Battle of the Pacific

Combatants| **Confederacy of Independent Nations*** Imperial Remnant Forces
* Persia
* USA
* New Zealand
* Canogally

 The **Battle of the Pacific** was a conflict in the Libirachi Civil War in which Alex Pandion's Imperial Fraction and the Persian Republic attempted to secure naval superiority in the Pacific Ocean, gaining the ire of the United States of America and putting them in direct combat with the Libirachi Empire, Canogally and New Zealand as the two sides vied for dominance over the waters, in one of the longest battles of the two year war, which would encompass battles such as the Assault on Shanghai and the Blockade of New Zealand in late 2023. As the strategic ocean between Asia, the Americas and Oceania, the Pacific Ocean is one of the most important trade and naval routes in the world and because of it's location on the boarders of the Libirachi Empire, the CIN designated it as an essential target of their war campaign, with the battle taking place between an attack on Libirachi naval vessels on October 20, 2022 and the Persian retreat from the ocean on January 4, 2024.

The battle, or rather a campaign, in the Pacific led to a general restructuring of policy within the region as nations such as Mexico and Canada condemning the attacks, whilst others such as ST Joseph's Devotees and Ducist supporting the assaults as a necessary anti-imperialist measure; subsequently, the United States of America entered the Libirachi Civil War on the side of the Union of Aligned Nations, whilst other nations like the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Dunsteen condemned the actions as pointless warmongering which "risked the security of global trade, with implications for nations worldwide".

Remembered by military historians for the new tactics and strategic relevance of the conflict, the Battle of the Pacific resulted in one of the largest multi-party conflicts in naval history and as a result the United Nations charter was modified in 2025 in order to stipulate that attacks on innocent parties would be seen as an act of war, and that unilateral defence programs were legally allowed to have clauses in which an attack on one member was an act of war against all.

## Battle of the Pacific

### Initial Attack

Beginning with a snap blockade of the Sino-American trade route on October 20, 2022, the Confederate Navy, comprised of Persian and Imperial Remnant vessels, attacked a Imperial Naval Legion flotilla *en-route* to the United States of America, sinking several ships of the fleet and chasing the survivors into Naval Air Station North Island in California, US, where the United States Navy initially attempted to re-route both sets of forces, although following a Persian attack on the USS *Abraham Lincoln* the USN began it's counter-assault and forced the CIN fleet to flee the port on October 22, 2022. Reconsolidating the losses in the aftermath of the initial skirmish, the Libirachi Empire and the United Sates of America formed a joint defence pact between the two nations, secured in a meeting on November 3, 2022 by a meeting between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Libirachi President Xi Jimping, effectively entering the United States, under the Presidency of Simon Walker, into the Libirachi Civil War on the side of the Union of Aligned Nations.

### Oceanic Assaults

Disheartened by it's failure to hunt down the Libirachi 2nd Naval Legion Fleet in October 2022, the Confederate Navy under the command of Sidaha Odierno began making probing raids into the waters of New Zealand and Canogally on November 17 and November 20, 2022 respectively, attacking cargo and naval vessels bound towards the Libirachi Empire, the United States or any other nation which openly supported the Union of Aligned Nations. Inflicting damage on many shipping lanes, the nations banded together in order to begin hunting down Persian and Imperial Remnant vessels in the region, whilst in the new year the Libirachi Empire and Russian Federation opened up a front with Alex Pandion's Imperial Fraction in order to take down the regime and take out the landing ports from which the Persian navy was striking out at allied forces.

### Blockade of the Pacific Sea Routes

Launching a blockade of selected Pacific sea routes to try to stop UAN aid to the Libirachi Empire in an effort to bring a halt to the Collapse of Moff Pandion's forces, the 2nd Persian Defence Fleet under the command of Admiral Salback began preventing entry to Libirachi waters from August 2023, stopping trade to Beijing and cutting off access for naval vessels to their home ports along the Korean peninsula, setting up for some of the most deadly attacks in the war.