Editing Forward Operations Doctrine (Laeral) (section)

==1957 Initiation==
[[File:NPFtroops.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Laeralian-backed Narbonne Partisan Front troops in High Fells, 1960.]]
Following his return to power as [[Prime Minister of Laeral|prime minister]] in 1954, Sun and his government, including [[René Gramont]] as foreign minister and the canny Aristide Leclerq as Director of the Bureau of Foreign Intelligence, became concerned by the increasingly assertive position of the Imperialist states ([[Darya]] and [[Xiomera]] in particular) on foreign policy, as well as ongoing hostilities on the northern border with [[Park Yeong-gi]]'s [[High Fells]]. On February 20th, 1957, a meeting of the Cabinet Council on Defense Affairs (now the National Security Council) adopted the Forward Operations Doctrine, naming three groups as the initial recipients of covert aid through the BFI: the Socialist Revolutionary Army in [[Slokais Islands]], the Narbonne Partisan Front in [[High Fells]], and the [[Free Andhrapuri Forces]] in [[Andhrapur]]. All three groups were judged as sufficiently ideologically-aligned and trustworthy to act as proxies. 

The implementation of the Forward Operations Doctrine produced mixed results. All three groups received communications equipment and trainers from the BFI immediately, while arms transfers began over the course of the next year. The Socialist Revolutionary Army proved effective and ideologically capable, but was driven underground by a government crackdown in 1959 that shattered the organization; its forces would later unify with the [[Federation Army of Slokais]]. The Narbonne Partisan Front, although sharing affinities to Laeral due to French linguistic ties, was too ideologically incoherent for the liking of its patrons in Laeralsford, and the BFI liaison recommended support be withdrawn by 1959. Armed support was only withdrawn, however, in 1961 due to the eruption of the [[Great War]], by which time weapons provided to the Front had been found in the hands of Fellsian-backed [[Liennese Patriotic Front]] insurgents in the [[Liennese Conflict]]. 

Another early recipient of BFI support through the Forward Operations Doctrine was the ''Esercito di Liberazione Popolare'' in [[Mansilla]], an armed partisan group opposing [[Luca Brunelli]]'s fascist regime. Bringing themselves to Laeralian attention due to their high-profile attacks on regime targets, the ELP was the recipient of BFI arms transfers (facilitated through a shell company in [[Brunelli|Cerano]]) beginning in 1958, culminating in their much-celebrated successful assassination of Brunelli himself in 1960. The intense government crackdown on partisan activity following Brunelli's assassination, as well as the outbreak of hostilities elsewhere with the start of the Great War, led to Laeralian support for the ELP being wound down by 1962.

During the [[Great War]] itself, the role of supporting resistance movements abroad was transferred to the Office of Strategic Operations within Inter-Services Intelligence, but these missions built upon the lessons learned from Forward Operations doctrine operations.