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Department of War Operations Planning - CO. Slate - 04-03-2024
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Department of War Operations Planning
Department of War Operations Planning
Department of War Operations Planning
The Liberty Security Force is not just missile-toting Battlecruisers. The sheer bureaucracy that goes into putting a single fighter, much less a flotilla, in the air would boggle the mind of anyone not intimately familiar with the structural inefficiency of any large organization. Every fighter must be ordered from DSE, who then has to put in the work orders to produce them. They then have to be flown to their new pilots, on deployments anywhere within Liberty. Warships have it easy, the waiting list for commanders out of West Point is short and lacking major conflicts at present, capital attrition is minimal. Deployment of the ships, as well, is done through layers of bureaucracy. Warships taking up station are in general expected to be there in the bureaucracy's eye. But these individual ships aren't the focus here.
Analysts, bureaucrats, theorists, and unofficial observers sit in meetings and plot out how to make sure Liberty comes out ahead in any expected conflict. This is the Department of War Operations Planning (DOWOP). DOWOP observes aggregates of industry, corporate maneuvering, and underworld politics. The DOWOP maintains its own apparatus of informants and agents, given shocking amounts of free rein to engage with the rest of Sirius. The most successful such network is overseen by Case Officer Slate.
Analysts, bureaucrats, theorists, and unofficial observers sit in meetings and plot out how to make sure Liberty comes out ahead in any expected conflict. This is the Department of War Operations Planning (DOWOP). DOWOP observes aggregates of industry, corporate maneuvering, and underworld politics. The DOWOP maintains its own apparatus of informants and agents, given shocking amounts of free rein to engage with the rest of Sirius. The most successful such network is overseen by Case Officer Slate.
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Dramatis PersonaeRE: Department of War Operations Planning - CO. Slate - 04-03-2024
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Department of War Operations Planning
Department of War Operations Planning
Department of War Operations Planning
The expected war with Kusari over Platinum rights has kicked the Department into a frenzy of plots, counter-plots, and subtle whispers to their operatives. The humiliating performance of DSE at the hands of Samura and Kishiro has their wealthy corporate sponsors, upon whose goodwill much of the Department's ability to procure expedited solutions to problems rests, in an uproar, and a threat to the profits of Liberty's corporations is a threat to Liberty herself.
It has only taken a few weeks for DOWOP to throw together ballpark estimates.
It has only taken a few weeks for DOWOP to throw together ballpark estimates.
RE: Department of War Operations Planning - CO. Slate - 04-03-2024
Case Officer Slate is flagged down by one of the unofficial observers, a representative of DSE's interests, able to give estimates of what DSE can contribute to a given effort, as well as whisper into the LSF's ear what kinds of problems abroad could use a little unofficial nudging.
RE: Department of War Operations Planning - CO. Slate - 04-05-2024
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Department of War Operations Planning
Department of War Operations Planning
Department of War Operations Planning
The Kusari Jump Drive's theoretical range was extrapolated from the berth of space Kusari has access to. A potential target list of a Jump Drive assault launched from Shikoku made the rounds almost immediately.
Likewise, a set of updated recommendations were presented.
RE: Department of War Operations Planning - CO. Slate - 04-10-2024
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Department of War Operations Planning
Department of War Operations Planning
Department of War Operations Planning
"...we shall not trouble you with specious pretenses---either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of the wrong that you have done us---and make a long speech that would not be believed; and in return, we hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Lacedaemonians, although they are colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, ...since you know as well as we do the right, as the world goes, is only in question between equal power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
"...Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. And it is not as if we were the first to make this law, or to act upon it when made; we found it existing before us, and will leave it to exist forever after us; all we do is to make use of it, knowing that you and everybody else having the same power as we have would do the same as we do. Thus, as far as the gods are concerned, we have no fear and no reason to fear that we shall be at a disadvantage. But...your notion about the Lacedaemonians, which leads you to believe that shame will make them help you, here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly. The Lacedaemonians...are most conspicuous in considering what is agreeable, honourable, and what is expediently just...Your strongest arguments depend upon hope and the future, and your actual resources are too scanty as compared to those arrayed against you, for you to come out victorious. You will therefore show great blindness of judgment unless, after allowing us to retire, you can find some counsel more prudent than this."
A proposal for LSF teams to quickly fuel and hijack Bretonia's mothballed fleet of Invincible Dreadnoughts made the rounds in DOWOP. The opportunity as presented was a brilliant one, with which Liberty could use the combined capital might to project enough power to fuel imperialistic ambitions indefinitely. Every single corporate rep screamed bloody murder, and the plan should have been shelved then and there. However, the imminent war with Kusari, as well as Bretonia's weakened state after the Dublin debacle, meant it mysteriously remained on the table, a gleam in the eye of the theorists, ready to go if the worst reared its ugly head...
"...Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. And it is not as if we were the first to make this law, or to act upon it when made; we found it existing before us, and will leave it to exist forever after us; all we do is to make use of it, knowing that you and everybody else having the same power as we have would do the same as we do. Thus, as far as the gods are concerned, we have no fear and no reason to fear that we shall be at a disadvantage. But...your notion about the Lacedaemonians, which leads you to believe that shame will make them help you, here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly. The Lacedaemonians...are most conspicuous in considering what is agreeable, honourable, and what is expediently just...Your strongest arguments depend upon hope and the future, and your actual resources are too scanty as compared to those arrayed against you, for you to come out victorious. You will therefore show great blindness of judgment unless, after allowing us to retire, you can find some counsel more prudent than this."
- Athenian diplomat, Melian Dialogue
A proposal for LSF teams to quickly fuel and hijack Bretonia's mothballed fleet of Invincible Dreadnoughts made the rounds in DOWOP. The opportunity as presented was a brilliant one, with which Liberty could use the combined capital might to project enough power to fuel imperialistic ambitions indefinitely. Every single corporate rep screamed bloody murder, and the plan should have been shelved then and there. However, the imminent war with Kusari, as well as Bretonia's weakened state after the Dublin debacle, meant it mysteriously remained on the table, a gleam in the eye of the theorists, ready to go if the worst reared its ugly head...
RE: Department of War Operations Planning - CO. Slate - 04-13-2024