years, 173 days Location Zorasan Result Stalemate Return to the status quo ante bellum UKP failure to topple the Zubaydi monarchy and reunify Zorasan Zubaydi failure to liberate Khazestan and Ninevah Community of Nations Resolution No 338 Subsequent overthrow of the Zubaydi monarchy through a socialist revolution
Belligerents
Zubaydi Rahelian Federation Template:Country data Estmere Halland	Union of Khazestan and Pardaran Supported by: Xiaodong Ajahadya Kadaria
Strength
400,500 soldiers More: 600-900 tanks, 900 armoured vehicles, 350 artillery pieces, 185 aircraft 250 helicopters	650,000 soldiers More: 1,100-1,300 tanks, 1,000 armoured vehicles, 450 artillery pieces, 485 aircraft 450 helicopters
Casualties and losses
49,577 killed 99,020 wounded 8,500 missing Template:Country data Estmere	68,683 killed 120,000+ wounded 3,593 missing
100,000+ civillians killed 1.5-2.5 million civillians displaced

The Rahelian War (Rahelian: الحرب الرحيليّة; Pasdani: جنگ راهلیان) was an armed conflict that began on 20 July 1965, when the Union of Khazestan and Pardaran invaded the Zubaydi Rahelian Federation, following two weeks of bitter of skirmishes. The war lasted just over two years, and ended in a stalemate, after Estmere intervened in defence of the Zubaydi monarchy, and the UKP accepted a Community of Nations brokered ceasefire agreement on 9 January 1968. The UKP justified its invasion by claiming Zubaydi forces had launched incursions into Ninevah from the region of Ajad and this together with various assassinations and the backing of minority separatist groups, constituted a "significant threat to the sovereignty of the Union." By prosecuting its invasion, the UKP hoped to topple the Zubaydi monarchy and secure the unification of Zorasan through the annexation of Irvadistan and Riyadha, the Federation's two constituent kingdoms.

The UKP, believing that its economic, demographic and military superiority would result in a rapid and decisive victory over the Zubaydi monarchy underestimated by the Zubaydi military's ability to resist and the commitment of outside powers to maintaining the Federation and the balance of power in northern Coius. Despite making rapid gains, capturing the region of Ajad and threatening to cut off Riyadha from Irvadistan, the invasion stalled after eight months into a stalemate. The UKP’s initial air superiority was steadily diminished soon after as Halland and Estmere dispatched reinforcements to support the ailing Royal Zubaydi Federal Air Force. From 1966 to 1967, the UKP launched repeated offensives aimed at breaking the Zubaydi lines and decisively knocking out its capacity to resist further, however, these attacks were deflected and the UKP began to suffer from attrition. On 10 November 1967, the UKP launched a final offensive, successfully breaking through Zubaydi lines and coming within 10 miles of the capital Sadah, before a decisive full-scale intervention by Estmere broke the UKP’s momentum. Facing the prospect of an Estmerish-led CN intervention or a joint Estmerish-Hallandic amphibious landing from the Gulf of Parishar, the UKP conceded and accepted a CN-brokered ceasefire on 9 January 1968.

The war constituted one of the largest of the mid-20th century and saw widespread use of jet aircraft, guided missiles and surface-to-air missile systems. The two sides adopted very different tactics, with UKP armoured units and the Zubaydi’s Royal Sand Raiders earning acclaim for their records and discipline. The war also brought about significant economic, political and cultural changes, with the UKP seeing the institutionalisation of the “cult of martyrdom” and “collective self-sacrifice”, while in the Zubaydi Federation it served to galvanise an embryonic Rahelian nationalism. However, the human, economic and social cost of the war in the Federation would result in a coup d’état six months after the war’s end, which resulted in the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a socialist state known as the United Rahelian People’s Republic. A decade later, tensions between the UKP and the URPR resulted in the latter’s surprise invasion of northern Khazestan, though this attack would be hastily defeated and a UKP counter-invasion ultimately succeeded int toppling the URPR in 1976. A referendum in 1978 resulted in popular backing for unification and on 1 January 1980, the Union of Zorasani Irfanic Republics was founded.

In total, an estimated 98,260-108,000 Zubaydi and Khazi-Pardarian soldiers died over the two-year conflict, in addition to the estimated 150,000-185,000 civilians also killed. A total of XX Estmerish and XX Hallandic soldiers were killed. The war’s end in 1968 resulted in no border changes, reparations or confirmation of guilt by the aggressor.