Chamorro War

Chamorro War/Kaesong-Marquesan War
Date 6 July 1921 (1921-07-06) - 12 January 1928 (1928-01-12) (6 years, 6 months and 6 days) Location Chamorro Islands, Hiakemiria Result Kaesong Victory, permanent seizure of the Chamorro Islands from Marquesan.
Belligerents
Kaesong Chamorro Liberation Association	Marquesan
Commanders and leaders
Hamamoto Jaeon Kita Hiroki (Admiral of the Kaigun Dageki Kantai) Sasaki Gina (Vice-General of the Chammorros)	Marq Leader Marq Commander
Strength
Kaesong State Army: 25,000 Kaihei-Heishi (Marine Soldiers) 12,000 Sentō-Kōhei (Combat Engineers) Kaigun Dageki Kantai: 4 Uguisu-class Carriers (Hane, Kuchibashi, Urakugi, Fezā) 2 Araiguma-class Battlecruisers (Hanzai, Zasshu) TBA TBD Light Cruiser TBA TBD Destroyers	tba marq soliders + naval presence
Casualties and losses
Kaesong State Army: 6,000 Kaihei-Heishi 4,000 Sentō-Kōhei Chamorro Liberation Association: Approximately 7,800 members killed or imprisoned during the conflict Kaigun Dageki Kantai: 16,000 Sailors, tbd ship losses	tba marq casulties

The Chamorro War, also known as the Marquesan-Kaesong War (1921-1928) was a conflict fought between Kaesong and Marquesan over the Chamorro Islands, a series of islands which offered a valuable naval position in the Sea of Arrack. It would be the first directly-administered territory lost by Marquesan since TBD War, and a colossal point of national pride for Kaesong and its descendent states, propping up the government until the 1929 Revolution despite the failing health of Hamamoto Isao.

The war began shortly after the Chamorro Uprising of 1920, where the Chamorro Liberation Association (later revealed to have been directly established and organized by Kaesong) staged a large-scale revolt in several major port cities- which Kaesong would use to seize said ports and begin the establishment of naval fortifications to prevent the stronger Marquesan fleet from moving into the naval territory of Kaesong. The war would stalemate for several years until the casualties suffered during the Marquesan-Nachmere War forced Marquesan to pull out and rededicate resources to said conflict.

Kaesong would incorporate the Chamorro Islands into its growing state, with the forced settlement of the islands in larger numbers creating an entrenched Korean-Chamorran upperclass which would be crucial in ensuring the Anagonian handover of the islands to Neo-Korea in the wake of the Korean Civil War, alongside having notable effects on later state through their general economic influence.

Prelude

In the wake of Kaesong's independence, it would take a hostile tack towards Marquesan in-line with Pan-Hiakemirist beliefs, owing to the belief in the government in such philosophies. This hostile relationship would manifest in Kaesong assisting in any native revolutionary grouping it could find or create, the most successful of these descendent groups being the CLA, owing to existing economic discontent in the territory due to the Nachmere-Marquesan War.

Chamorro Uprising

Main Article: Chamorro Uprising

The Chamorro Uprising would be lead by the Chamorro Liberation Association, a body formed and funded by Kaesong for the majority of its existence (1910-onwards), who, under the leadership of Jent Oratmangoen (The "Father of Chamorroan Internal Independence) would, in a series of daring raids on key Marquesan colonial offices and military bases, would seize the territory necessary for Kaesong to move into the country and take control of those areas they had been unable to seize. The CLA and Kaesong would immediately form a mutual compact to fight against Marquesan, based on a generally shared understanding of Pan-Hiakemirist Doctrine (and pre-war funding of the organization by Kaesong).

Post-Kaesong Intervention

Seizure of Key Port Cities

In concordance with the forces of the CLA, Kaesong would seize key territory in port cities to act as a staging ground for defensive fortifications and incursion on the other portions of the islands. This was primarily accomplished by the Kaihei-Heishi Marine Soldiers, who rapidly infiltrated Marquesan military positions in the Chamorros and seized resources to be distributed to CLA soldiers. Functionally, the land war would be primarily won with this action, owing to the forcing of Marquesan soldiers into an unfavorable position which their attempts to remedy with naval action would not be able to solve within enough time to make full-scale intervention viable while the ongoing Nachmere War was still being an active drain.

Foreign Response and Involvement

Meridon

Meridonian President Augustin Herrera would sell arms to both sides of the conflict, allowing him to repair some of the economic damages caused by the post-Takerehāia economic slump.