MotF 160: Somebody Once Told Me

[Upvoteanthology]

MotF 160: Somebody Once Told Me

The Challenge
Make a map of a conflict or war between puppet states in a larger alliance. The entire alliance could also be participating in the war, or it could be the leaders of the alliance forcing their smaller allies to fight the other side. Examples would include essentially everything from WWI, or to include a non-OTL example, maybe a US puppet of Quebec fighting a British puppet of Canada.

The Restrictions
There are no restrictions on when the PoD of your map should be. Fantasy, sci-fi, and future maps are allowed.

If you're not sure whether your idea meets the criteria of this challenge, please feel free to PM me or comment in the main thread. Sometimes it isn't as clear as I intend it to be.

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Entries will end for this round when the voting thread is posted on Sunday, July 16th, 2017.
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Remember to vote on the previous MotF round!​

 

[Al Smith For Real]

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The year is 1985. The United States' puppet Iraq has declared war on Soviet Syria. In late June, Iraq sends millions of men on around one hundred routes, but 3 major ones. These troops have 10 major battles, with one of these forces retreating to cover on a leaving Syrian army. That army left in August, and alone faced 7 battles. Minor routes became largely traveled on, with September 1985 having more people travel on minor routes than majors. Syria had a summit with leaders of Turkey and Saudi Arabia, which just annexed Kuwait and Jordan, to allow Syrian troops on the land and planes in the airspace. In March 1986, the two pushes are made, with the Turkish one having a skirmish in Northern Syria, and then major battles in Iraq, killing thousands of men. The Saudi one was a huge success, having seven battles, all Syrian wins. Three battles were fought on the border, but were disastrous for Iraq. For a final push (not shown on map), Syria sent battleships to attack Iraq from the south. Iraq surrendered 1 week after these attacks, on April 29, 1986.

(This is my first MOTF entry, hope you like it.)​

 

[Isaac Beach]

(How awkward, it appears we're both doing a Middle Eastern map)

The Turko-Kurdish War
1921-1923
Preliminary Operations, March through May

The Turko-Kurdish War is considered the first conflict in the second stage of the historic Great Game, following the defeat of the Entente to the Central Powers and the succeeding Russian Revolution.
Despite achieving victory in the Great War of 1914-1919 astride their German and Bulgarian allies, the Ottoman Empire soon collapsed to infighting, assisted in the case of the Arabs by the defeated British and to a lesser extent the French. The Kurdish Confederation emerged in the north-central Mashriq, with its capital lying in Amed, independent of any Western power. Fearful of reprisals from their former masters to the west the Kurds sought the protection and assistance of the new Russian Republic, enticing them with their vast and newly discovered oil wells. At the same time, with Germany focused on it's Mitteleuropan project and Bulgaria pacifying the Serbs and Greeks, the Ottoman Kingdom of Turkey turned to what had been it's opponent, Great Britain, in reforming it's military, civil service and rail system. Naturally, this lead to a conflict between the Turks and Kurds as clients of the British and Russians, respectively. The match that lit the conflict were the mounting revolts in the western cities of Elazığ and Şanlıurfa, Turkish majority cities that were none too happy with the implementation of Kurdish laws and language. As the conflict mounted so did the associated deaths on both sides, leading to revenge killings in the few remaining Kurdish communities in Turkey, and the Turkish government resolved to intervene.
This map depicts the preliminary operations of the Turkish and Kurdish armies from the months of March through May, 1921, after which the Mashriq proper was drawn into the war and eventually Russia and Britain themselves, though actual combat on the part of the two was minimal, consisting predominantly of naval skirmishes in the Black Sea. Ultimately, Kurdistan won the war in the south but lost the war in the west, annexing Karkuk but losing Elazığ and Şanlıurfa to the Kingdom of Turkey. This would lead to a miniature arms race between Kurdistan and Turkey that was only resolved in a landmark detente in the late 1930s.​

 

[TooManyIdeas]

 

[Milites]

The Second Italian War of Charles VIII



At the Battle of Fornovo, king Charles VIII of France manages to defeat the forces of the Italian League albeit the victory comes at a heavy cost. Leaving his cousin Louis of Orleans behind as duke of Milan, Charles returns to France to regroup and rearm his battered forces in Provence - thus avoiding striking his head on a lintel in Amboise. Meanwhile in Florence, Girolamo Savonarola crushes all domestic political opposition prompting Pope Alexander VI to authorise his son Cesare Borgia to march into Florentine territory and enforce the papal interdict of the messianic friar. Doing so with ease, Borgia is proclaimed duke of Florence by his troops and the Guelph nobles and citizens.

Two years later, Charles returns to Italy to defend his dynasty's right to the throne of Milan, occupying the Duchy of Savoy on his march into the peninsular. This second invasion leads Cesare and Alexander to force the republics of Siena and Lucca into subservience of Borgian Florence in opposition of the French intervention. The Venetian Republic also rallies to the side of anti-French coalition. As Charles marshalls his forces in Milan, Ercole I d'Este, known as The Diamond, duke of Modena and Ferrara marries his son Alfonso to a French princess partly to ingratiate himself with the French behemoth to the North and partly in reaction to the execution of Savonarola by the Florentine authorities. In return for his loyalty Louis of Orleans sweeps down south and aids Ercole in conquering the Duchy of Mantua. Although technically still an independent prince styling himself divus, The Diamond has in effect become a French satrap.

