by lewiselder1 » Sat Jul 14, 2018 6:26 pm
Dovani Union Preparations In Full Swing
October 4423
The long-prophecised moment has arrived: Dovani is at war.
The Great Dovani War has begun. The Northern Council, led by Hutori, has charged forth with an arsenal of devastating weaponry and significant power. Commentators initially were dubious: how could the Dovani Union possibly hope to survive this?
Recently, the colonies have answered back defiantly, and now the conclusion seems a little less obvious. Could the Dovani Union hold out long enough to win?
While the Northern Council has spent its time breaking through the Dovani Union's naval defences and readying its air forces, the DU has been preparing for the coming invasion, with some nations like Medina appearing to have been readying themselves for years in secret defensive policies.
Clearly expecting the weaker naval and air branches of the pooled Dovani Union military, under the command of a handful of key generals and commanders, guided by military legend Emperor Azeez himself, to fail, they have elected to specialise in building up their land-based capabilities.
Aside from recuitment drives across the union providing a large boost to troop numbers, production lines rushing to develop equipment and arm the troops well, and the many nations of the DU organising its collective military for maximum efficiency, the DU has cleverly utilised its spare time (while it remains unopposed on land by the NC) to develop a complex, guerrilla-style set of defensive structures. Why bother with forts when the enemy has high-flying bombers? Instead, it appears a complex, top secret network of tunnel systems and underground bases has been crafted beneath the citizens' very feet!
While details are scarce, they're likely to be well-hidden, filled with decoys and traps, and labyrinthine, allowing the troops to hide away at night, do away with the restraints of conventional tactics and warfare, and secrete themselves underground until the time is right to strike. "The enemy could trample on all the land," said one general, "and still not win: they shall have to simply kill every last one of us, and we shall never -- never -- give up." Additional measures include releasing special forces operatives into particularly zealous local communities, it is said, a trick which could prove fatal for the NC if they don't counteract this measure -- or is it all just a decoy?
Indeed, morale seems high, with many still buying into the logic of colonial nationalism -- Azeez's landmark book on the ideology he helped to create describes it as an immortal idea where even death, failure and collapse cannot eliminate it, so long as it lives on in the hearts of the people. Considering the attack from the NC is widely viewed as an example of the "first-world modern-day imperialism" the book criticises in depth, it seems like an impossibly difficult task to undo this through violence -- but pulling out, of course, would only hand the so-called "Second Victory of Colonial Nationalism" prophecised by Azeez to the DU: defeating the West in battle. With colonial nationalism also seeming to be inherently linked to colonial imperialism in the likes of Medina, Xsampa, and, according to critics, the Dovani Union itself ("merely a tool for Medinese control," according to one Dundorfian commentator), this would be not only humiliating for the NC but disastrously bad for their main objectives (namely, combating the empires and their allies.)
All-in-all, the DU has prepared well for this war. Their victory -- and survival -- would depend not merely on manpower, but on morale, on belief. If the DU can hold out for long enough, utilising their massive numbers and skilled strategists well enough, could this seemingly one-sided war finally turn the tables on global politics, and hand the third-world the power it so desires?
All that is left is to watch events unfold -- the DU appears to be merely delaying, waiting for the real war, the war on land. Unfortunately for the champions of peace and an early retirement to hostilities, the NC is landing in New Alduria, and events appear to be in full swing. How will it end? Nobody knows. All that is known is that whatever happens, this war will undoubtedly change the continent forever, and perhaps even the face of Terra itself.
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