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William of Edenbury - [Military Science Teacher]

Summary: Basics of Strategic Warfare

In today’s Military lesson we will discuss the intricate dance that is Strategic Warfare. For anyone that has looked at the map, the movements of nations at war have likely looked haphazard at best and absolutely chaotic at worst. Once you understand what a nation seeks in a war scenario though, this chaos turns into an intricate dance with a very obvious endgame. In particular, we shall use the current invasion of America to illustrate some points with an easily viewable example.

First, the most basic of basics: In war, you want to maximize the damage you can deal to your opponent and minimize the damage they can deal against you. In this war, the United States was a large threat to Serbia. The Americans have a decently large population so they can deal quite a bit of damage and their homeland shares a border with the Serbian Rubber colony in Southern France. Resource colonies are a prime military objective because they contribute heavily to a country’s ability to produce Food or Weapons (Depending on the bonus). So as you see, taking over American regions and removing their border near the Serbian Colony would go a long way to reducing the damage that could be done against Serbia.

So now the Serbians have decreased the damage that could have been done to them, next is maximizing the damage they can do. Here there are two paths that can be taken. A one-on-one war, or a multiple front war. The advantage of a one-on-one war is that a nation can concentrate all its damage (including damage done through its alliances) into a single warzone. The disadvantage is that it can take a long time to take over a large country, and the occupying country is vulnerable to multiple resistance wars starting up in its conquered territories. As for a multiple front war, the advantages are just the opposite, occupying nations are better able to concentrate on fewer Resistance wars in their occupied territories, and are able to perform some advanced strategic maneuvers (we will discuss the advanced maneuvers in a later lesson). The disadvantage is that it becomes more difficult to coordinate an alliance’s damage on the battles that need it. In the case of the invasion of America, The United States is a large country in an alliance that cannot deal as much damage as the invading alliance. This meant that a multiple front war was the best choice to keep down Resistance Wars, while the invaders did not have to worry as much about being out damaged if they did not coordinate effectively.

So is that it?

Not quite. There was still more to do in order to maximize TWO alliance damage (Invaders) and minimize American damage. We had briefly touched on how Resource bonuses are a prime military target, because of their effect on food and weapons production. In order to deny a nation the bonuses to production provided by resources you do not have to take over the actual territory that contains the resource however. You simply have to cut off the supply route to that territory (this was not always the case though, so you may occasionally hear about old wars that defied this rule). A supply route is an unbroken chain of territories that go from a country’s capital to the territory with the resource that they want. For a good example of a supply route, please look at the map and you can follow serbia’s line of territories through the Balkans, southern Italy, and Southern france. Ok, so now we know what a supply line is and what is needed for a country to get bonus resources. So now, its a simple matter of figuring out how to completely cut off a country’s resource bonuses. Just surround the capital. Its as easy as that. Well not really... you have to conquer quite a few territories and make sure they don't get taken back... But once the noose is in place, a country’s resource bonuses are quite effectively cut off. This is also the reason why nations avoid conquering the Capital Region of an enemy. The capital would then be relocated and they would have to cut it off all over again.

Well students, that is all for today’s lesson. Please remember to ask any questions you might have, be they from this lesson or any completely unrelated facet of war.


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