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Title: Azhara: A History of Beiteynu Navy
Author(s): Ishmael, Elias

Published: Gem Publishing
Year: 5430
Language(s): Yeudish (original); multiple translations.
Physical Details: 431 p.
Subjects: History (of Beiteynu).
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Summary: Azhara (Warning) Diplomacy chronicles the origins of the Navy of Beiteynu and its peak as a global force in Terra, during the Emergence Era of Beiteynu.

Baruch Lea Tzafrir made it abundantly clear from early on that the Navy of Beiteynu would serve as the Military of Beiteynu's primary arm in exerting the Beiteynuese Government's influence in the international arena.

Subsequent administrations carried on that policy for hundreds of years, marked heavily by distinct events that had absolutely nothing to do with the military and everything to do with the Diplomacy of Beiteynu, the Shipping Industry of Beiteynu and the Equifund.

What is especially interesting is that by the military's advocacy of "defensive deterrents", the navy has mostly done nothing except act as a breaker, amplifier and deterring force in Yishelem's games of influencing interests. With a few exceptions. The first crisis with Malivia in the Migrant's Pass in the 53rd century, then the Third Solentian Civil War and then the Migrant's Pass crisis of the 55th century are 3 out of 3 cases where the Beiteynuese Defence Force decided to break its policy of "aggressive defence", and leaned more on "defensive aggression".

All 3 instances ended in debacles and billions lost.

Proving a point, apparently, that Beiteynu cannot execute "gunboat diplomacy". So it invented its "own thing" of maintaining one of the most expensive navies in the world as the reverse: to thwart and deter "gunboat diplomacy" by others, with the most long-standing cases being represented by the "beef" with Dorvik and the activities of the MSCO, which Beiteynu ended up loaning most of its equipment to enforce regional security in Majatra.

And then it loaned more of it to is allies; the formation of the Zaar Fleets marked the deployments in not 1, but 4 countries across 3 continents. The once notorious "Beikun Fleet" with Kundrati was the biggest thorn in Artania's affairs for more than a century.

Then came the alliance with Eroncourt at the onset of the 54th century, which changed everything.

Bathing the defence industry and the Equifund in an endless cascade of billions in defence contracts, the navy eventually formed the Shahar Fleets, a carrier battle group which, for the first time, rivalled Dorvish hegemony in international waters; poking and retreating in arrogance to screw with the "old" order.

As it seems, despite the latest events painting a picture of "withdrawal" in Beiteynu's 200-year unstoppable expanse in Terra, while the scene stabilises, the navy still remains the Yeudi Game's most whimsical military toy in "aggressive defence"; a more "practical" manifestation in the dance of Yeudish interests.

So, will the might of the Yeudi navy continue to tango?

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Originally posted by GreekIdiot on Jan 27, 2024.