The states of Northern Italy are thus posed for another round of brutal warfare between those subservient to the King of France led by the Duke of Milan, Louis of Orleans, and those under the Papal aegis of Cesare Borgia. However, events are still in flux. The Emperor has not yet responded, the matter of the Neapolitan throne is still disputed and who's to say that Louis of Orleans will continue to do his cousin's bidding?

Full version here:
http://milites-atterdag.deviantart.com/art/MotF-160-The-Second-Italian-War-of-Charles-VIII-692142765
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[Lyly]

The Great Kigala Desert is a vast expanse of sun-parched sands, dunes, and rocky highlands and is easily the largest region in the world of Aven without any significant population to speak of. The Kigala International Territory was established by the World Council in 1954 as an international administration, but since 1977 has been officially under the care of the Community of Southern Materican States (CEDEMS), or the Southern Community, as it is colloquially known to the East. While most of the territory is sparsely populated, the extreme northernmost Koya Region is more hospitable and is home to a few hundred thousand people who share no identity whatsoever to Bourem or the rest of the CEDEMS.

Since the mid 1990s, many in Koya and several non-World Council states in Materica have protested the arrangement, especially the lack of self-government at any level. Sonhray and Asantemain have long been suspected of covertly funding resistance groups in the region, but conflicts have remained isolated skirmishes until 2015. In that year, several guerilla groups coalesced into the Northern Army and now control a significant portion of the Kigala Territory, including practically every community in Koya, which itself represents the majority of the population in Kigala.

Not to take the instability lying down, Bourem and the CEDEMS have taken their international mandate to govern the Kigala Territory as carte blanche. A series of air strikes are the primary means of suppressing resistance so far. Though the far-away region seems to only be growing more firmly obstinate to authority from Bourem and membership in counter-rebel groups has dried up, CEDEMS remains hesitant to commit ground forces without backup from other members of the World Council, resulting in the awkward containment strategy now being pursued. Ultimately, the great expanse of desert that separates the regional powers prevents much in the way of direct confrontation between the forces, but desire for democracy and natural resources guarantees the Kigala War will continue until something gives.

 

[MoralisticCommunist]

4th Confederate War
The War of Confederate Communist Supremacy​

Ever since the start of the Confederate Wars in 1983 with the succession of Texas from the Confederacy the Southeast of North America has been ravaged by constant turmoil. When the communist revolutions started in 1985, various states of the Confederacy started falling to the red tide one by one. And while the wars appeared to be over once an international ceasefire was signed at the London Conference of 1992, in reality the next war was already brewing under the surface.

This war would be a geopolitical one, between puppets of the USSR and puppets of the PRC. Throughout most of the former Confederacy, militias funded by the Soviets formed the majority of the rebel forces, except for those states dominated by the Black Panther Party. The Black Panther Party, lead by Dr. Huey Newton, an African-American who grew up in rural Louisiana, had its own revolutionary doctrine which focused on the establishment of a black nationalist state. While the USSR was fine to let the Black Panthers establish their own states, everything changed in 1997. In that year, when Huey Newton unveiled his second 5-year plan, the world was shocked to read how it included the expulsion of all non-blacks from the four states under his control. Once the population had been purged of "imperialist whites" the states would combine into the United Negro Republic to provide a new homeland for the African-American population of North America.

The USSR, stunned by these racist and anti-white policies immediately cut off all diplomatic ties with the Black Panther states, with the Atlanta Pact following suit shortly afterwards. Having made enemies with the Soviet Union, the Black Panthers turned to the East and began negotiations with the People's Republic of China. In return for exclusive rights to the vast oil supplies located off the coast of the Bayou, Zhang Chunqiao agreed to send medicine, arms, and other manufactured goods to the Black Panther states. This realignment of the states to the Maoist PRC was unacceptable for the USSR, and thus secret preparations for a massive invasion of the Black Panther states began.

In March of 1998 these plans were put into action as the Atlanta Pact launched a surprise attack on all four Black Panther states at once. Shaken by how quickly the Atlanta Pact had prepared an invasion, Huey Newton decided to rush his own plans and announced the creation of the United Negro Republic, hoping to inspire mass revolts of all the African Americans in Atlanta Pact states. However such a revolt never occurred, and with the Soviet aligned states of Venezuela and Brazil sending in "peacekeeping ships" off the coasts of the United Negro Republic Huey Newton's dream looked as though it was to meet an abrupt end. In a last ditch effort, the PRC proposed a motion to the UN Security Council to announce an immediate cessation of hostilities in the former Confederate States, citing the Atlanta Pact invasion as a violation of the London Conference. However this motion was vetoed by the USSR, and the world could do nothing as Arkansawyer tanks rolled down the streets of New Orleans. By April of 1999, all major cities of the United Negro Republic had been captured by Atlanta Pact troops, though large swathes of the countryside remained pockets of rebellion. These guerrilla fighters continued high level attacks on Atlanta Pact forces until December 13th, 1999, when Huey Newton was dragged out of his bunker in the Yazoo river delta.

By the time of Huey Newton's capture over 31,000 people had been killed, with the majority of them being civilians. On Christmas Day a show trial was held to convict Huey Newton of crimes against humanity, and on January 1st, 2000 he was executed by firing squad to symbolize the start of the a new millenia and a new century, a Soviet century.

For the full sized version of the map, check out my DeviantArt.