Daehab-man Air Force Base, Ipwongsung Island, Saegya
2355, December 7th, 2020
Special Operations Regiment 229, Company A
Infiltration had gone swimmingly.
A dozen small small, black row boats had carried the men of Company A to shore, just two kilometers eastward along the coast from the objective. A short trek along the coast would bring these men to their objective- the Air Force base at Daehab-man. Once they arrived at the base, they'd coordinate cruise missile strikes by a passing pair of destroyers and a squadron of fighter bombers approaching from the east.
The idea was that the Regiment 229 strike team would manage to disable any major air defenses just in time for the fighter bombers to make their run. Once the bombing and missile strikes had subsided, the Company would launch a ground assault on the base and seize it, then be reinforced by helicopter-borne infantry from the rest of Regiment 229.
Of course, this was but one leg of the large-scale attack taking place tonight and into tomorrow evening that would see the Communist Saegyan military and government displaced from rightful Trangese territory.
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Making their way through the dense jungle of the coast, the soldiers of Company A carried with them a great deal of armament for this task. Since it was planned from the start to be such a short movement from the infil site to the air base, full kits had been allocated to each man, along with a number of heavy weapons. Granzerian MANPADs and the Trangese domestically produced copies of the Vazandian RFG-49 recoilless rifles with HE warheads were the mainstay of their explosives, along with a handful of VP anti-tank RPGs. Each fireteam also had a light machine gun and each platoon had a GPMG, rounding out the anti-personnel capabilities of the elite group.
Communcations equipment was plenty as well, all for the purpose of guiding and directing strikes against the air base. There had been 16 cruise missiles allocated for this strike, along with 6 fighter bombers (Trangese variants KFZ-13 Weisserrabes) armed with guided bombs and rockets.
Of course, this whole attack had been disguised as a large scale training exercise performed in defiance of international condemnations against the nuclear test performed just weeks ago. The destroyers had been sailing the same route for weeks, in international waters but well-within cruise missile range. Frequently, they'd been escorted by fighters from the mainland, so the setup for this assault wouldn't set off many alarms with the Saegyans, ideally.
When the assault began, if everything had gone according to plan, it would be too late for the Saegyans to respond. Overwhelming force would ideally force the Saegyans to stand down and accept the loss- if they refused and fought back, it was believed that the islands could be defended with adequate military forces stationed there- something the Saegyans did not have, beyond some token garrison forces.
The worst case scenario would be the intervention of the VP, or worse, the OCN. However, it was believed that the OCN was too impotent to do anything about the invasion- the Entente was passive, the Kruppstadt Pact and VSO wasn't going to fight to defend Saegya and, most importantly, the VP would be too focused on the situation in Zuljikistan to respond with genuine force.
All this taken into consideration, the King was confident in his chances of success.
Tổng cục Tình báo (General Department of Security), Nơi Nương Tựa, Nha Trang
1930, December 6th, 2020
Trần Đại Quang, Kingdom of Trang Department Director
Trần found himself once again staying late for a brief that should have been done hours ago- his wife wasn't going to let him hear the end of this.
You need to spend more time with the kids. Why haven't wee taken a vacation in 2 years?
"Well, I'm sorry to not be not be too keen on vacationing as a spymaster during some of the most tense moments in Trangese relations since the war..."
And another internal argument- frequent occurrences lately. Anything to distract himself from the formalities of the briefing. As the Director of the entire Department, it's not like he hadn't already read himself up on all this intelligence over the last couple days- the only new pieces here were the opinions of analysts. At the end of the day, the only thing that was going to happen was that this brief would be pushed higher to the General Director, then to the President, and then maybe he'd inform the Saegyans and their Vesperian overlords.
"Funny," he thought, "The first people who'll get an, admittedly, redacted version of this will be the Vazandians. Our former overlords. Oh, and the Acronians, I'm sure. The President just loves coddling the Vesperians. The Chilokveris and Hudans probably won't see this until next week."
