Amokolian War
The Amokolian War (also known as the Ocian War, War of Amokolian Liberation and by Ocians as the Patriotic War of Liberation from Facsism [sic]), was a military conflict fought between the 1st of September and 7th of October 2009 primarily in Amokolia on the continent of Benacia, but later in Ocian territories on Keltia and Apollonia. The culmination of rising tensions between Ashkenatza and Ocia at the time, it eventually drew in a large number of other micronations and resulted in some important changes to the political atlas of Micras, primarily on Benacia. Belligerents included Ashkenatza, Antica, Shireroth, Hamland, Ocia, the Imperial Mercenary Empire, Babkha and the National Provisional Amokolian Authority, and observer and peacekeeper forces from a number of nations including Batavia and Stormark.
Background
Ashkenatza and Ocia had throughout the summer of 2009 reached an impasse in diplomatic relations with regular belligerent declarations made on a regular basis against eachother by both governments- this hostility believed to originate in Ashkenatzi refusal to enter into full diplomatic relations with Ocia after being cautioned by wary overseas friends and diplomats as to the nature of the Ocian leadership under President Matt Kovac. By late August of 2009 tensions had gotten worse due to the Ocian annexation of the formerly independent Kingdom of Amokolia as a member of the Ocian Federation. Ashkenatza, wary of the new Ocian presence to its north, feared for its long-term security and after the Ocian government closed the border between Ashkenatza and Ocia and began to fortify the long border between Ocian Amokolia and Ashkenatza, Foreign Minister of Ashkenatza Maximos under the new provisional government of Nohsi Herr Pachad Emet ben Mavet declared war on the Ocian Federation on August 31st in a public announcement in the village of Bozparozbany, White Litovina, stating that 'the unilateral closure [of the border] is an affront to Ashkenatza's natural dignity which makes normal bilateral diplomacy [with Ocia] impossible'. Goltz continued in saying that "the dangerous and miliaristic streak of unilateralism inherent in the foreign policy of President Kovac makes him a reckless leader who endangers the civil society in which he has been, regretfully, permitted to operate [...] in light of which the Republic of Ashkenatza cannot tolerate the Ocian intrusion into the civilised pantheon of Benacian nations. As such the Republic of Ashkenatza considers it its moral duty to liberate Amokolia from its disastrous decision to enter into a formal union with this dangerous pariah state."
On the 1st of September the MCS officially began a RecWar under the Anunia Convention ruleset and that very same day Amokolia erupted in open rebellion against Ocian rule, a move agreed over a week beforehand in private during a meeting between Ashkenatzi and Amokolian dignitaries. The National Provisional Amokolian Authority, led by former leader and founder of Amokolia Jess Heimer, armed itself and started acts of civil disobedience in the capital of Ocian Amokolia, Anun, and made diplomatic overtures to Ashkenatza to join their struggle. It was henceforth that Ashkenatza, which also had territorial ambitions itself in the region, began to refer to the war as the War of Amokolian Liberation. The Ocians, meanwhile, had begun to refer to it as a war of Liberation against 'Facsism' [sic], a name rejected by every other participant in the conflict who tended to refer to the conflict as either the Ocian War or Amokolian War.
Ocian forces had not by September 2009 deployed en masse to Amokolia, and the Ocian military presence there at the start of the conflict were solely border guards and special police units. The Ocian Federation, due to the revolt, therefore did not have de-facto control over large areas of Amokolia for much of the war and would have to deploy troops there during the conflict. By the start of the war it was clear that Ashkenatza would be supported by the Babkhan government of Hesam Jahandar Shahanshah in its war against Ocia, and with the inclusion of foreign powers it became clear that this war would be far larger than a regional conflict in Benacia.
