Invasion of the United Arab Republic

The **Invasion of the United Arab Republic** was a prolonged invasion of the United Arab Republic in North Africa by the forces of the Bovido Imperium against Arab forces and their Libirachi counterparts, conducted between April 14, 2035 and, during the Conquest of Africa. As one of the defining conflicts of the war, the invasion resulted in the fall of most of Libya state to the Bovido Imperium, before the decimation of the Arab capital of Tunis in November 2035 caused the flailing republic to fall into a death spiral of factionalism.

On April 11, 2036, the United Arab Republic formally surrendered after President Khalifa Haftar fled the nation. Two days later, the Treaty of Beijing would be signed, granting a brief peace to the conflict.

## History

### Invasion of Libya

Following months of strategic victories in the Bovido conquest of North Africa, Imperator Anton Ujung began to demand the complete obliteration of the United Arab Republic in Spring 2035 out of fear that the Libirachi Empire would join in the conflict if the war became prolonged. Consequently, on April 14, 2035 the Bovido Imperium launched it's 3rd Holy Naval Group under the control of Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku to begin a naval assault of the city of Benghazi, with the *Ujung*-*class* aircraft carrier Bounty of the Waves serving as the flagship for the naval group, whilst the 16th Fleet under the command of Captain Istu Yamatora split off from the group to attack and lead a landing at the coastal city of Tripoli. Having launched from the Nile basin, the Naval Group landed on the beaches of Libya State on April 20th, 2035 and immediately began a coastal bombardment of the cities, encountering fierce resistance from Major General Khalifa Haftar, Vice President of the UAR and military head of Libya state, who commanded the XXX Land Corps of the Arab Republic in the defence of the twin regional capitals.

Having landed on the beaches of Benghazi on April 20th, the Maximo Exercitus Imperium (MEI) armed forces of the Bovido Imperium quickly overran the port of Benghazi and much of the seafront face of the city, pushing the local forces back to the Benghazi Way Motorway where the forces of the XXX Corps under the control of Major General Khalifa Haftar transformed the highway into the primary defence force for the Arab Republic.

Meanwhile in Beijing, the government of the Libirachi Empire's Fox Dynasty under the leadership of President Karyn Voor began to ramp up the nation's war drive for deployment into Africa following months of armed forces restructuring which had hampered it's ability to mobilise forces effectively. With the appointment of Sun Jianguo as Grand Admiral and Qi Jianguo as temporary Grand General by the Central Military Commission, the Libirachi Imperial Army began to deploy support to Major General Khalifa Haftar's XXX Corps in Benghazi from May 9th 2035, where Libirachi forces and Bovido soldiers fought in open combat for the first time in over a decade, resulting in Libirachi soldiers managing to keep the line against the Imperium, forcing a no-man's zone across much of the coastal region of the city, resulting in the seaboard assault of Libya being halted and instead forced the Imperium to begin a land invasion from their stronghold in Egypt.

Launching from the Egyptian boarder on May 26th, the 2nd Egyptian Corps under the command of Major General Michael Clod began a steady move through the Saharan desert of Libya state virtually unopposed as the armies of the United Arab Republic began to retreat back to the coastal city strongholds, unwittingly giving the Bovido armies time to prepare for their massive assault on the city of Benghazi. Arriving to the south of the city with three land armies, Major General Clod began a siege of the state capital and the XXX Corps led by Major General Khalifa Haftar, bombarding the city mercilessly from the 3rd Holy Naval Group sitting at the shoreline. Despite this, with Libirachi aid, Haftar's forces were able to maintain a hold over the capital, resulting in a stalemate which would last until November 2035; with the UAR forces held at Benghazi, Clod was able to direct his armed forces to seize control over much of the Libyan state, turning the stronghold of Benghazi into an isolated fortress city in the middle of the Bovido Imperium's North Africa province. Despite being nominally in control of the UAR forces in the capital, Major General Haftar seceded much of the day to day responsibilities after initially securing the safety of the region in June 2035, and instead began to lead forces against the Imperium elsewhere within the United Arab Republic.

### Decimation of Tunis

Following months of strategic victories in the Bovido conquest of North Africa, Imperator Anton Ujung began to demand the complete obliteration of the United Arab Republic in Spring 2035 out of fear that the Libirachi Empire would join in the conflict if the war became prolonged. After the slow failure of the Invasion of Libya and the Libirachi Empire's retalitory invasion of Jerusalem State, Imperator Ujung defied the advice of his ministers and ordered a thermonuclear strike on the Arab capital on November 24th, 2035, marking only the second time a Bovido nuclear strike had been ordered, and the first to be used against an external nation. After being relayed to Major General Torrent Koon, the order was briefly halted by Koon and his military command, before Imperator Ujung summoned Koon to Jerusalem on November 25th and ordered the military to go through with the instruction. At 3pm (5pm GMT), the BH-K43 class submarine *Invincible* launched a thermonuclear fusion missile towards the Arab capital city of Tunis, where UAR President Kais Saied and the UAR congress were holding military funding talks. Detonating above ground at 3:54pm on November 25th, the blast incinerated and decimated much of Tunis, killing President Kais Saied and eradicating the upper echelons of the Arab Republic's leadership in the process, leaving a power vacuum behind in the process. With no civilian government left, Major General Khalifa Haftar assumed powers as President of the United Arab Republic, though with the capital and military headquarters decimated by the attack, only a handful of major cities remained loyal to the regime; on the same day as the attacks, the besieged forces of the XXX Corps in the fortress city of Benghazi surrendered to the Bovido Imperium, ending the 7 month siege of the city, whilst the Libirachi marines deployed there fled into the deserts around the city, engaging in guerrilla warfare against the imperium. Within the Bovido Imperium, despite the success of the mission, many within the upper ranks of the regime began to make moves against Imperator Anton Ujung, viewing the attack as unnecessarily provocative against the Libirachi Empire, especially given the Libirachi military's sweeping marches towards the Bovido capital of Jerusalem, whilst also highlighting the failures and divisions within the Bovido armed forces in the process.

### Fall of the Arab Republic

Following the Invasion of Libya and the Decimation of Tunis in 2035, the United Arab Republic had effectively collapsed entirely after the death of President Kais Saied during the destruction of the Arab capital in November 2035. Under the leadership of the self proclaimed president, Major General Khalifa Haftar, the remnants of the United Arab Republic had gathered in the city of Tripoli on the Mediterranean coast in a final stand against the ongoing Bovido invasion. Under the command of Captain Itsu Yamatora, the Bovido Imperium launched it's final assault on the Arab remnants on March 23, 2036, with forces from all sides bombarding the city. Despite intense resistance from Arab forces, President Khalifa Haftar resigned his office as president on April 10, 2036 and fled the city with the aid of Libirachi commandos rather than face capture by Bovido forces who had surrounded the resistance headquarters in the centre of Tripoli. On April 11th, the vice president Major General Rachid Ammar unconditionally surrendered the city of Tripoli to the Bovido Imperium, ironically just days prior to the signing of the Treaty of Beijing which temporarily ended conflict in northern Africa.