Shock and Awe: Kazulia descends on Bianjie amid Skalm attacksKingdom of Kazulia unleashes military might on Bianjie Imperialist; Prompts major troop movements.Around 240,000 troops are to be rotated to the Mo Ching International Airport amid Kazulia searches for vengeance.Prime Minister Henry Wahlberg, Governor-General Harald Mikaelsen and Queen Alexandra unanimously announced open hostilities with Bianji's Imperial government and the expansion of the military campaign against the aforementioned Imperial government. Sources from within the Federal Department of Defence have stated that the decision by the government in Skalm to expand the campaign in Bianjie comes amid the recent attacks against Kazulia launched on the command of Emperor Itoh. After announcing the news to the international community, a defiant Emperor Itoh took to Bianjie television to denounce the Kazulian government labelling the nation's presence in the country as "illegal" and to say that his countrymen would be victorious once more. He championed the sentiment of using various tactics to halt to drive of the Kazulian campaign and threatened to conduct another chemical attack against Kazulian troops in the nation. Minister of Defence Gudhlek Lundberg has stated that the expansion of the campaign through the rotation of more than 240,000 troops to Bianjie had come in response to the Skalm attacks and the fact that the government and the people of Kazulia wants absolute retribution. The attacks recently executed in Skalm left around 100 people dead and more than 500 injured or in critical condition. It had been uncovered that the attacks had been executed on the command of Emperor Itoh and his "terror campaign" against Kazulia.
More than 50 cruise missiles, precision bombs, bunker-busting missiles were launched from warships in the Anantonese Sea, landing on various positions across Bianjie. Around 130 warplanes conducted sorties across Bianjie with the aims of a decapitation strike against Emperor Itoh and the chain of command of the Imperial army. Among the sites destroyed during the display of Kazulia's might, several chemical weapons facilities, weapons and ammo storage depots, major fuel depots and military installations including major fortresses, training camps and troop barracks. Immediately after the airstrikes artillery units positioned as Mo Ching International Airport targeted government offices in the capital and the Imperial Palace in an attempt to force Emperor Itoh to surface. It had been reported that several bunker-busting missiles had targeted the Imperial Palace where it was believed that Emperor Itoh had been hiding. Intelligence gathered from the Defence Intelligence and Security Organisation had led to strikes against Bianjie anti-air systems scattered across the southern portions of the nation. It had been reported that the Central Committee for Intelligence and Special Operations (SESO) was operating within in Bianjie in search for high-ranking members of the Imperial Armed Forces and the Imperial Government, however this has not been confirmed by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Cluster munitions being dropped on an Imperial Army fortification within the "lowlands"Posterior to the aforementioned artillery "thunder strike", Kazulian tanks and troops swept across the marginal line separating Kazulian troops from the remainder of Bianjie, opening a full-scale ground war against the Emperor Itoh's regime. The stated goal of the ground offensive according to Lt. General Harald Mathiasen, Commander of the Kazulian Security Forces was to destroy the infrastructure of Emperor Itoh's regime and to the usher the nation towards an era of democratic rule. The assault brings new risks and the prospect of many new casualties on both sides in a confrontation. While a ground war in densely populated Bianjie is likely to increase the civilian toll there, the Kazulian Army also faces new threats. Since seizing control of the territory a year and a half ago, Emperor Itoh's Imperial Forces has been able to smuggle in more dangerous weapons and launch an insurgency/terror campaign against the Kazulian Security Forces. Around 120,000 troops with CBRN equipment and training have left Mo Ching International Airport and are now hard-charging the Bianjie southern regions. Troops from the Army and the Home Guard have been rotated to the region, with counter-insurgency training to be conducted with the introduction of the Home Guard, which had garnered significant experience in counter-insurgency in suppressing the minor insurgencies in Hent decades prior. With the Imperial Forces coming increasingly desperate to the point that an insurgency had been launched by Emperor Itoh, the Kazulian Security Forces are expected to have little restrain against the Imperial Armed Forces on a background of the attacks in Skalm.
As apart of the psychological warfare campaign, the Kazulian Army dropped thousands of leaflets into some residential districts warning inhabitants to evacuate their homes. Because of “the activity of terrorist groups,” the leaflets said in Kunikata, the army “is obliged to respond quickly and work from inside your residential area.” Many residents of one apartment block in the affected areas said they had nowhere else to go and would stay in their homes. To boost support for the Indralan Defence Corps which are completely surrounded, it had been reported that the Kazulian Air Force has begun airlifting supplies into the mountain ranges. With the last battalion of Lourennais and Hulstrian troops withdrawing from Bianjie on direct orders from Kazulian Commanders, it appears that Kazulia's offensives in Bianjie have become personal amid the attacks in Skalm. The Department of Foreign Affairs has open a $20 million bounty on Emperor Itoh, thus prompting Bianjie's population and external entities to drive towards capturing Emperor Itoh. According to Lt. General Mathiasen the campaign is expected to be swift and merciless as some of the nation's most elite soldiers including special operations forces, marines and the Queen's Guards are currently participating in various operations throughout Bianjie, might it be behind Imperial lines or with the main thrust of the Kazulian Security Forces towards the South.
Operation Temptation: Internal Security heightened amid attacksSecurity Bureau heightens internal security with Directive 46; Home Guardsmen on streets of Skalm.Soldier's of the Queen's Guard seen assisting law enforcement as apart of Directive 46; threat level to remain at highest levelIn a scene reminiscent of a foreign military invasion, troops have been deployed to the streets of Skalm amid the Security Bureau was granted permission to initiate Directive 46, thus allowing the Home Guard presence to be heightened throughout the nation. Both the Prime Minister and the Minister of Domestic Affairs made clear in their announcement of the move that they are extremely wary of the political impact of the sight of armed soldiers patrolling the streets of Britain and want to use them for as short a time as possible. The deployment of troops onto the streets of Skalm has been dubbed as a major internal security move by the Security Services and directly flows from the decision to raise the threat level to its highest category. With the implementation of Directive 46, armed police officers responsible for duties such as guarding key sites will be replaced by members of the armed forces, which will allow the police to significantly increase the number of armed officers on patrol in key locations. It also means that police officers who previously did not carry firearms will be training in firearms use and safety and subsequently awarded with a temporary special firearms certificate, thus allowing them to carry firearms within a temporary period. The Queen's Guard had been deployed to public areas also metropolitan Skalm including sports centres and public parks in-order to assist the police in maintaining order and security.
Operation Temptation means that up to 5,000 armed troops can be deployed at sensitive sites and events, transport hubs and other crowded public places in order to release the armed police for other policing duties. They can only be used “to augment armed police officers engaged in protective security duties” and can only be authorised by an emergency defence meeting. The Department of Domestic Affairs stressed on the fact that the deployment of troops to the nation's streets was a temporary measure and the public will see their withdrawal from the nation's streets when the Security Bureau declares that the national threat level can be reduced. The decision to increase the threat level was taken by the National Counter-Terrorism Operations Centre, which analyses and assesses all intelligence relating to international terrorism in Kazulia and overseas. It brings together counter-terrorism experts from the police, the security services and the departments of Brimnesskogar House. National Commissioner of the Federal Police, Alfred Hanssen stated that they had launched an investigation into the attacks and was in consistent collaboration with the Security Bureau and the other security services.