At several airfields throughout Berdanvia, Allanean airliners rented by the Ministry of War began landing. In their cargo holds they carried a cargo of police equipment which Berdanvia urgently seemed to need. First and foremost, these were small, portable drones,
surveillance equipment small enough to fit in into a police car's trunk, cameras, and so forth.
In passenger compartment, enjoying unusual levels of comfort for a military ride, sat several dozen professionals, some of them members of the armed forces, others civilian contractors hired for the mission on short notice. They would begin organizing classes for civilians to better protect themselves in a terrorist attack, and for police officers and soldiers to be better use the hi-tech equipment that Berdanvia was now being given.
Simultaneously with this, several
Athena solar drones were launched and began patrolling the skies over Berdanvia. Information from those drones was immediately sent to the Berdanvian government.
Obviously, this was only a small amount of help, but already this would make important differences. However, to distract from what they were doing, and to attempt and disorient the Grezky Islamists, the Free Kingdom Ministry of War – as it often did – decided to send out a message. It was soon posted on a variety of Islamist sites, where the enemy was bound to find it.
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Jihadists, look at your man. Now back at me.
Sadly for you, your man is not me. He could look like me – if he trained for years, passed excruciating tests, was in perfect health, while being trained in several methods of killing and armed with the finest weapons and dressed in the best armor that money could buy. But in reality, your men are malnourished, balding, underweight suicide bombers, whose sole strength is that they are – or at least they claim to be – very brave and happy to die for their faith.
Guess what? Your enemies are also very brave. Except we've also gone to school. And the people who plan our operations, they have also gone to school! So have the people who built our drones, our laser sights, the bombers that support our operations, and so on. (If you don't know what a bomber is, it's when you hear a loud noise in the sky and then there are explosions and the infidels hurt you with the sharp steel).
At this point not a single Allanean soldier, sailor, or airman, has yet been deployed to fire shots at you, and yet your leadership is already freaking out and ordering your brothers in Jihad to kill themselves for its glory. What will they do when I, and my brothers, actually go hunting for them? They do not even have uniforms to issue the suicide bombers to pose in the propaganda photos!
The people of Berdanvia are brave and committed to fight you and your so-called Shah. Every town in Berdanvia has its workers' militia. Every house is a fortress.
Soon enough, the coalition partners will come for you and your rulers. People like me will hunt high and low for your leaders – and I guarantee you that our leaders will not send us to fight in crappy white undershirts and grey jackets – we will have the best uniforms and weapons and vehicles. Will there be a hole for your leaders deep enough to hide? And if there is such a hole – will your leaders provide you with such a hole?
Happily for you, Allaneans are not only rich, smart, and capable of extreme violence – we are also kind and generous! So if you know anything about terrorist activities, or perhaps the locations of any terrorist leaders, you can contact the Ministry of War at berdanvia-tips@mow.gov.all, and you will be generously rewarded and provided amnesty and a place in a witness protection program!
Signed: A lieutenant in the Free Kingdom Special Operations forces