Wars of the Disinherited

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Wars of the Disinherited
Date 1717 AN - 1750 AN Location Corum, Eura, Keltia Result Subsided after 1750 AN
Belligerents
Confederacy of the Dispossessed  Ostland (1719–1720)  Jazir-e Kreyak (1722– )  Republicanos (1737– )  Cerulea (1727–1730, 1737–)	Raspur Pact Concord Alliance Treaty Organization (1734– )  Hurmu (Senatorial Faction)  Floria (Until 1727,1733)

The Wars of the Disinherited were a series of conflicts between the Confederacy of the Dispossessed and the Raspur Pact forces, beginning in 1717 AN and continuing up to 1750 AN.

Related Conflicts

• Evacuation of Moorland in northeast Keltia;
• Operation Lefthand Punch, Operation Green Marauder, and  Operation Southpaw in northeast Keltia;
• Operation Jungle Bolo and the Norasht campaign in eastern Eura, followed by Operation Eastern Watchtower;
• Operation Purple Splendor and Operation Purple Shroud in southeast Keltia;
• Operation Purple Reign in northeastern Eura;
• Operation Thunder Drop, in Haifa and Blore Heath proper, and the Sea of Storms;
• Siege of Dalen, in Dalen (aka Jangsong):
  •  Operation Revetment;
  • / Operation Sable Shield;
• Corsair Wars;
•  Operation High Voltage.
• / Normark-Cerulea war of 1727
•  Surenid Civil War
• / East Keltian Collapse
• The Corsair Resurgence
•  Corum War

Aftermath & evaluation

While the Raspur Pact was able to secure a number of its objectives during the conflict, the scale of the resistance offered by the Confederacy of the Dispossessed caught them off guard and required a number of years to quell.

The Benacian Union acknowledged the loss of 2,809 armoured vehicles during the Norasht and Normark campaigns. The majority of these losses being attributed to ex-Bassarid quadwalkers and UAVs adapted by the Disinherited to deliver anti-tank munitions directly against weak spots in the AFVs defensive armour whilst defeating active and passive munition kill systems by utilising swarming tactics. With so many resources devoted to internal security and the preservation of the Harmonious Society against its malcontents, the Benacian Union would face an uphill challenge if it was to successfully replace not only the battlefield losses it had endured but also the aging equipment in its inventories like the CV-56 Horjin - the oldest surviving examples of which dated back to the Kalirion Fracture.

The reliance of the Raspur Pact upon strategic bombardment to overcome operational-level obstacles remained a signature feature of their campaigns. The orbital bombardment platforms maintained by the Natopian Defense Force were the most visible contribution of the Bovic Empire to the allied cause. Orbital strikes on ex-Bassarid ports in Corum, Eura, and Keltia, did however have a beneficial strategic effect in forcing the dispersal of the Corsair fleets which might otherwise have offered more effective support to the resistance in Norasht and Passas.

The conflict also saw the rapid evolution of technologies with a military application developed by Nouvelle Alexandrie. It was not all an upward trajectory for that Federation however, as the Emergency Shipbuilding Program demonstrated the extent to which the ruling FHP and the Honourable Company had permitted a culture of corruption to flourish at the expense of efficiency. Nonetheless, the conquest of Passas had been a major victory for the allied cause.

Floria's own evolution, from a regional power, whose forces had been focused on the potential for a land war against the quixotic empire of Jingdao, into a maritime expeditionary power with global interests, had also experienced challenges. The dispatch of significant expeditionary forces to Normark and the Suren Confederacy had taxed its logistical and transportation systems beyond their normal upper thresholds, as was witnessed by the arrival of forces in Ostland without the bulk of their artillery, a shortfall remedied by the deployment of BUDF artillery assets.

The Florian invasion of Ostland, whilst a successful intervention, had inflicted frightful casualties on the Ostlandic and Nova English populations of the region, and into the bargain had normalised the formerly taboo battlefield use of chemical weapons - this having begun as a temporary expedient in the absence of artillery before becoming a matter of routine use.

The cooperation of the Hurmu Peace Corps with allied forces in the District of Moorland, concurrent with the allied intervention in the 1719–1720 Hurmu civil conflict, underscored the extent to which Hurmu, for all its professions of neutrality, remained "Pact-adjacent".

The Imperial Federation had successfully established itself in the Strait of Haifa in the aftermath of mostly successful actions in Sea of Storms. It's contribution to the Norasht campaign, whilst more limited, had allowed for the capture of several islands, the largest of which would be jointly garrisoned and controlled with the Suren.

See also

• Confederacy of the Dispossessed.