Nordic soldiers recently deployed to the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland
A week following the terrorist attacks on Scandinavian oil rigs and the declaration of military exercises in the North Sea, [i]Det Lederen has officially announced the Scandinavia will immediately begin a "military intervention" in the Orkney Islands. Citing the need to root out the anarcho-communist cells that have taken control of the islands as well as numerous other locations in the islands north of Scotland, the protection of Scandinavian territorial integrity, and the security of economic interests in the North Sea the Scandinavian invasion of the islands has begun.
Military operations already started as of early this morning with airstrikes on military facilities and the sinking several make ship naval vessels that have been trapped in Scapa Flow by the Krigsvagnen, likely acquired through donations by socialist nations or other sympathetic organizations. Naval invasions carrying land forces on to the islands have already started pushing the local terrorists out of towns and fortified positions, though their resistance has made advancing difficult. Though the locals are mostly armed with older more out of date equipment they have proven to adept at guerrilla warfare and have posed a significant obstacle to early Nordic objectives. Patrols at sea have also proved to be hazardous due to mines being present throughout much of the island's coastlines.
While Stockholm has given Nordic forces strict orders that the civilian population and infrastructure is to be left as intact as possible the resistance posed by the locals have made abiding by this objective difficult utilizing any building an position to that can be used to their advantage. A majority of households have been found to possess weaponry of some kind and their occupants the ability to use them. This unfortunate fact has forced the demolition of numerous buildings to rubble and their owners to be rounded up and detained for the time being. BF units as well as numerous other police forces have been dispatched to the islands to ensure that the process of judging and removing troublesome civilians goes smoothly.
Despite the difficulties faced so far the Ministry of Defense doubts that the island's resistance will last longer than a month without reinforcements or ease of supply. The entire island has been blockaded by sea and closed off by air removing any outside assistance of the island without immediately being spotted. Foreign nations have been advised by the FOFP to avoid the islands to ensure that both military and civilian are unharmed during Scandinavia's intervention, and warning that any entrance into the exclusion zone that has been declared surrounding the islands will be either detained, sunk, or shot down.