Kalistani Major History

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reprint from the Dorvish News Service

Dorvish News Service
Dorvish Navy's Lievenian Sea Fleet to conduct Freedom of Navigation through the Ananto Strait
March 4681


Dorvish Kruthia-class Frigate, DMS Lÿndow-Sennhein

Anantonese Ocean - The Dorvish Navy's Lievenian Sea Fleet (Dundorfian: Lievlandseeflotte) underneath the command of Admiral Stefan Katzen has been conducting a number of training exercises in the Anantonese Ocean off the coast of Lourenne. The several year training exercise aimed at coordinating efforts with the Lourennian Naval Forces has been considered a success, but prior to their departure the Dorvish Navy announced that they would conduct a freedom of navigation operation through the Ananto Strait. In the past, Kalistan has claimed the very vast and wide Ananto Strait as their own but following the collapse of the radical, Socialist Party of Kalistan and the collapse of the erratic, often ill-prepared militia system of "defense" the issue has become a none issue. In its return home to mainland Dorvik, the Lievenian Sea Fleet with its flagship the DNS Heike Grossberg will conduct a freedom of navigation act through the wide strait. In a press release issued by the Supreme General Staff the the Chief of the Foreign Defense Office, Major General Franz Karsten von Sondheim noted that the decision was made to make "...all aware..." that the freedom of navigation is paramount to international peace and prosperity. Critics have cited the behavior as "...reckless and dangerous..." while others, including opposition figures in Dorvik have cited the decision as "...typically Dorvish and welcoming of international stability and rule of law." Should the Lievenian Sea Fleet encounter any opposition or if Kalistan should decide to fire upon Dorvish naval vessels, the South Ocean Fleet will be conducting a training exercises with the Ostlandic Navy in the Anantonese Ocean by the time the Lievenian Sea Fleet has begun to transverse the wide berth of the Ananto Strait.[/quote]