Eastern Terra Cooperation Conference

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Her Highness, Lady Nicolette Ananto-Collins, Princess of the Empire
Empire of Ananto and Kalistan

It is my belief that Kalistan did express interest in the CISA framework as well, when the government of Lodamun first discussed it. Kalistan's assets primarily exist in space, via high orbit geosynchronous satellite networks that focus not only on the approaches to the Anantonese Ocean, but also traditional hotspots for activity. Granted, it is not a 100% satellite network, and was mainly developed during our conflict with Kundrati, so its primary focus is Artania, the Mad Dog Ocean and Keris, as well as the central Anantonese and Northern Seleya, but I can say that our Government is planning, within the near term to extend that surveillance network over northern Majatra as well.

We also have a major investment in subsurface sonar in the Northern Anantonese Ocean, as well as a major OTH radar presence in both Kalistan and Gaduridos. All of these elements are part of the Fortress Kalistan defensive doctrine. We utilize a hybrid of human and machine learned assets to collect and analyze a constant stream of data, and the idea, which has only ever been tested in exercises, but never for real, is to give Kalistan a 48 hour head start on the arrival of any forces, to give us time to deploy forward units in case of a surprise.

The goal, quite frankly, is to deny the enemy the element of surprise on every point. We, of course sacrifice overwhelming force: Kalistan cannot be everywhere all at once, though we would like to build a wall of battleships between us and Artania and the war mongers in Majatra. It's not possible, so we have opted instead a different strategy which involves a more guerrilla mindset to defense.

I only make this exposition to note that it would, I would think, in theory be fairly easy to integrate at least Kalistani and Lodamese systems. We, you might say, developed them in tandem and have had a long and very positive security cooperation in Seleya. Our standards are the same, so we are quite literally speaking the same technical language and can and do, easily communicate across our border. With Kalistan comes Gaduridos, whose security has been managed by Kalistan for about 150 years. Valruzia could theoretically integrate into this system, because the infrastructure for sharing exists.

I think the challenge then would to be on how to integrate Seleya and Keris, who is clearly for more integrated with an Egelian defense intelligence apparatus rather than a Seleyan one. Perhaps it would benefit us all for our Lodamese Colleague to give us all their thoughts on how CISA could be extended to Keris, not necessarily physically (it's not a matter of laying cable- That's easy) but conceptually. This might help to frame our discussion in the realm of the possible going forward.