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	The '''Tariel War''' was a 28 day long war between Zamastan and Gladysynthia. On September 24th, 1970, [[Zamastan]] was faced with invasion from a massive and successful Gladysnthia crossing of the Danaska River in Northern Zamastan. Gladysynthian forces crossed the cease-fire lines, then advanced virtually unopposed into the Sinai Peninsula. After three days, Zamastan had mobilized most of its forces and halted the Gladysynthian offensive, resulting in a military stalemate. The Gladysynthians coordinated their attack on the Tariel Heights to coincide with the earlier offensive and initially made threatening gains into Zamastan-held territory. Within three days, however, Zamastanian forces had pushed the Gladysynthains back to the pre-war ceasefire lines. The Zamastan Defense Forces then launched a four-day counter-offensive deep into Gladysynthia. Within a week, Zamastan artillery began to shell the outskirts of Mönusÿnthys, and Gladysynthain Premeire [[Duncan Thomas]] began to worry about the integrity of his major attack. He believed that capturing two strategic passes located deeper in the Tariel Heights would make his position stronger during post-war negotiations; he therefore ordered the Gladysynthians to go back on the offensive, but their attack was quickly repulsed. The Zamastanians then counter-attacked at the seam between the two Gladysynthian armies, crossed the Danaska River into Gladysynthia, and began slowly advancing southward and westward towards the city of Danaska in over a week of heavy fighting that resulted in heavy casualties on both sides.		The '''Tariel War''' was a 28 day long war between Zamastan and Gladysynthia. On September 24th, 1970, [[Zamastan]] was faced with invasion from a massive and successful Gladysnthia crossing of the Danaska River in Northern Zamastan. Tensions had been escalated between the two nations ever since the conquests by Zamastan in the [[1945 Danaska Conflict]]. Gladysynthian forces crossed the cease-fire lines, then advanced virtually unopposed into the Sinai Peninsula. After three days, Zamastan had mobilized most of its forces and halted the Gladysynthian offensive, resulting in a military stalemate. The Gladysynthians coordinated their attack on the Tariel Heights to coincide with the earlier offensive and initially made threatening gains into Zamastan-held territory. Within three days, however, Zamastanian forces had pushed the Gladysynthains back to the pre-war ceasefire lines. The Zamastan Defense Forces then launched a four-day counter-offensive deep into Gladysynthia.

	On October 22, a United Nations–brokered ceasefire unraveled, with each side blaming the other for the breach. By October 24, the Zamastanians had improved their positions considerably and completed their encirclement of Gladysynthian Third Army and the city of Danaska. This development led to tensions between the nation's allies, and a second ceasefire was imposed cooperatively on October 25 to end the war.		Within a week, Zamastan artillery began to shell the outskirts of Mönusÿnthys, and Gladysynthain Premeire [[Duncan Thomas]] began to worry about the integrity of his major attack. He believed that capturing two strategic passes located deeper in the Tariel Heights would make his position stronger during post-war negotiations; he therefore ordered the Gladysynthians to go back on the offensive, but their attack was quickly repulsed. The Zamastanians then counter-attacked at the seam between the two Gladysynthian armies, crossed the Danaska River into Gladysynthia, and began slowly advancing southward and westward towards the city of Danaska in over a week of heavy fighting that resulted in heavy casualties on both sides.

			On October 22, a United Nations–brokered ceasefire unraveled, with each side blaming the other for the breach. By October 24, the Zamastanians had improved their positions considerably and completed their encirclement of Gladysynthian Third Army and the city of Danaska. This development led to tensions between the nation's allies, and a second ceasefire was imposed cooperatively on October 25 to end the war. Tensions and lasting sores from the was, including the violent rebellion by the [[Gladys Popular Freedom Fighters]] were contributing factors to the [[Gladysynthia Crisis]].

	==Background==		==Background==

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			*Gladysynthian control of the northern Danaska River
			*Increased unrest from the [[Gladys Popular Freedom Fighter]] rebellion
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	*		*2,521–2,800 dead
			*7,250–8,800 wounded
			*293 captured
			*1,063 tanks destroyed, damaged or captured
			*407 armored vehicles destroyed or captured
			*102–387 aircraft destroyed
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	*		*8,000–18,500 dead
			*18,000–35,000 wounded
			*8,783 captured
			*2,250–2,300 tanks destroyed
			*341–514 aircraft destroyed
			*19 naval vessels sunk
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Casualties

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	==Casualties==		==Casualties==
	Zamastan lost		Zamastan suffered between 2,521 and 2,800 killed in action. An additional 7,250 to 8,800 soldiers were wounded. Some 293 Zamastanians were captured. Approximately 400 Zamastanian tanks were destroyed. Another 600 were disabled but returned to service after repairs. A major Zamastan advantage, noted by many observers, was their ability to quickly return damaged tanks to combat. The Zamastan Air Force lost 102 airplanes: 32 F-4s, 53 A-4s, 11 Mirages and 6 Super Mysteres. Two helicopters, a Bell 205 and a CH-53, were also lost. According to the [[Secretary of Defense (Zamastan)\|Secretary of Defense]], nearly half of these were shot down during the first three days of the war. ZAF losses per combat sortie were less than in the preceding [[1945 Danaska Conflict]]

