Pelinese Civil War (Pacifica)

Pelinese Civil War
Date 7 July 1979 – 4 October 1982 (1979-07-07 – 1982-10-04) (3 years and 89 days) Location Pelinai/Belogora Result White victory Socialist Republic of Belogora dismantled and replaced by Pelinese Provisional Government Pelinese monarchy restored Livanan territories in continental Bailtem and Zholtiya annexed by Pelinai
Participants
Whites & allied forces: Pelinese Provisional Government Pelinese Volunteer Legion Weisserstein (1980-1982) Stoinia Sallodesia Frost Empire	Reds & allied forces: Socialist Republic of Belogora	Other: Livana (1980)
Commanders and leaders
Main Pelinese & allied leaders: Prince Isukandar IV Field Marshal Aleksei Strelovic Admiral Haru Tanaka  ??? Major Fritz Koehne Lieutenant General Alfred von Lettow-Ermhau  ???  ???	Main Belogoran & allied leaders:  ???  ???	Other leaders: President Amber Lyson
Casualties and losses
Military dead: ~1,400,000 Civilian dead: Over 1,890,000 Total dead: Over 3,290,000 (1979-1983)	Military dead: ~1,580,000 Civilian dead: Over 2,140,000 Total dead: Over 3,720,000 (1979-1982)	Military dead: ~160 Civilian dead: ~200 Total dead: ~360 (1980)

The Pelinese Civil War, alternatively referred to as the War of Pelinese Restoration inside Pelinai, was a civil war fought in Pelinai between 1979 and 1982 by two factions commonly referred to as the Whites and the Reds. The Pelinese Whites were a mixed coalition of revolting military units and civilian militias supporting conservative, anti-secularist, traditionalist, monarchist, and Christian democratic ideologies, such as the Army of Pelinese Restoration, the National Defense Brigade, and the Belogoran Democratic Front, united under the central leadership of the Pelinese Provisional Government. The Reds were a communist faction composed primarily of the incumbent government, the Socialist Republic of Belogora, and loyalist elements of the Belogoran people's Army.

The Pelinese Civil War is one of the deadliest internal conflicts in Pacifican history, with over 7.0 million confirmed deaths of combatants and civilians. The conflict is notable abroad for its status as the first conflict to employ modern chemical warfare agents & tactics, as well as for the extensive atrocities and large-scale conventional warfare operations that occurred during its progression.

Background

Spring of Tears

Main article: Spring of Tears (Pacifica)

Combatants

Pelinese

Pelinese Provisional Government

Main article: Pelinese Provisional Government (Pacifica)

Foreign involvement

Support for the Whites

Non-state support

See also: Pelinese Volunteer Legion (Pacifica)

Course of the war

1980 - stagnation and BPA offensives

Battle of Korolyeviya

Main article: Battle of Korolyeviya (Pacifica)

1982 - Red defeat

Siege of Letograd

Main article: Battle of Letograd (Pacifica)

Death toll

Estimates for the total number of deaths directly related to the Pelinese Civil War itself (combat deaths, massacres of civilians and/or prisoners of war, unintentional or negligent collateral killing of civilians, and war-precipitated starvation) range from approximately 5.9 million to 8.7 million depending on the methodology used, with the most commonly cited figure being 7.0 million. Poor quality of contemporary records, destruction of identifiable human remains by explosives or acid, and large population movements through refugees and military forces all serve to obstruct accurate counts, and casualty estimates have been revised upwards repeatedly after new discovery of mass graves or other mass casualty sites. The question of whether to include wartime death tolls incurred by the continuation of pre-war events, such as the Spring of Tears, is also widely debated.

Consequences

International consequences

Chemical warfare

The widespread use of advanced chemical agents such as VX during the Pelinese Civil War provided the first real-world case study of chemical warfare as conducted with modern equipment on a modern battlefield. Lessons learned from the strengths and challenges of various chemical attack and defense methods employed by the warring sides were incorporated into later Pelinese systems, which would gain a reputation as some of the most effective CBRN defense equipment in the world during and after the Cold War. The training, tactics, and procedures for chemical warfare developed by Pelinese and Belogoran troops were also refined and widely copied by foreign militaries.