Background
In early 2010 the world was shaken by the Spring Uprisings: A massive revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups and civil wars which spread its way through authoritarian and totalitarian countries like a wildfire, campaigning against sectarianism, inflation, kleptocracy, human rights violations, unemployment and authoritarianism. Many of these countries soon buckled under the weight, fell to their knee's, and descended into chaos as Western neoliberal agenda succeeded in achieving its geopolitical goals, but a select few nations were able to hold out amidst the chaos, one of these nations was the Basran Socialist Republic. As the world was plunged into chaos, Basran continued to hold out as the socialist regime of President Rashaad al-Syed resorted to using the military and police to harshly suppress protesters into submission, as well as its secret intelligence agency to make sure ringleaders "went quiet." It seemed as if peace would hold as the protesters were finally defeated in mid 2010 and temporary stability returned to the country.
However a year of resistance, Basran finally began to crack in early 2011 when violent protests grew in numbers far surpassing anything the government could prepare for and in the space of a month, violent mobs de-facto took over parts of the country, ejecting local authorities and placing the areas under their control. Many prisoners were freed from military prisons that had been seized and weapons were captured from looted garrisons near these prisons. The protests sprang up due to the Nationalist Party of Basran (NPB) winning presidential elections by a slim margin, but President Rashaad al-Syed refused to stand down, and instead used the military, police and secret intelligence to try and mop up resistance however they were soon overwhelmed in some regions of the country by the amount of popular support against them and were forced to cease operations in those areas, allowing dissidence to grow.
The black market exploded in Basran as a result of this, creating a massive influx of weapons into the hands of the mobs, and soon enough, the Basrani Civil War began on the 29th of July, 2011, when defectors from the People's National Army (PNA) defected to the violent mobs and formed the Front for the National Restoration of Basran (FNRB), a nationalist guerrilla faction, which allowed the FNRB to gain large swathes of conventional military materiel such as tanks, armoured vehicles, combat helicopters, light attack aircraft and gunboats. With this boost of manpower and military materiel, the FNRB launched large scale attacks against PNA positions all across the country, capturing large amounts of territory. Taken by surprise and despite their best efforts to put up heavy resistance, by late 2012 the FNRB had captured most of Central Basran and Eastern Basran, isolating the PNA in Western Basran and forcing the remaining PNA forces in to put up their last stand in the Khoydah Desert as the FNRB drove towards the capital of Basran, Khoydah. Many thought that at this point, the days of the socialist regime were surely numbered. In the Khoydah Desert however, the FNRB faced much heavier resistance as the PNA organized themselves effectively and every advance they made resulted in heavy casualties and equipment losses, but the damage inflicted on them was inflicted in double the force on the PNA and the FNRB captured the Khoydah Mountains in late 2013, and had Jarrasrakh and Habanah encircled, the last strongholds required to fall to the FNRB before they could advance. Habanah fell, but Jarrasrakh did not.
After this, the PNA thought fiercely and despite taking heavy casualties, only lost 1 kilometer of ground to the FNRB within the space of a month on all fronts. In the mean time, the PNA in Western Besran began to prepare for a large defensive war, fortifying the islands coasts and constructing rigid defensive networks in the mountains and cities. Fearing going from one authoritarian government to another, in 2013 a faction within the FNRB broke off and declared themselves the Basrani Democratic Forces, vowing to return Basran to a full democracy and began attacking FNRB forces in Eastern Basran. Due to the sudden assault from within, the FNRB offensive in Central Basran slowly collapsed and PNA forces were able to slowly push the FNRB back, breaking out of the encirclement and slowly pushed the FNRB back across the mountains and retook Habanah in a surprise offensive, before ceasing offensive operations due to manpower and equipment losses, whilst the BDF overwhelmed FNRB forces in Eastern Basran and a year of slow and heavy fighting, the FNRB conducted a mass withdrawal of its units from Eastern Basran to Central Basran. The war began to stalemate throughout 2014, with neither sides able to make any big pushes against the others, and instead were forced to adapt battalion sized assaults and hit-and-run raids in order to try and gradually push the front lines and by 2015, there were only 123 instances of clashes along the front lines, less than 1 engagement every 2 days and in 2016, the FNRB, PNA and BDF signed a universal ceasefire, supposedly ending the war in a stalemate. Despite some minor clashes continuing, there were no major engagements along the front lines.
For a year, each side was able to build up their military forces, with the NPA increasing its number of infantrymen drastically, and deploying coastal missiles capable of striking targets deep within FNRB territory. The NPA also continued build up its defensive positions in the mountains and along the coast, preparing for the eventual invasion. The FNRB declared the formation of the Basran Democratic Republic within its territory, and laid claim to the entirety of Basran, sparking fresh new disputes along the front lines. FNRB forces had built up their stockpile of tanks, armoured vehicles, aviation and artillery and had transformed into a part-insurgent part-conventional fighting force. The BDF used the stockpiles it had captured from when the FNRB had retreated to build up its militia forces with some modern weaponry such as ATGM's, MANPAD's and post-Soviet era rocket systems and mortars. By early 2017, a new proxy war erupted in Basran. Islamists supportive of the FNRB known as Jahbat al-Islam sprung up, as well as a Basrani offshoot off Hezbollah, and managed to infiltrate areas held by the NPA and BDF, seizing them in an attempt to give the FNRB the advantage. The BDF responded by funding Jewish and Christian militias within the FNRB territory, which now threaten to cut off several major roads as they continue to gradually advance.
With all sides ready to refresh the conflict... escalation ensued.