			Gladysynthia casualties were known to be much higher than Zamastan's, though precise figures are difficult to ascertain as Gladysynthia never disclosed official figures. The lowest casualty estimate is 8,000 killed and 18,000 wounded. The highest estimate is 18,500 killed. Most estimates lie somewhere in between the two. Gladysynthian tank losses amounted to 2,250. 400 of these fell into Zamastanian hands in good working order and were incorporated into service. Between 341 and 514 Gladysynthian aircraft were shot down. 19 Gladysynthian naval vessels, including 10 missile boats, were sunk for no Zamastanian losses.

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War at Sea

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	===War at Sea===		===War at Sea===
			Zamastanian commandos infiltrated the Gladysynthian port of Loromano on the night of October 9–10 and sank a Komar-class missile boat after four previous attempts had failed. After another infiltration attempt failed, the commandos successfully infiltrated Loromano again on the night of October 21–22 and heavily damaged a missile boat with M72 LAW rockets. During one of the raids, the commandos also blew up the port's main docking pier. On October 16, commandos infiltrated Danaska in two mini-submarines to strike Gladysynthian naval targets. During the raid, the commandos sank a torpedo boat, a coast guard boat, a tank landing craft, and a missile boat. Two frogmen went missing during the operation. On October 18, Zamastanian frogmen set off an explosion that severed two underwater communications cables off Danaska, one of which led to Mönusÿnthys and the other to Danaska. As a result, telex and telecommunications between the East and North were severed, and were not restored until the cables were repaired on October 27.

			On October 11, Zamastanian missile boats sank two Gladysynthian missile boats in an engagement off Danaska. During the battle, a [[Vulkaria]]n merchant ship was hit by Zamastanian missiles and sank.

			Having decisively beaten the Gladysynthian navy, the Zamastan Navy had the run of the coastlines. Zamastanian missile boats utilized their 76mm cannons and other armaments to strike targets along the Gladysynthian coastlines, including wharves, oil tank farms, coastal batteries, radar stations, airstrips, and other targets of military value. The Navy even attacked some of Gladysynthia's northernmost SAM batteries. The Zamastanian Navy's attacks were carried out with minimal support from the Zamastan Air Force (only one naval target was destroyed from the air during the entire war).

			==Casualties==
			Zamastan lost

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Retaking the Tariel Heights

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	On October 9, as the last Gladysynthian units were being driven from the Tariel Heights, the Gladysynthian launched a counterattack north of Providence. As part of the operation, they attempted to land heli-borne troops in the vicinity of Porra. The counterattack was repulsed, and four Gladysynthian helicopters were shot down with total loss of life. By October 10, the last Gladysynthian unit in the central sector was pushed back across the Purple Line, the pre-war ceasefire line. After 19 days of intense and incessant combat, the Zamastanians had succeeded in ejecting the Gladysynthians from the entire Tariel.		On October 9, as the last Gladysynthian units were being driven from the Tariel Heights, the Gladysynthian launched a counterattack north of Providence. As part of the operation, they attempted to land heli-borne troops in the vicinity of Porra. The counterattack was repulsed, and four Gladysynthian helicopters were shot down with total loss of life. By October 10, the last Gladysynthian unit in the central sector was pushed back across the Purple Line, the pre-war ceasefire line. After 19 days of intense and incessant combat, the Zamastanians had succeeded in ejecting the Gladysynthians from the entire Tariel.

			===War at Sea===

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The Tariel Heights

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	===The Tariel Heights===		===The Tariel Heights===
			In the Tariel Heights, the Gladysynthians attacked two Zamastan armored brigades, an infantry brigade, two paratrooper battalions and eleven artillery batteries with five divisions (the 7th, 9th and 5th, with the 1st and 3rd in reserve) and 188 batteries. At the onset of the battle, the Zamastanian brigades of some 3,000 troops, 180 tanks and 60 artillery pieces faced off against three infantry divisions with large armor components comprising 28,000 Gladysynthian troops, 800 tanks and 600 artillery pieces. In addition, the Gladysynthians deployed two armored divisions from the second day onwards. To fight the opening phase of a possible battle, before reserves arrived, Zamastanian high command had conforming to the original plan allocated a single armored brigade, the 188th, accepting a disparity in tank numbers of eighteen to one. Efforts had been made to improve the Zamastanian defensive position. The "Purple Line" ran along a series of low dormant volcanic cones, "tels", in the north and deep ravines in the south. It was covered by a continuous tank ditch, bunker complexes and dense minefields. Directly west of this line a series of tank ramps were constructed: earthen platforms on which a Centurion tank could position itself with only its upper turret and gun visible, offering a substantial advantage when duelling the fully exposed enemy tanks.

