Bourgougian Blitz

Bourgougian Blitz
Part of the Millennium Crisis
(clockwise from top left) Bourgougian soldiers during the Battle of Ouvrard, Carlosian APCs in the streets of Arceneaux, jet fighters dogfighting over Bourgougia, a torpedo detonates beside the CN Marshal, Carlosian soldiers during an amphibious assault on the Bourgougian coast, Agostinian infantry clash with Bar and Acrarian troops
Date 17 March – 25 August 1987 (1987-03-17 – 1987-08-25) (161 days) Location Carloso, Bourgougia, Agostinia Result Carlosian-Agostinian victory Liberation of Victory Collapse of Red Bourgougia Carloso Beginning of the Bourgougian Civil War
Belligerents
Carloso Agostinia	Bourgougia Barssois Acrary
Supported by: Vizkigeric Orticuria Côte D'Émeraude	Supported by: State Union
Commanders and leaders
Adrian Mitsotakis Gabriel Quesada Robert Barrett Isaías de Coronil Fernado de Bogado Alfred McCullough Nestore Scipio Stephen O'Dea Dylan Graciani Víctor Langston Salvador Águas Matheus Alcantara Roldão Dieudonné	Régis Lemaigre  Léonard Joubert Élie Boutroux Jean-Charles Celice William Rochefort Gérald Michaux Charles Rodier Ladislas Trouvé Paul Clérisseau Jules Didier Samuel Burke Thomas McIntyre
Units involved
1st District Army 3rd District Army 7th District Army 10th District Army 1st Infantry Army 2nd Infantry Army	1st Field Army 2nd Field Army 3rd Field Army 5th Tank Army Expeditionary Division
Strength
Total: 1,200,000 1,000,000 200,000	Total: 920,000 800,000 100,000 20,000
Casualties and losses
Moderate	Heavy
At least 10,000 Carlosian civilians killed, tens of thousands of Bourgougian civilians. Colossal damage done to Bourgougian infrastructure

The Bourgougian Blitz (17 March – 25 August 1987) was a short but intense military conflict that was fought primarily between Carloso and Agostinia against Bourgougia, who were aided by forces from Barssois and Acrary. It broke a period of relative peace and calm in Musgorocia following the conclusion of the Emergency War in 1951, with a newly resurgent Bourgougia, which had been under the control of a communist military dictatorship since 1964, seeking to press its claim on the densely populated Carlosian exclave of Victory, located on the border with Côte D'Émeraude. Victory had fallen under the control of Carloso after a war between the two countries in the 1790s. As dictator of Bourgougia, Régis Lemaigre prioritised the country's remilitarisation to realise this objective. The war began on 17 March when the Bourgougians simultaneously had Carlosian President Liam Moran assassinated by special forces and launched a massive, devastating assault on the almost defenceless Victory.

With only a token Army garrison and a small, mostly unarmed police service to defend the city, Victory was quickly overrun by the Bourgougian forces. Some units refused to surrender, performing guerrilla operations against occupying forces for the remainder of the war from the city's main skyscrapers. The Bourgougians treated Victory's citizens brutally, sending them to internment camps in the north east of the country and summarily killing many hundreds.

Background

Following the conclusion of the Emergency War and the defeat of Synarchist Bourgougia in 1951, Carloso became the unquestioned superpower of the Musgorocian continent. While the country quickly rebuilt and experienced a prolonged economic boom, the rest of the continent remained devastated by years of military conflict. Aided by various extra-continental forces, the feeble democratic regimes in Bourgougia and Barssois were overthrown in communist military coups in 1964 and 1966 respectively, enjoying extensive popular support. These also precipitated coups in Acrary and Frontiere. These new regimes succeeded in rebuilding the cities and countryside through vast public works schemes, beginning a phase of rapid industrialisation as they sought to match the economic output of Carloso once more.