Valentine's Day Crisis

Valentine's Day Crisis
Top Left to Bottom Right: The damaged ARS Poseidon, Tulese troops in a standoff with Arcevian troops, Arcevian troops dug in a border crossing, Landakot and Urquhart meeting in Lovehavn.
Date February 1989 Location Australis Result Arcevian frigate heavily damaged, tensions between Tule and Arcevia temporarily worsen. Signing of the Kjellen Agreement
Belligerents
Supported by: Rodarion	Supported by: Skanderian Union Dniegua Template:Country data Gratislavia Sieuxerr
Commanders and leaders
Template:Country data Arcevia Roderick Urquhart Template:Country data Arcevia Marcus Armstrong Template:Country data Arcevia Catherine Stanford Template:Country data Arcevia Travis MacDiarmid	Prime Minister Jóhanna Landakot
Strength
Template:Country data Arcevia 760,320 troops by February 14th SARCOM Army Composition South-Western Regional Command 14th Armoured Brigade 104th Light Infantry Division 3rd Mountain Rifles 6th Army Air Squadron South-Central Regional Command 6th Armoured Brigade 94th Light Infantry Division 23rd Mountain Rifles 13th Army Air Squadron South-Eastern Regional Command 3rd Armoured Brigade 12th Light Infantry Division 5th Mountain Rifles 7th Army Air Squadron SABRCOM Air Force Composition South-Western Air Command 9th Fighter Wing 104th Bomber Wing 3rd Maintenance Battalion 6th Logistics Wing South-Central Air Command 12th Fighter Wing 54th Bomber Wing 23rd Maintenance Squadron 13th Logistics Wing South-Eastern Air Command 72nd Fighter Wing 39th Bomber Wing 18th Maintenance Squadron 11th Logistics Wing Arcevian 3rd Fleet Navy Composition Task Force Seven 81st Naval Group 104th Marine Battalion 3rd Marine Air Squadron 6th Logistics Group Task Force Eight 72nd Naval Group 74th Marine Battalion 10th Marine Air Squadron 76th Logistics Group Task Force Nine 34th Naval Group 164th Marine Battalion 83th Marine Air Squadron 90th Logistics Group	Template:Country data Tule 650,000 troops by February 14th Dniegua 5,230 Naval Infantry deployed on SAN Keflavik 12th Submariner Squadron 6th Destroyer Flotilla 3rd Naval Aviation Wing (incl. 7th Seastrike Squadron) Sieuxerr Over 25,000 Sieuxerrian military personnel located in SAN Keflavik 4th Carrier Strike Group 8th Carrier Strike Group 2nd Destroyer Squadron 5th Destroyer Squadron 6th Destroyer Squadron 33rd Tulese Dragoons Regiment 112th Infantry Battalion Over 100 land-based aircraft
Casualties and losses
ARS Poseidon 21 Dead 45 Wounded 1 Frigate damaged Border Clashes 43 Dead 94 Wounded	ARS Poseidon 1 Killed (Suicide) Border Clashes 52 Dead 119 Wounded

The Valentine's Day Crisis was a 15-day long confrontation between The Union of Arcevian Republics and The State of Tule and her Skanderan Union Allies in February 1989.

ARS Poseidon incident

See also: ARS Poseidon incident

In the early hours of February 14th, the ARS Poseidon, an Arcevian frigate was attacked by a Tulese Air Force Kria-14.

Border Skirmishes

As news of the Poseidon attack spread along the Tulese-Arcevian border, troops on both sides of the border exchanged small arms and mortar fire.

Aftermath

The slow mobilization and the overall difficulty the Tulese military had with command and control over its own forces came as a shock to Tulese military and civilian authorities alike. Although the idea of a professional volunteer force had slowly been growing more popular in Tule over the years, the Valentine's Day Crisis is generally credited as being the main motivating factor behind the 1992 Tulese military Reform.

The crisis left Supreme Chancellor Urquhart's first Supreme Council sharply polarized between the Radical and Moderate factions. Unable to function, Urquhart dissolved his first Supreme Council and appointed his second Council in 1990 which he ran until his withdrawal from the chancellorship in 1995. The international support for the Tulese surprised the Supreme Council, who has long maintained a policy of armed neutrality from all nations during the Cold War.

In 1990, Arcevia and Tule later normalized their relations when Arcevian Supreme Chancellor Roderick Urquhart and Tulese Prime Minister Jóhanna Landakot and the rest of the Skanderan Union met for the Kjellen Summit in Kjellen, Lovehavn where they signed the Kjellen Agreement.