Acrean Intervention in the Refusal War

Operation Tveegget
Part of the Refusal War
RAAF strike fighters over Syara
Date January 1984 - October 1987 Location Syara
Belligerents
Acrea Royalists	Wardens
Units involved
Acrean Armed Forces	Wardens
Strength
4,000 troops 1,500 aircraft 23 ships

Acrean Intervention in the Refusal War, codenamed Operation Tveegget, began in January 1984 in accordance with a mutual cooperation agreement between the government of the Republic of Syara and Acrea. Concerns over rising Warden nationalist ideology in Syara led Acrean officials to open backchannel communications with the Republic in 1979. Although traditionally adversaries due to Acrea's longstanding close relationship with and support for Ruvelka, both parties recognised the Wardens as a mutual threat; the Acreans assessed that the Wardens would heighten threats to Ruvelka and increase the risk of major war breaking out, while the Republic's government recognised the Wardens as a threat to the stability of Syara and the existing regime. While discussions over potential strategies to suppress Warden ideology in Syara were ongoing throughout 1980, and contingency was formed in 1981 in the face of increasingly aggressive Warden rhetoric and increasing political instablity in which Acrea would provide material and military support to the Republic if military action became necessary to manage any Warden threats to the current Syaran regime.

Acrean foreign policy quickly and strongly stood behind the Royalists. Chancellor Wolfgang Matthes issued statements of support backing President Mircevski's attempts at reconcilement, worded with a distinct sympathy for Royalist factions of the Syaran government. Although the events building to the outbreak of violence throughout 1983 did not fall under the circumstances envisioned in the prior 1981 agreement, Mircevski's sudden death and the Warden push to power pressed the Acreans towards intervention in cooperation with Royalist factions of the government.