Time to Take Back America: Resistance Wars and the Spanish Model

Day 652, 17:47 • Published in USA USA • by Lieutenant Scheisskopf

The fifth article of the "Take Back America" series suggests that the eUSA could retake its territories from eRussia in a similar way as the eSpanish Reconquista, especially since there are some similarities between both FORTIS/EDEN countries' struggles.

So far, the eUSA has been fortunate that our peace with ePortugal made regaining much of the Southeast easier. We have also been very fortunate that eCanada has been such great allies in blocking eRussia as we have pushed eIndonesia back across the country and, hopefully before too long, out of the continent. But the fight with the eRussians will be the longest-drawn of the three.

Spanish Model
eSpain's Reconquista has been heavily driven by resistance wars (RWs) with significant participation from the eSpanish citizenry and some help from eSpain's allies. eSpain went after less populous and less valuable regions to build a base without alarming the eFrench or PEACE too much. When the eSpanish became stronger, they challenged and successfully fought two more RWs to free some of their most important regions in Catalonia and Asturias-- even though the eFrench built dual Q5s in Asturias-- resulting in a more stable economy and a very bright future. Whether the eSpanish choose to liberate the rest of the country through RWs, including the valuable regions of Madrid and Andalucia, will be determined soon.

Two of the three reasons this model has been successful for the eSpanish are two of the reasons eUSA RWs have largely failed. The first reason is the massive eUSA diaspora to other allied states (I admit to being in eGreece, but that is under military orders). Because RWs are only fought between the occupier state and the Resistance Force, the hundreds, possibly thousands of eUSA citizens living abroad have been unable to take part in the resistance. When you consider that people caring enough to move are generally pretty active players, the eUSA capacity for resistance falls.

The second reason is related to the first. Many eSpanish citizens, after being trapped in eFrance, moved to eFrench Q5 hospital provinces (or just stayed in Asturias, although that was not the best idea since that would raise the region's defense for eFrance) and fought for the Resistance Force 5 or more times per day. In weakly contested regions where walls are low, populations are small, and costs of losing are minimal, the eSpanish will for liberation may have outweighed the eFrench desire to hold on. It is also possible that the eSpanish deployed their military to eFrance, but I am not privy to that information and can't confirm. Rather than fleeing to their "Florida" and making its wall extremely high, being behind enemy lines made it easier to organize an effective and credible resistance.

Finally, when all of eSpain was conquered, the eSpanish lost their MPPs and the MPPs mobilized against them also vanished. This made the odds of combating the eFrench somewhat more favorable were they to choose that course of action later. To my knowledge, though, they have not liberated a region in this more conventional way yet. I do not think that the eUS necessarily needs this to happen.

Can We Do It?
Obviously the answer is yes if that is the course of action chosen by our military commanders and politicians. The eUSA military would need to deploy its forces to eRussia and prepare for an extended deployment in Kaliningrad, Moscow and Central Russia, or Urals, where their Q5 hospitals are. eUSA civilians currently stuck in Russian-occupied states should consider moving to these regions and would need secret notification so that the eRussian leadership would not be alerted in advance about an organized resistance. Finally, it should be encouraged for some eUSA civilians in Florida and elsewhere to relocate to eRussia for a short time, as doing so will allow them to fight as well as find steady work and avoid the "trapping" strategy that PEACE is using to target the eUSA economy, according to eHungarian press.

Similar to what the eSpanish did, the eUSA RW campaign may want to consider liberating low-cost regions such as Nebraska, Idaho, and Wyoming first. Alternatively, the eUSA could try to go for the larger prizes such as Oklahoma and Illinois' oil, New York and New Jersey's large populations, or grain sources in the Great Plains states-- but the eUSA must play to win these regions and fortify them quickly with hospitals and possibly defense systems to bring in more eUSA citizens and prevent reconquest by eRussia. Perhaps successes from one of these scenarios would be the opening to a successful eUSA Reconquista over the eRussians.

God Bless America,

Lt. Scheisskopf