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As Kalistan reorients its Foreign Policy, Baltusian Moves raise Alarm
Army Group South and the 3rd Navy receive Alert, will be reinforced
Yoshimi Station, Yoshimi, Duchy of Suldanor
February 27, 5513


Corvette Commander LtJG Brigette Connor stands watch with her crew onbord KRS-39 patroling the Southern Limit

Her Imperial Majesty's Minister of Defense, Naval Captain Guillermo Davis announced today that the 3rd Navy, whose job it is to patrol the Southern Limit of the Ananto Strait will be placed on 48 hour alert following news from Baltusia of a dramatic increase in military procurement. In addition, Army Group South will also be placed on alert and forward elements of the Army Group will begin training in southern Suldanor.

"We aren't really sure what they are doing, but their dramatic and inexplicable increase in military procurement obviously raises all kinds of red flags in Kaliburg," the Captain said. "Her Imperial Majesty is obviously concerned by radical shifts in policy, especially in nations close to Kalistan, especially in military policy, especially when they are claiming to protect neutrality while there is no significant threat to neutrality anywhere in the Continent, especially when the procurement includes attempts to acquire advanced weapon systems. Kalistani military doctrine dictates that our strength be directed at deterrence, to make any cost-benefit analysis so heavy on the 'cost side' that it negates the value of any 'benefits', so, an inexplicable and sudden multiplication, by geometric levels, of the military budget in a nation that could use that military weaponry to threaten or influence Kalistan is obviously going to provoke a reaction."

The Minister stated that Her Imperial Majesty will seek comment from Baltusian Embassy officials in Kaliburg, but has reportedly "heard nothing to date about what the purpose of this military spending is, or why Baltusia, a nation with an tiny shoreline needs an aircraft carrier, other than to perhaps threaten its neighbors with forward projection." Until the Empress hears otherwise, Kalistan will remain on alert, and will continue to prepare defense in depth.

"We have asked the Institutionalists to step up their training of the militia," said Captain Davis. "To date, they have acquired more than 350 pieces of artillery from KMC, whether it be surplus or new weaponry, and small arms procurement is on pace with their schedule. But we need to do more training to coordinate our efforts. In any invasion or incursion in the Straits, the Militia will play a pivotal role in the irregular war that will run in tandem with the movements of the Regular Force, and history has demonstrated that coordinated action between the Militia and the Regular Forces is a winning strategy."

The Institutionalist Militia has recently put an order in to KMC for between 400 and 500 mortar batteries, as well as a stockpile of munitions to support those batteries. They are beginning to cycle units through the Mountain Warfare Training Center in Lhasa Neveras where they have started training with the Nordic Corps. The IBSI has also stepped up its border surveillance operations. "We aren't at the point of building bunkers and laying barricades in Suldanor yet," said the Defense Minister, "But, let's just say we are checking our stockpiles of sandbags and M2s. We will need more if Baltusia decides to listen to the bad angel on its shoulder rather than the good one, as they occasionally, and for some unknown reason, do."

Kalistan is looking into sending out calls to others in the region to consider participating in Naval training in the Strait, but the Minister said these plans were in place before the Baltusian procurement was announced. "We did not have any advanced warning of that action by the Baltusians," said Captain Clark. "They haven't really been talking to the Kalistani Government recently. About anything."