Operation Paramount

Operation Paramount
Part of Third Euran War
Constancian Scouts of the 506th Army on the "long and bloody road to Shahzamin".
Date 1698 AN Location Northern Eura
Belligerents
Raspur Pact  Constancia  Nouvelle Alexandrie	. Azad Eura Various Central & Northern Euran States
Units involved
Trans-Euran Command  Nivardom Banner Command 506th Army (Molivadia Province) Nivardom Banner Fleet (The Slave Fleet) Nivardom Banner Air Group  Susa Banner Command I (Alduria) Combined Arms Corp x9 "Rapid Response Units" (Air Assault Brigades) Euran Fleet 1st Air Fleet	Ethnic, Sectarian, and Tribal Armed Militias

Operation Paramount is the New Alexandrian codename of a military invasion and seizure of the northern Euran Green that bordered Nouvelle Alexandrie, the Thraci Confederation, and Constancia that began in 1698 AN by the Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie and the Imperial Constancian Armed Forces. The joint operation is genereally considered as Nouvelle Alexandrie's official entry into the Third Euran War on the side of Constancia and Suren after years of providing material and financial support to both nations.

Following the western expansion of the Thraci Confederation into Razjania in late 1693 AN, New Alexandrian and Constancian diplomats meeting in nearby Fontainebleau signed a secret agreement. This agreement was signed in 1697 AN after years of negotiations and planning to cement their joint political and military collusion to seize the remaining northern Euran Green areas to prevent further expansion of the Thraci Confederation or any foreign designs on the area that could compromise regional stability and national security.

The invasion was further motivated by the ongoing consequences of the West Baatharzi War, which pushed many of the West Baatharzi militias and groups across the Nouradin river after the military campaign, which allowed then-independent Alduria to settle and annex the fertile lands of West Baatharz. Since the end of the West Baatharzi War, native Euran militants and Azad Eura have launched thousands of rocket and mortar attacks on the New Alexandrian Region of Alduria from the Green banks of the Nouradin river. These attacks have killed dozens of New Alexandrian civilians, including children, and wounding others, as well as causing damage to infrastructure.

Background

Nouvelle Alexandrie

Before the formation of the Federation in 1685 AN, independent Alduria had no clear policy toward the developing strength and boldness from the groups forming Azad Eura and the remaining militias and populations that were displaced from West Baatharz during the West Baatharzi War. Special paramilitary teams from the Aldurian Department of Defense often engaged in covert operations and paramilitary operations to gauge the strength of these groups operating in the vast Euran Green between Constancia and Alduria. Around the same time, top foreign policy officials offered several proposals to begin to settle the lands and expand Alduria into them in order to accomodate the waves of immigrants coming to Alduria to settle under its Law of Graces.

Things began to change when in the early 1860 ANs, Aldurian settlers and entrepreneurs formed settlement and colonization companies, much like they had in the past to build and settle into new lands that were previously not part of Alduria but were later annexed. There is great motivation for these settlement and colonization companies to be created, particularly an economic dimension, driven by the significantly lower costs of housing, cheap availability of labor, and the high demand for construction that construction companies were ready to meet. To further exacerbate matters, due to the special attention many new communities recieve from the government in order for them to succeed, government spending per citizen in new settlements is double that spent per Aldurian citizen in major cities like Punta Santiago, for instance. Most of the spending goes to the security of the citizens and towards the construction of critical infrastructure necessary for the success of the new communities. To add to this, Aldurian law generally only considers land within their legal registry to have owners, therefore, new and annexed territories usually had significant amounts of land that first settlement companies would claim as their own, but then later on was capped by Aldurian regulations, which led to the government holding much of the "free" (referring to unowned) lands. The majority of these lands, generally called "public lands", were usually held in trust for the people of Alduria by the national government and managed by the Aldurian Department of the Interior.

After the formation of the Federation in 1685 AN, settlement policy was strongly encouraged by the government of President Alejandro Campos. He pursued an aggressively expansionist agenda that saw Nouvelle Alexandrie expand rapidly beyond its original constituent nations of Alduria and the Wechua Nation. The expansion plans implied annexation of major parts ungoverned territories, especially islands and land between the valuable sea and air routes between the Federation's Euran and Keltian territories. After these plans were realized and the Regions of New Luthoria, Islas de la Libertad (where expansionist designs by rival Çakaristan were foiled), North Lyrica and South Lyrica, new plans were drawn up for a massive territorial expansion to close the vast gap of Green territory between the Region of Alduria and Nouvelle Alexandrie's ally and important trade partner, Constancia.

Around the mid-1890 AN's, well after the expansionism of Campos administration, the government of Nouvelle Alexandrie largely ignored the newly forming settlement companies that were crossing the Nouradin river from the Aldurian states of Alcalá, Carrillo, and West Baatharz. Many of these began to establish settlements in lands that were still ungoverned, without the sanction and protection of the government. This, in turn, bagn to rile up the displaced populations from the invasion of West Baatharz, not to mention the groups that formed part of Azad Eura and were embroiled in the continent-wide Third Euran War. They were established as outposts secured by private security firms and later expanded and populated with civilian inhabitants.

Constancia

The official explanation of the Imperial Constancian Government regarding its involvement in this scheme was the need for more living space, as its growing population also had growing needs for housing and employment, and while sufficient development was taking place within the elite enclaves of Aqaba and Petropolis, the Constancian elites didn't exactly want to be living side by side with the workers, and the growing middle class of professionals, middle managers and expatriates also wanted enclaves of their own. Of late, Constancian development was also bottlenecking due to the lack of adequate professionals, and while the Nouvelle Alexandrie and other Raspur Pact nations were ready, able, and willing to provide their own (in order to help keep their own local economies afloat), the longer-term plans required the sustainble development of a Constancian professional middle class. Get rich, recommend, but be silent and do not agitate about political matters. This was the hybrid political economy and governance scheme proposed for the next great leap forward.

Timeline

1695

IV

• 13: Representatives from Nouvelle Alexandrie and Constancia begin secret, high-profile meetings in the city of Fontainebleau, facilitated by their common participation in the Euran Economic Union. Early drafts and plans for an invasion of the ungoverned Green territories in northern Eura are discussed.