Kalistani Major History

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OOC:

Revolutionary Socialist Militia of Kalistan to launch limited, last minute intervention into Statrica.

Working this out with Lourenne, the RSMoK will drop three batteries (18 guns) and two Battalions of light infantry (400 grunts) into Statrica as a rearguard force, not necessarily meant to intervene on behalf of the DU, but just to sting Lourenne.  This intervention will not change the outcome of the invasion.  RSMoK expects to lose between 70 and 80 percent.  As I was mentioning to @Luis1p, it is more like a "Che Goes to Bolivia" move, where the Guerrillas can't seem to get much together, until they finally run out of supplies, get sick and are crushed by the people who didn't know they were there until the Guerrillas were on their last legs.

Kalistan proper does not acknowledge the intervention.

IC:

The Statrican DiariesDay 2

The Guns were dropped off last night, along with the rest of the Infantry.  I put most of the infantry to bed, but set the first watch.  Soon we will begin patrols, circling out from the firebase, trying to make contact with DU elements and the local population.  We expect our arrival here will go entirely without notice, at least for the time being, but that won't last long.  I'll keep our pickets out at 5 clicks, and keep the FOs out at 7:  there's a nice set of hills north of here that look over into the roads leading between Statrican cities here in the North and Lourenne beyond the frontier.  If the Lourenne flies fall into the web, the FOs have gotta know first, and then they have to get out of there, so they'll fall back to the pickets and then come back to the base. 

It's really hard to believe how far things have gone, how far I've come.  To think:  Just over fifteen years ago, I was in Lourenne.  We were talking peace.  And now I'm in just a couple hundred miles south of there, in the countryside, living off the land as the Political Officer of the Militia's expeditionary unit.  Its true, the Party didn't even let the new President know we were leaving.  I ought to pissed.  I would have wanted it different if it were me.  But it isn't...  anymore.

Surely the Party knows this is a hopeless affair:  Statrica is almost entirely overrun.  I should be happy.  They kept their sh-t together this long.  But this has the feeling of being "too little, too late."  The goal is not to turn back the tide.  Lourenne and their imperialist friends have more or less won.  But The Party wants to make it costly.

It's significantly warmer here than in Ananto.  And a lot dryer.  And a lot more sparsely populated.  But our morale is excellent, all of our guns have arrived, our troops are in place, and tomorrow, we begin the conditioning.

I miss Kaliburg already.  It has been my home for ten years, but now, I have a new job for the Republic.  I won't fail.