Valentine's Day Crisis

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Valentine's Day Crisis
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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.
DateFebruary 1989
Location
Australis
Result Arcevian frigate heavily damaged, tensions between Tule and Arcevia temporarily worsen.
Signing of the Kjellen Agreement
Belligerents

Template:Country data Arcevia


Supported by:

Template:Country data Tule


Supported by: Flag of NATO.svg Skanderian Union

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.

Prelude

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.

Reaction

Tule

Arcevia

International

Crisis Ends

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.