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CLAIRON PICARD
 
ALDURIA WAR REPORT; ALDURIANS VOLUNTEERING TO HELP

Defense Ministry, January13, 5604:   CLAIRON PICARD sources in the Defense Ministry report that Defense Minister Marcel Augereau briefed reporters on the status of our conflict with the terrorist regime that overthrew the elected Socialist Government of Alduria.
 
Much of the La Vallee region of Alduria has fallen to the Alduria Expeditionary Force (AEF) under the command of General Marc-Paul Montague. The AEF  moved westward from Numineux Province into La Vallee and in the north its 1st Corps is holding a position about 80 miles east of  the Capital from the Aldurian northern border to about 80 miles south of the capital. There has been some organized terrorist resistance but they have largely fallen back on defensive positions between the AEF and the capital.

The 2nd AEF Corps has secured the rest of La Vallee and some of the next region and is now holding La Vallee south of the capital having similarly encountered some organized resistance which retreated toward defensive positions.
 
In the liberated area three things are going on. The Provisional Support Corps is supplying food, water shelter, and medical help to those displaced Aldurians in need of them.  Second, the Provisional Support Corps is working with local leaders to restore local government and normal life to the extent possible in the areas no longer threatened by  terrorist rule
 
Third, many Aldurians have come forward wanting to take up arms against their terrorist oppressors.  Although some thought was given to inducting these volunteers into the National Army, instead they are being formed into an Aldurian Military Contingent after receiving rudimentary instruction from the Provisional Support Corps in infantry weapons handling and participation in infantry units.
 
The Aldurian Military Contingent is being armed with small arms, grenade launchers, shoulder mounted rocketry and portable mortars.  A number of the volunteers have been in the Aldurian military. The plan is for the Aldurian Military Contingent to participate in the move against the Capital in conjunction with 1st Corps which is approaching from the east.
 
The other armored division, and some mechanized and motorized divisions are reporting to General Montague who is organizing the AEF to engage the terrorist forces near the Capital as well as move forces westward to liberate more of Alduria.
 
Unmanned aerial vehicles and rotary craft that are divisional assets are reporting that there are lightly manned defensive positions to the north and west of the Capital where they are not currently facing National Army forces while there are heavily defended enemy entrenchments to the east and south of the Capital which face the AEF’s 1st and 2nd Corps.  Further, to their rear are a second line of entrenchments to which they could fall back.

The defenders appear to be largely terrorist militia but we are not certain whether any actual regular military units have joined them or not.  We are assuming there would be some weaponry available to them from military depots such as howitzers and mortars.
 
Admiral Suchet reports that the National Navy forces including aerial assets can prevent a successful incursion bringing outside relief to the terrorists from abroad via the Aldurian coast.