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**The Economist**


Leaders ~ Editorial

Due to time constraints and so on I’m going to be publishing short article regularly, rather than the marathon articles of the past. So much is happening so quickly I simply don’t have time to stay involved and categorise what I am involved in. So I’m going to shift style slightly, I hope you understand and prefer short articles to no articles, which is the alternative sadly.

So what’s going on at the minute. Well ‘a lot’ is the short answer. EDEN and their allies in the USA are keeping up the pressure on PEACE, whilst at the same time the damage internally of recent weeks is still being felt in the last super-alliance. Like an ancient dinosaur, PEACE still stands amongst its younger brothers, SOL, ALA and of course EDEN and the Brolliance.

But where from here? There is still of course no official word. We can look at ATLANTIS and see from that what can happen when an alliance faces renewal. For (with one noticeable exception) ATLANTIS still exists intact. Will France and EDEN occupy similar positions with regards to PEACE that the UK holds with EDEN/USA? Only time will tell.




Britain ~ The collapse of the UKRP

For months the UKRP has been on the downslide- if not in members then in activity and political strength. The last clear victory from the party was the second election of JerryGFL in March. Since then the party has seemed very much dead as electoral campaigns became more sophisticated. The election of MAV, a very young player, and the creation of the FDP, who stole many of the parties top members, seemed to be the final straw.

However today we see the almost certain election of Winston Churchill (the in game character, not the dead war hero) as Party President. Winston is known to hold views hostile to Islam in the UK, in a way that is reminiscent of the British Patriot president Billy Bright. These views are held as being abhorrent by most eUKers, and the election of Winston is likely to see remaining party members flee to safer havens.

What this means electorally is yet to be seen. The PCP-TUP alliance has been ascendant for the last two months, both in congress and in the Presidential elections. A combined UKRP-RFA-FDP-BEP alliance failed to change that, and the weakening and division of the UKRP and its vast (nearly 500) membership base may cut the remaining win from the alliance, suggesting that should PCP and TUP unite again their candidates will have an almost unsurpassable advantage. Saying that, nothing is impossible in politics, and the UKRP once looked down from an electoral Olympus and now they are dead in the water. So an interesting future for British party politics.




Europe ~ Hungary loves Poland

Not really. Those of you who are interested may have noticed the almost continuous wars in Slovakia between Hungary and Poland. Hungary conquered the regions not too long ago, and since then the two countries have been stuck in deadlock fighting to either hold or release the Slovak regions. The sad truth of it is that beneath the propaganda the regions aren’t worth much and are mostly a matter of prestige for the two alliances. Will Hungary or Poland prevail in the end? Likely it will be Poland. The attacker is always at the advantage in eRep, because the defender has to win every battle, whereas the attacker only has to win one per region to gain control. So long as the attacks are continuous the defending country has no choice but to field units.

The effect this has on the greater PEACE bloc is difficult to tell, but it is sure that many national armies remain deployed in Hungary in case of an EDEN push in Slovakia or (less likely but still feasible) Heilongjiang. The effect of this is to reduce the numbers of mobile troops available to fight elsewhere. Although elite soldiers often move daily, the all important middle-rank mobile troops are tied up. A strong offensive against a medium PEACE country such as the UK combined with an assault on a non-original Hungarian region could result in victories for our enemies. The stability of the entire alliance relies on us closing weak points in our defences like Slovakia, not opening new ones.




A few conclusions for today

Just to sum up this brief article (holy ... under 1000 words!) I’d like to remind people of an axiom written by famous military strategist Karl von Clauswitz:

“"The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point.”

In other words, don’t fritter away power across a broad series of battles, but concentrate it all in one place. Whoever has the strongest mobile army will win the day. Both the UK and PEACE have to bear this in mind.

In addition there is a lesson here for our young politicians. Many have called for the UK to invade the USA. We are a small island nation, surrounded on all sides (save the United Netherlands) by nations who are at best ambivalent towards us and at worst openly hostile. Of these nations the USA is the strongest and most riled by our actions. Attacking them wouldn’t be unwise, it would be total folly. If they choose to attack us it is another matter. But the whole point of strategy is to attack your enemy where he is weak and you are strong. Assaulting the USA gives them all of the advantages, and weakens our position immeasurably. Anyone who suggests otherwise puts their own personal entertainment before that of the entire rest of the country, and yes the alliance.

We must seek weaknesses in the enemy. I am not saying there should be no war. Merely that there should be no foolish war.




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