Operation Kurszan
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Clockwise from Top Left: Mestran Artillery Brigade waiting for an order, July 1942. Reussisch troops in occupied Khraelyia, May 1941. Mestran Infantry under fire, November 1941. Bochvohrad City Centre after the 72 Hour Blitz, May 9th, 1941. Captured Secrazchak soldiers marching through Novokraeyi, June 1943. Khraelyi Heavy Bombers attacking Novofavaari, August 1943. | |||||||||
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Szentendre Entente
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Khraelyi Empire | ||||||||
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Frontline strength (5 May 1941)
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Frontline strength (5 May 1941)
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Total military casualties: Breakdown
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Total military casualties: Breakdown
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Operation Kurszán (Secrazchak: Kurszán hadművelet; Khraelyi: Операція Курсoн (romanised: Operatsiya Kurson) was the invasion of the Federal Republic of Khraelyia by the Secrazchak Empire and her allies, starting on Sunday, May 5, 1941, during the Great War. It was the largest land offensive in human history, with around 7 million combatants taking part. The operation, code-named after Secrazchak King Kurszán II (1653-1701), put into action the Secrazchak Empire's ideological goal of conquering the southwest of Khraelyia, subjugating the region as their industrial breadbasket.
In the years leading up to the invasion, the Secrazchak Empire and the Federal Republic of Khraelyia had signed a multitude of economic and political agreements for strategic purposes. Following the Secrazchak intervention in the Talmieran War, as well as growing Khraelyi interest in the area, the Secrazchak high command began drawing up an operation in March of 1940 (under the codename Operation Dominik). Over the course of the operation, over 3.8 million personnel of the Axis of Seterran Liberation—the largest invasion force in the history of warfare—invaded the southwest of Khraelyia on May fifth.
The operation began the Khraelyi Front, in which more forces were committed than in any other theatre of war in human history. The area saw some of history’s largest battles, most horrific atrocities, and highest casualties (for Khraelyi and Secrazchak forces alike), all of which influenced the course of the Great War, and the subsequent history of the 20th century.
The failure of Operation Kurszán reversed the fortunes of the Secrazchak Empire. Operationally, Secrazchak forces achieved significant victories and occupied some of the most important economic areas of Khraelyia of the time (mainly in Blahoveshnyi province) and inflicted, as well as sustained, heavy casualties. Despite these early successes, the Secrazchak offensive stalled in the Battle of Krystynopil at the end of 1941, and the subsequent reformation of the Khraelyi armed forces along the Siverschyna River. The Secrazchak high command anticipated a quick collapse of Khraelyi resistance, noting how their forces had not been involved in a major conflict in 90 years. However, no such collapse occurred, and instead the Territorial Defense Force absorbed the Secrazchak Imperial Armed Force's strongest blows and bogged it down in a war of attrition for which the Secrazchaks were unprepared.
Background
War of the Grindgat (1909-1913)
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Rise of the Secrazchak National Revival Front
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