Operation Paramount
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 Constancian Scouts of the 506th Army on the "long and bloody road to Shahzamin". |
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 Raspur Pact
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Trans-Euran Command
| 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
New Alexandria
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 began to form
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.
Order of Battle
Timeline
1695
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- 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.
