First Peninsular War

### Location

Akhdari Peninsula (major operations conducted in Kissura, Marad, and Kindar, with spillover into Ashkak and Larak)

### Result

**Kindari Victory*** Kindarism remains the state religion of Kindar
* The ruling el-Saleh dynasty retains control of Kindar
* Demilitarization of the Kissura-Kindar border (until 2002)

## Belligerents

### Side I

**Akhdari Association*** State of Kissura
* State of Marad
* United Coalition of Sippara

Supported By

* Republic of Sahwalia
* Coalition of Cyrene
* Emirate of Ifriqiyah
* State of Tamasq

### Side II

**Kindar*** Kingdom of the Kindari

Supported By

* State of Ninevia
* Aferist Emirate of Parsia

## Commanders and Leaders

### Side I

* **Hakam el-Sahli**
* **Aasim al-Obeid**
* **Zuhair al-Saba**
* Ahmed el-Ghanem
* Mustaba al-Shafi
* Saabir al-Majeed
* Quraish al-Hashem
* Taaha el-Saab
* Ishaaq el-Rahim
* Faraj al-Rayes
* Numair al-Azer
* Faai Z el-Meer
* Raaid al-Hashem

### Side II

* **Umair el-Saleh**
* Haneef al-Niazi
* Aakif el-Farag
* Faatin al-Hasen
* Nassaar el-Edris
* Abdul Waahid el-Ally

## Strength

### Side I

* Kissura - 400,000 Soldiers
* Marad - 100,000 Soldiers
* Sippara - 80,000 Soldiers

## Casualties and Losses

### Side I

* Kissura - 128,027 Killed, 201,572 Wounded
* Marad - 52,374 Killed, 87,341 Wounded
* Sippara - 29,381 Killed, 37,068 Wounded

### Side II

* Kindar - 150,000 to 225,000 Killed, 250,000 to 400,000 Wounded

The **First Peninsular War** was a two-year long armed campaign waged by nations of the Akhdari Association against the Kingdom of the Kindari, in response to the closing of all places of Aferist worship within the Kindari capital of An Nasrah in 1977.

A member of the Akhdari Association since 1952, Kindar was subjected to sanctions immediately following their move away from Aferism. An emergency session of the Akhdari Association was called on July 16th, 1977, during which simultaneous members of the Oil Producing League of the Akhdar Peninsula (OPLAP) elected to engage in a price war against Kindar. On the 18th, all members of the OPLAP except the Principality of Ashkak dropped their prices by as much as 25%, leading to a drop in the market share and stock value of Kindar's state-owned oil company, KinOil. Most members of the association also agreed to sanctions proposed during the emergency session held on the 16th, and began levying heavy taxes on exports of textiles, foodstuffs, and purified water to Kindar.

When these economic pressures failed to force the Kindari monarchy into backing down, several members of the association jointly resolved to 'liberate' Kindar by force, drawing up plans for an invasion starting in November of 1977. By March, the association had amassed more than half a million soldiers on Kindar's border, and the nations of Sippara, Kissura, and Marad jointly declared war on March 16th. Kindar, which had begun mobilizing as early as January, was more prepared for the invasion than initially expected, however. Airstrikes conducted by the Kindari Air Force throughout the first day of the invasion severely limited the capabilities of association air units, and slowed association ground forces enough for a counterattack to commence on March 25th. Following this stagnation of the association campaign, the war entered a relative standstill that would continue for the next two years.

In the years since the acceptance of Orphean Assembly Resolution 356, historians have compared the First Peninsular War to the Great War in regards to tactics used, which included large-scale trench warfare with barbed wire stretched across fortified defensive lines, manned machine-gun posts, Kindar's extensive use of chemical weapons, and deliberate attacks on civilian targets by both sides.

## Background

### Relations Between Kindar and the Akhdari Association

Since joining the Akhdari Association in 1952, the Kingdom of the Kindari had found itself regularly isolated and shunned by its fellow member-states. Hostility towards the nation mostly revolved around the growing state-sanctioned cult of personality that had formed around Kindari monarch, Hilaal el-Saleh. In efforts to further solidify his dynasty's control over Kindar, el-Saleh had also begun cracking down on the worship of faiths such as Aferism and Katharism during his reign, a move that was met with outrage, especially among state-sponsored Aferist nations such as Sippara and Kissura. Kindar's government was regularly accused of blasphemy by fellow members of the association, and when Hilaal's successor, Umair el-Saleh, refused to revert his father's policies, pressure was mounted by the nations of Sippara and Kissura to remove Kindar from the association. In a vote held during the 15 April 1969 session of the Council of Delegates, Kindar was removed by a margin of 6-2, with Ashkak and Larak abstaining.

Following Kindar's removal from the association, tensions between it and its neighbors increased dramatically, culminating in the Ramathah border incident. Soldiers of Kindar and Kissura opened fire on one another for unconfirmed reasons during the early hours of the morning, with Kissuran troops crossing the border once they emerged victorious and sacking the hamlet of Ramathah. As many as ten civilians were killed during the sack, after which war between Kindar and Kissura seemed inevitable. It was only with a public execution of the commanding Kissuran officer, Naazil el-Wali, that peace was temporarily secured.