The war is lost—in more than one way.

Day 1,246, 01:33 • Published in Switzerland Switzerland • by HuCard
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It is over. Switzerland has vanished from the map, the war is lost. It would not have winnable against the overwhelming might of Slovenia with its 11 allies anyway.

But at least we put up quite a fight, didn’t we? No, we did not. From what I have seen, this entire war was a single disaster from its very onset.

It would be easy to excuse the questionable choice of allies with the argument that nobody could have predicted that, of all countries, Poland’s ally would invade us so soon, but this would disregard the fundamental flaws on which the signing of the pact with Poland had reste😛 ePoland’s lack of morals, a complete ignorance in regards to the relations to our natural neighbours, the broad spectrum of superior alternatives, and so on; but I have already devoted my last article to this topic.
Thus, the only thing left to be mentioned here would be that Poland now demands 10,000 PLN from us to pay for their ally assaulting us, their betrayal of Switzerland, and their ensuing attack on our other ally Canada. It would only be just to demand reparations from them instead. What do they want to threaten us with, anyway? With an invasion of our country? Their Slovenian friends already took care of that!

But especially during the war the only thing we did reasonably well at was goodwill. Although—as mentioned before—resistance was futile, it would only have been honourable to make it a most costly victory for Slovenia and to demonstrate to the world that we only failed in the face of overwhelming odds. However, the Swiss handling of the war was marred by a complete lack of leadership—orders were, if at all, only issued sporadically, ineffectively, and with a lot of delay; there was not even a hint of organisation; neither the people nor the various military units were coordinated in any way.

The only group which managed to stand was the Sons of Anarchy. Alas, this was not only thanks to their organisation and firepower, but also to the complete wastage of both virtues: While the battle for the italian-speaking cantons was still being “fought” and our country was still extant, the Sons of Anarchy rose up in Graubunden and sunk heaps of GOLD and millions of damage in a battle which was doomed anyway as nobody had been informed of it beforehand and they were thus mostly their own; but which would have been in vain either way even if it had been won, as Slovenia had us still set as their Natural Enemy and the region would have instantly been attacked and reoccupied again.

I won’t blame them, however. As said above, our country was lacking in leadership, in controlled distribution of arms, in planning, and in pretty much everything—there was hardly any way the Sons of Anarchy could have better coordinated their operation. Therefore I propose the following to be more prepared for the next attack:

• The establishment of a supreme army command with its own subforum and IRC channel to debate the course of the war, to plan ahead, and to include the leaders of the various Swiss militias in order for them to be able to contact their units immediately.

• The concentration of the entire Swiss population in military units for a speedier relaying of orders and for a simplified organisation as well as distribution of weapons and food.

• The improvement of our communications by means of the creation of an IRC channel for matters of war, a much more efficient information policy (e.g. a message in the morning of a day to wait for further orders, and later an announcement stating which battles are to be participated in roughly half an hour in advance.)

For the duration of the Slovene occupation I further discourage anyone from initiating a futile resistance war without preceding counsel or common sense, lest it ends up like the Sons of Anarchy’s noble but misguided efforts. There already exist plans for an orderly and thoroughly contemplated liberation of Switzerland, and sooner or later we will achieve this goal.

Lastly, I would like to express my most upright gratitude to our Canadian allies. In our most difficult hour they fought with us, and they even elevated the battles for our territory to their Campaign of the Day a couple of times—while at the same time battles were raging in Greece, Spain, and elsewhere! For this, I offer you a heartfelt ~hyuu~. Until there are further developments, I have decided to stay in Canada to help defend the nation against possible further attacks by Poland—they would do the same for us, as they have sufficiently proven.