The 10 Week War

The war started as many do.

A few scouts were sent out to survey the land they wished to invade. These undercover agents passed detection based solely on the lack of numbers. They seemed harmless at first, just surveying a new land.

As the numbers slowly increased the presence of the current few didn’t decrease, the land under attack took notice. Slowly yet deliberately the host nation took to snuffing out any invaders. Any invader found in the nation was put to immediate death.

After a few days it appeared the invaders have given up, the land was no longer under attack. The host nation foolishly let down its guard. Just what the invaders had hoped for.

One morning the invaders returned, this time in numbers. The nation found them attempting to penetrate a crude barrier erected earlier. The nation systematically destroyed all the insurgents and performed a deep cleansing of the nation in attempt to stymie any more attacks.

Chemical warfare was used. Blockades put up. Surveillance posts monitored.

The nation put into effect new rules in attempt to keep the invaders at bay.

While the host nation enforced tactics of deadly force it also abided by a set of rules. When possible only means that posed little to no harm to the host nation may be used. Natural elements were to be used only unless in dire circumstances. Only then could potential harmful pathogens be used.

While the invasion decreased somewhat it did not completely stop so the host nation tried a new tactic.

Bait the invaders with what they want and let their own greed be their down fall.

Traps where set, the invaders came in numbers. The host nation kept sentry, but did not attack. It monitored the traps, tracked the numbers and noticed after a short while the invaders decreased. Soon no more were found.

But the war was not over.

After the return of favorable weather from a deep polar plunge the invaders, too, returned. In a hunt once 

more for what they sought before.

The host nation, having kept a close eye on the point of penetration since the initial invasion, noticed their return once more.

Once again chemical warfare was deployed more quickly then the first invasion in an attempt to drive the invaders away more swiftly this time.

A new tactic deployed by the host nation was to obliterate any trail of the invaders so those following would lose their way or better yet be discouraged and turn back. Perhaps set their sights upon another nation to invade.

While this new tactic was being tested the host nation once more set up sentry. Any invader returning from the nation was subsequently executed. Any new invader was observed to see if the trail was successfully destroyed.

Many new emergers from enemy lines seemed confused from the start, not following the direct path. If the new invaders wandered to close to the boundary they met a swift death or sudden imprisonment by a whirling vortex.

It is unfortunate to admit the host nation had made a sport of terminating the invaders.

But the nation did not wish to destroy every last invader. Instead it simply wished to banish them from its lands forever. Teach the invaders that the nation was not indeed an easy mark.

The host nation could call in back up. It was, after all, part of treaties with allied forces who would respond to this invasion. The host nation was too proud for this, saving it for the very last moment when it became clear the war would go to the invaders. The host nation also feared the type of warfare the allies would deploy. As said before the host nation preferred a more holistic approach to its liquidation of the invaders. While in the end the result would be the same, something can be said by the method. The host nation did not want a public image of overt cruelty.

While the war itself may not be over the host nation continues to win the battles. It waits the day when the invaders’ spirit is broken and it retreats for good. Until that day comes the nation will continue to fight for full control of its land.

(Ants!)