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The Mordusian Times | Allister Media |

Update on the intervention in Alduria

To the South our boys go! Will we be succesfull?

August 5603 (backdated)

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Randworth - Silence has been the policy of the War cabinet for the last months as the invasion of Alduria began. The idea was to keep operational secrecy and leak as little as possible information to the enemy. Though sources in the defense department leaked some information, the reports have been scarce. Yesterday, we finally gained the first details on the war effort from the Royal Army and the Defense Ministry about the conflict between the allied powers against the fascist terrorist junta that holds Alduria in its grasp.
 
In the data released the Royal Armed forces struck the Aldurian border regions, especially targeting defensive infrastructure, military complexes and strategic non-civilian targets with artillery shelling and bombing and air raids by the Royal Airforce. There attacks were met with little resistance and brought forth relatively good results, which according to the documents was unexpected and bolstered thoughts of strategic success and relatively easy winnings. This resulted in a hastened attack across the entire border with a combination of mechanised assaults supported by infantry movements.
 
At first the border region in Nouvelle Orange were easily captured, with Aldurian forces loyal to government being caught by Aldurians who side with the Royal Army or by Junta forces retreating towards more defensible positions. Though more losses came back than expected on our side, the military analysts point out that the lack of military engagements over the years and the only in the recent decades upgraded military cannot be expected to fight without making errors and learning on the move. Which is showable from the data that was brought back.
 
In the next weeks the military quickly began to advance taking large parts of territory at once, only finding itself halted and unable to break through thanks to a combination of stiff resistance, logistical and tactical errors made by the army. This included communication errors, wrong information usage by ground forces and overconfidence. Aldurian forces managed to attack key infrastructure and hinder Mordusian forces to invade successfully further into the nation, causing quite the number of casualties. The defense ministry has said that these were valuable lessons and that it will do everything to learn better from it. General Blake Smith said that ‘we have learned much of our foes these last few weeks and were still sure of a swift victory’.

However sources from within the war ministry are less optimistic, as already signs are showing the advance is halting. This is ever more clear in the Vallee region where the Junta forces are most loyal to the government. There they even managed to strike back into Mordusian territory. Though this is now ever more difficult for them as territory is with much pain and effort wrestled out of their control, its likely this front will not move forward too much. It remains to be seen which view will be correct. For now we can only support our brave boys fighting to end this fascist junta's reign of terror. 


The current situation:
- Orange = Mordusian occupation
- Fire = heavy battles or air/artillery strikes