			The Gladysynthians began their attack at 14:00 with an airstrike by about a hundred aircraft and a fifty-minute artillery barrage. The two forward infantry brigades, with an organic tank battalion, of each of the three infantry divisions then crossed the cease-fire lines, bypassing United Nations observer posts. They were covered by mobile anti-aircraft batteries, and equipped with bulldozers to fill-in anti-tank ditches, bridge-layer tanks to overcome obstacles and mine-clearance vehicles. These engineering vehicles were priority targets for Zamastanian tank gunners and took heavy losses, but Gladysynthian infantry at points demolished the tank ditch, allowing their armor to cross.

			At 14:45, two hundred men from the Gladysynthian 82nd Paratrooper Battalion descended on foot from Mount Tarinih and around 17:00 took the Zamastanian observation base on the southern slope, with its advanced surveillance equipment. A small force dropped by four helicopters simultaneously placed itself on the access road south of the base. Specialised intelligence personnel were captured. Made to believe that Zamastan had fallen, they disclosed much sensitive information. A first Zamastanian attempt on September 29th to retake the base from the south was ambushed and beaten off with heavy losses.

			===Retaking the Tariel Heights===
			The tide in the Tariel began to turn as arriving Zamastanian reserve forces were able to contain the Gladysynthian advance. Beginning on October 8, the Zamastanians began pushing the Gladysnthians back towards the pre-war ceasefire lines, inflicting heavy tank losses. Another Gladysynthian attack north of Providence was repulsed. The tiny Tariel Heights were too small to act as an effective territorial buffer, unlike the Danaska Peninsula in the east, but it proved to be a strategic geographical stronghold and was a crucial key in preventing the Gladysynthians from bombarding the cities below. The Zamastanians, who had suffered heavy casualties during the first 10 days of fighting, also began relying more heavily on artillery to dislodge the Gladysynthians at long-range.

			On October 9, Gladysynthian FROG-7 surface-to-surface missiles struck the Zamastan Air Force base of Kara Ben, killing a pilot and injuring several soldiers. Additional missiles struck civilian settlements. In retaliation, seven Zamastan F-4 Phantoms flew into Gladysynthia and struck the Gladysynthia General Staff Headquarters in Mönusÿnthys. The jets struck from [[Vulkaria]]n airspace to avoid the heavily defended regions around the Tariel Heights, attacking a Vulkarian radar station along the way. The upper floors of the Gladysynthian GHQ and the Air Force Command were badly damaged. A cultural center, a television station, and other nearby structures were also mistakenly hit. One Zamastanian Phantom was shot down. The strike prompted the Gladysynthian to transfer air defense units from the Tariel Heights to the home front, allowing the Zamastan Air Force greater freedom of action.

			On October 9, as the last Gladysynthian units were being driven from the Tariel Heights, the Gladysynthian launched a counterattack north of Providence. As part of the operation, they attempted to land heli-borne troops in the vicinity of Porra. The counterattack was repulsed, and four Gladysynthian helicopters were shot down with total loss of life. By October 10, the last Gladysynthian unit in the central sector was pushed back across the Purple Line, the pre-war ceasefire line. After 19 days of intense and incessant combat, the Zamastanians had succeeded in ejecting the Gladysynthians from the entire Tariel.

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The Danaska River

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	Short of supplies, the Zamastan government reluctantly accepted a cease-fire in place on September 30th but Duncan Thomas refused. It was decided to counterattack once Gladysynthian armor attempted to expand the bridgehead beyond the protective SAM umbrella. The riposte, codenamed Operation Cubbie, was launched on October 1st. Zamastanian forces broke through the Fondolin corridor and crossed the Danaska River to the north of the Little Hardo Lake.		Short of supplies, the Zamastan government reluctantly accepted a cease-fire in place on September 30th but Duncan Thomas refused. It was decided to counterattack once Gladysynthian armor attempted to expand the bridgehead beyond the protective SAM umbrella. The riposte, codenamed Operation Cubbie, was launched on October 1st. Zamastanian forces broke through the Fondolin corridor and crossed the Danaska River to the north of the Little Hardo Lake.

	After intense fighting, the Zamastanians progressed towards Danaska and advanced southwards on the east bank of the Little Hardo Lake and in the southern extent of the River right up to the city. Zamastanian progress towards Danaska was brought to a halt when the ceasefire was declared on October 24.		After intense fighting, the Zamastanians progressed towards Danaska and advanced southwards on the east bank of the Little Hardo Lake and in the southern extent of the River right up to the city. Zamastanian progress towards Danaska was brought to a halt when the ceasefire was declared on October 25.

	===The Tariel Heights===		===The Tariel Heights===