Snapping back to reality, Trần leaned forward in his chair and rubbed his temples and eyes as the brief finished, catching a knowing and almost disdainful look from the presenter. "I could fire you," he thought to himself in response.
Trần cleared his throat and stood, then spoke to the presenter, "Make sure this is presented in full to the General Director within the hour. He'll want to brief the President. Ensure he gets a written summary, and let the Vazandians know we'll have table scraps for them. Acronians too; usual protocols and redactions for both of them. GD will get it to anyone else who needs it. Dismissed, everyone."
I R I SReport on Information from Intelligence Sharing Operation with Nha Trang DEC-6-20Foreword
This report will cover the information handed to us by our partners in the Nha Trangese intelligence community. The information comes by way of the Nha Trangese SIGINT and HUMINT resources currently focused on the Kingdom of Trang- that is to say, the vast majority of Nha Trangese SIGINT and HUMINT resources.
Most of the information comes from a series of intercepted and decoded intra-governmental and military communiques, all of which have been dated post-nuclear test. It should be noted that there has been a 46% increase in intercepted communiques since the nuclear test, and most have not yet been decoded or analyzed yet by Nha Trangese authorities, so this is likely an incomplete picture so far. We've lobbied with their intelligence community to allow the local IRIS station access to the un-analyzed communiques, but they've steadfastly rebuked us, claiming this information was best they could do given their national security concerns. We suspect they're paranoid about potentially exposing a human source within the Trangese government."Bão đen" (Black Hurricane)
Suspected codename or operational name for a military attack on Saegya- in particular on Ipwongsung and Kaesung Islands. Ipwongsung is noted for its recently discovered platinum reserves, which are quite large relative to the size of the island. Trang has claimed these islands as historical territories yanked from them by Vesperian imperialism and handed to Saegya by the VP. This is standard propaganda.
The following is a summary of a planned invasion of these islands that was planned as far back as 2017. The latest iteration of this plan that we have access to is from November 2019- we are unsure how much, if at all, the plan has changed since then.
A Special Forces Regiment such as their famed Regiment 229 or Regiment 665 would seize the the southeastern Saegyan Air Force base at Daehab-man as well as the bridge leading to the minor outlying island the base sits on. Following this assault, helicopter based reinforcements would be flown in to the airfield.
Within an hour of this assault, helicopter based infantry from Airborne Regiment 92 would be landed Kaesung Island near Borhae and Amuan Base under the cover of an aggressive bombing campaign against Amuan Base.
Simultaneously, paratroopers from Airborne Regiment 98 would be landed at Haesu to seize the port and airport. These troopers would be brought in with light vehicles and special forces.
By early morning, fighter bombers would hit Camp Baeno in rotating flights throughout the day, with the goal being to level the camp.
As soon as possible, a two-pronged amphibious assault would commence on Jinju-don and Matsuko by a split force from the Marine Infantry Division 56.
With the island secure, the plan calls for the rapid addition of long-range air defense, artillery, and light armor to be added to the garrison, along with additional infantry to pacify the civilian populace, handle insurgencies, and secure "areas of strategic interest."Timeline
While we do not have reliable intelligence as to when such an attack could take place, it's the opinion of our Nha Trang station that the recent Trangese military maneuvers are a cover for the invasion.
The geographic proximity of Trang to these islands would make large-scale logistical moves that might signal an invasion unnecessary, easily passed off as routine training maneuvers. A surprise attack would be a simple effort, deterred only by perceived Saegyan military supremacy or Stasnovan and Gorbatovic willingness to intervene. With the heating up of the Zuljikistani affair and the diplomatic crisis in Estheria and New Cambria, Trang could easily be convinced that now is their opportunity to seize the islands. It is the opinion of the Nha Trangese station that this is an extremely likely scenario, given the psychological profile of King Nguyễn Thành Phong.
End Report