The Invasion of Britain: A Retrospective

Day 824, 19:41 • Published in USA USA • by Desertfalcon

TLDR version: It took Americans and EDEN three weeks to realize the British Invasion wasn't necessary and now both sides can focus on more important things.

A couple of days ago it was announced that EDEN would be pulling out of the U.K. and that the war would be considered a draw. This came after the British managed to hold onto London by a sizable margin. To me it was amazing how far the attitude of Americans changed during this war, at first everyone was begging to attack so we could "eff up the U.K." , then a couple weeks later after winning a couple regions, we want out. Now I completely understand the rational for pulling out as it was costing us a great deal of gold, however there are a things I want to say before this war becomes just another memory.

The war with the U.K. was mostly a revenge war as most ex-Atlantis nations had a bone to pick with the U.K. for going over to the "evil" side. We knew going in that the U.K. had no significant borders or high resources other than grain, but EDEN decided to invade anyway. This is why the JCS was opposed to the invasion from the get go, and in Josh Frost's latest article he questioned why we even invaded without the support of the JCS. Now even though the JCS of staff and several people knew beforehand the war would be pointless the pressure for Jewitt to invade the U.K. was unbelievable. Between the constant shouting of politicians back home to get revenge on the U.K. and from our allies asking the U.S. to join the siege and help start a real invasion it's no wonder Jewitt eventually caved to the pressure, even without seeking reelection. Really it was pressure from the public and EDEN high command that led to this war. The economy could of been another factor as well.

I won't go too much into the history of the battles but too make a long story short the U.K. won the vast majority of the battles. The only reason the U.K. lost most of their regions was due to the fact that they retreated quite a few regions in an attempt to reduce the amount of fronts EDEN could open against them. Following a stagnation in the offensive and the huge loss in the battle of London, it became clear that a divided EDEN wouldn't be able to beat a unified PHX (which was pretty much the same lesson we learned during Operation French Toast). After this it didn't take long for a peace treaty to be signed and the war declared a draw.

Even though the war was officially called a draw it can be argued that the U.K. was the winner. During the Siege of Britain, EDEN spent a large amount of gold to keep the U.K. blocked and once the real invasion began EDEN had to keep forking over the gold to attack the regions it would later retreat. It's hard to tell which side spent more on tanking but in the end the U.K. was able to force EDEN to burn quite a bit of gold. Also seeing as the U.K. managed to hold onto all of their original regions except for Northern Ireland, that can also be considered a victory for the British. Still the British did lose their Belgian regions and the Irish might not relinquish control of Northern Ireland anytime so calling it a draw seems about right.

Anyways these are just my useless ramblings, take what you will out of them but I just thought I'd get an article out on the subject since its been awhile since I'd last written and this was a pretty hot topic.

Edit: Thank god I copied this two seconds before I published this because erep wanted to eat my article again. I really need to get a better word processor then notepad on this comp.