Winter War (Pardes)

Winter War
Part of the Cold War
File:S Akkadiya Ocean War montage.png Clockwise, from top: The Belhavian Majestic-class battleship HIMS Majestic firing at the opposing Estovnian fleet during the Battle of the Gap of Glat Seyling; Peace negotiations between Anticommunist and Communist governments in Chaleur, Emmeria, in April 1960; Sieuxerrian Army artillery unit firing at Estovnian positions during the Skanderan Campaign; Tippercommoner fighter-jets on the tarmac in the Ross Archipelagos in preparation for combat flights against Tulese forces in the South Akkadiya Ocean.
Date 3 November 1959 - 27 March 1960 Location Akkadiya Ocean, Ross Archipelagos, Australis, Skandera Result • Strategic Belhavian and Anticommunist victory. •• Military victory achieved in preventing invasion of Tel Nafesh. •• Military victory achieved in disrupting long-term ability of Tule to interdict Belhavian shipping lanes. •• Military failure in later goal to overthrow Tulese and Estovnian Communist governments. • People's Republic of Tule recognizes Tel Nafesh as Belhavian territory. • Tule and Estovnian First Republic maintain territorial integrity. • Tule ceases to be a blue-water naval power. • Conduct during war sparks new naval and air technology development across the world.
Belligerents
Belhavia Temuair Supported by: Template:Country data CDI Anticommunist World Rodarion Arthurista Eagleland	Template:Country data Tule Tule Template:Country data Estovnia Estovnia Supported by: Template:Country data Otterup Pact Communist World DSRA Template:Country data Ankar Ankaran Union
Commanders and leaders
Yavin Leibniz  ?? Template:Country data Tippercommon Rodger Sessions Template:Country data Tippercommon Lewis Rivas Template:Country data Arcevia Grayson Spearing Template:Country data Arcevia Colton Stamper  ??  ??	Template:Country data Tule Vilhelm Móberg Template:Country data Tule Ágúst Borg Template:Country data Estovnia ??
Strength
1960: ?? 1960: ?? Template:Country data Arcevia1960: ?? 1960: ?? 1960: ??	Template:Country data Tule 1960: 2,900,000 Template:Country data Estovnia 1960: ??
Casualties and losses
?? dead ?? wounded	Template:Country data Tule Tule: 26,351 dead 25,432 wounded

The Winter War (3 November 1959 - 27 March 1960) was an early Cold War conventional military conflict between Belhavia and Tule that ignited a nearly 6-month-long war in the North Taverian region. The war was initiated from an isolated 12-day conflict between Belhavia and Tule called the 10/3 Incident, and then several weeks later, Belhavia would declare war on Tule and Estovnia after the release of the Borg Telegraph. Several anticommunist allies and powers joined Belhavia's side and war commenced. After three months of fighting, anticommunist forces had prevented a joint Tulese-Estovnian landing on Ross Archipelagos and had largely defeated the Communist powers on the open seas. However, efforts to invade and topple the OttPac-aligned regimes by land proved futile, and a truce was declared on March 27th, 1960. On April 24th, 1960, the Treaty of Chaleur was signed by all sides, and the war was formally concluded.

The war was one of the most critical and direct clashes between the Anticommunist and Communist worlds in the early Cold War, and was characterized by the transition of military technology from the Twenty Years' Wars era into the modern era. The conflict also helped to crystallize certain themes and postures concerning the Cold War by both sides, including assumptions about the intractability of Communist regimes, the nature of Cold War-era warfare, the role of new technologies, and other attitudes. By the 1980s and 1990s, many of these assumptions would be changed or discredited.

Background

Global

The Twenty Years' Wars of the 1930s and 1940s, including the civil wars in Arthurista, in Ulthrannia, and in the Western states, as well as broad regional conflicts including the Great Eastern War and the Belhavian-Livrichese War, fundamentally transformed the world. Military technology, ideologies, longstanding governments, and an industrial global economy gave way to disruptive forces.

Two global powers, Ulthrannia in the Near East, and Prestonia, in the Far East, had been knocked from their geopolitical perches. The emergence in 1949 of OttPac, an alliance of newfound Communist governments that came into existence either before or right after the mid-20th century wars, was challenging the capitalist world system, sparking the Cold War.

The development of nuclear weapons and their apocalyptic potential sparked the creation of the World Council in 1956. Between 1949 and 1959, the Anticommunist and Communist worlds viewed each other warily but had little-to-no direct confrontations due to the spread of nuclear weapons.

Belhavian-Tulese Tensions

Belhavia was one of the leading anticommunist powers of the world, but had gone through political and military turmoil, internal rebuilding and social re-harmonization, and had supported the defeated Tulese monarchists in Tule's revolution.

The Tulese communist government had been militarizing and viewed Belhavia as a looming threat. The small Communist country was in the direct path of Belhavia's eastward shipping lanes in the Sea of Spartans, and close enough to Belhavian colonial possessions including the Weissland Islands and the Ross Archipelagos. Between 1953 and 1961, Belhavia was led by President Yavin Leibniz, a committed liberal of the center-left. Leibniz's large naval cuts and reforms in the late 1950s piqued Tulese interest.

In an April 1959 memorandum, Tulese Premier Vilhelm Móberg asked his leading military commanders to explore the feasibility of interdicting Belhavian merchant and military sea traffic in the South Akkadiya Ocean as well as the feasibility of invading and occupying the Ross islands.

In June and July 1959, his senior military officials reported back that the Tulese military had the power to unilaterally interdict Belhavian sea power as the Belhavian navy had grown too small to police the entire region and had several obligations across the world. The report also added that with Estovnian help, they had a 60% chance to successfully invade and hold the Ross island chain. Móberg ordered preparations made and had the construction on several new destroyers and cruisers rushed to be completed by the target date, set for November 1st, 1959.

10/3 Incident

Main article: 10/3 Incident

Taverian Theater

Esto-Belhavian Land Campaign

(WIP) The Arcevian Government has expressed concern with the military build-up being taken by the Tulese government. While it did not officially acknowledged its support of the Anti-Communist World, the Arcevians supported the defeated monarchists in the Tulese revolution against the communists. Border clashes between Arcevian and Tulese security forces erupted in December 5, 1959. The first reported exchange of gunfire occurred in the Marlborough Border Crossing in the Arcevia, with five Arcevian Border Guardsmen killed in the resulting gunfire. These clashes soon spread across all of the border checkpoints, alarming the Arcevian government that the Tulese are invading.

F-19 Valiants providing close air support to an Arcevian unit fighting Tulese units, December 30, 1959.

Operation STRIKE

Approved into action by Supreme Chancellor Grayson Spearing at the suggestion of the Supreme Council, Operation STRIKE was initiated in December 25, 1959. After Supreme Chancellor Spearing's address to the public, the UAAF began mobilizing 1.43 million troops into action and put pressure to the Tulese government. The National Domestic Reserve were also mobilized, ordering 500,000 irregulars and civilian militia into action with the rest being placed in reserve. General Colton Stamper, the Commander of the UAAF, was tasked of commanding the invasion forces. Four NOACOM units consisted of combined army and air force units surged north, blitzing through the Tulese border guards. Eight units stood in reserve with orders to surge after initial invasion. It consisted of the other half of NOACOM and the first half of CENACOM. Three fleets of the Arcevian Navy also engaged the Tulese Navy, pushing into Tulese territory. Three hours after the initial surge, the order to surge forward was given to the rest of the NOACOM.