Autumn Offensive

## 2021 Autumn Offensive

Combatants and Belligerents|  Uralic Federal Subjects* Uralic Insurgents
* Caspian Insurgents

In the Chawo-Uralic War, the **Autumn Offensive** was a major Uralic Federal Subjects-led military campaign waged by the Uralic Armed Forces and their insurgent allies to capture control of the Ural Wall and use the border as a strategic weapon against the Empire of Chawosauria. The assault begins on October 11, 2021, and ends on December 11, 2021 with the 2021 fall of the Ural Wall. The Autumn Offensive was ordered by Uralic President Nicholas Brazhnikov as ***Operation Autumn Fall***, and the first military assaults on the Chawosaurian Imperial Border Patrol was launched by the Uralic Air Force on October 11, 2021. This is the first military engagement during the Chawo-Uralic War directly between the Empire of Chawosauria and the Uralic Federal Subjects in the war's history.

What started the Autumn Offensive is the Caspian Insurgency joining the Uralic Insurgency in trying to take down the Ural Wall, a Chawosaurian border between two of Chawosauria's Continental Federal Republics: the Federal Republic of Europe and the Federal Republic of Asia. The Ural Wall is the ultimate trigger of the Chawo-Uralic War, which undercuts Chawosauria's original reasoning of the Ural Wall, which it's to retain border security.

## Background

The Ural Wall is the Chawosaurian inner border meant to separate two Continental Federal Republics: the Federal Republic of Europe and the Federal Republic of Asia, as part of the borders of Chawosauria's most powerful administrative divisions called Continental Federal Republics. The Ural Wall, along with the rest of the Continent Union, was founded on June 23, 2019 by the Treaty of Bucharest following the immediate end of the Chawosaurian Revolution, and the Continent Union was ceremonially established on January 20, 2020, just 19 days after the swearing in of the newly elected Communist Party government headed by Shang Jong Parker, the new Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria.

The Ural Wall immediately started to blow back on Chawosauria, the effects of the Ural Wall provoked the Uralic Insurgency in the autumn of 2019, and then after Parker took office, the Invasion of the Urals and subsequent Chawo-Uralic War, effectively escalating the broader Chawo-Uralic Conflict. The Chawo-Uralic War was eventually eclipsed by the COVID-19 pandemic and escalating Chawosaurian interest in the 2020 U.S. presidential election following the police killing of George Floyd and subsequent blowback. While all of this was going on, Uralic Insurgents took advantage of the ceasefire agreed upon earlier for Chawosauria to prevent a COVID-19 pandemic in Chawosauria to advance the resistance against the Ural Wall from a weak start in the Chawo-Uralic War to a stronger position.

## Strategies and Objective

The Insurgents against the Ural Wall, planned with President Brazhnikov, discussed the imminent Operation Snow Storm, a Chawosaurian carpet bombardment operation that will come by December 2021 and will be executed by the Chawosaurian Imperial Air Force. The Uralic Insurgents and the Brazhnikov government calculated that storming and occupying the Ural Wall could put Chawosauria in a position where they will have to choose between having to carpet bomb the Ural Wall to kill the insurgents, which would actually mean destroying the Ural Wall which is the whole goal of the Uralic Insurgency; or stand down their carpet bombing plans and fight the insurgents with ground troops, which has proven to be a weak spot for the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces with or without air support, this is meant to be a strategy that will put Chawosauria in a lose-lose situation.

Named the Autumn Offensive because the offensive will be launched throughout the autumn of 2021. Inspirations coming from the 1975 spring offensive during the Vietnam War and the 2021 Taliban offensive during the War in Afghanistan; as well as inspiration and learning lessons from the 2021 violent storming and short-lived occupation of the United States Capitol by Trump supporters was also discussed in planning for storming and occupying of control bases of the Ural Wall border with President Nicholas Brazhnikov. If the Autumn Offensive is successful, the Ural Wall will then fall under the control of President Brazhnikov's government and be used as a weapon by Uralic Insurgents and Brazhnikov military forces.

## Battles of the Autumn Offensive

Battles of the Autumn Offensive broke out on October 11, 2021, and are ongoing.

* **October 11, 2021 - October 31, 2021 - October Uprising**: The October Uprising are the first insurgent uprisings taking place in the southern Ural Wall launched by the Caspian Insurgency and the Uralic Insurgency.
	+ **October 17, 2021 - ongoing - Ural Wall Airlift**: The intense firefighting between Chawosaurian volunteer forces and anti-border insurgents caused the Chawosaurian Imperial Border Patrol's 78th Unit to end their deployment to the Ural Wall by the 2019 Treaty of Bucharest and evacuate the Ural border immediately.
	+ **October 25, 2021 - November 11, 2021 - Battle of Yekaterinburg:** The Chawosaurian border operation in the Sverdlovsk Oblast has fallen to the Uralic Armed Forces and their insurgent allies. The fall of Sverdlovsk Oblast has created the groundwork for the collapse of the Ural Wall to the control of the Brazhnikov government.
* **December 11, 2021 - Fall of the Ural Wall**: The completion of the Autumn Offensive.

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