Alapet War

The Alapet War (Koxori: Ejoxmour Alapetek /eˈjoχmɔr alaˈpetek/; Ghazvan: Ikha Alapetik; 31 May 1989 – 26 November 1994), officially the Koxori-Ghazvan War, was a war of aggression between Koxor and the Military Republic of Ghazva. It began on 31 May 1989 when an ultimatum delivered to Ghazva demanding reforms within the government and the resignation of Tekhelei Olhan was refused, and ended on 26 November 1994 with the signature of the Treaty of Kupepelir following the capture of the last remaining military government building there.

Background
The Military Republic of Ghazva took control of the country in a coup d'état in 1973. The new government quickly became authoritarian, imposing a curfew for many resistant parts of the nation and introducing harsh penalties for speaking out against the government. An influx of refugees to Koxor in the late 1970s led to the Koxoriek government becoming aware of the many labour camps set up by Tekhelei Olhan's government. International sanctions were introduced from 1980, but these failed to deter the Military Republic as its import-based economy quickly became a self-sufficient one. Between 1984 and 1988, Olhan introduced a series of laws that became known as the "Tyrant's Code". These effectively transitioned the country back to feudalism, established far more severe punishments for crimes, introduced state censorship of all published works and made all forms of dissent illegal. An ultimatum was issued by the Koxoriek government in November 1988 for the Military Republic to loosen its laws on freedom of speech completely, but this was ignored. Diplomatic relations between the two nations were completely severed in January 1989. One final ultimatum was sent in May 1989, this time demanding the full resignation of Tekhelei Olhan, but it was again refused. On 21 May 1989, the Federal Council approved war with Ghazva, and the Koxoriek Army began to mobilise. Ten days later, the Alapet War began.

Ekhretoi Front
The war began officially on 31 May 1989, but except for a bombing raid over the Ghazvan city of Meghyel, no violence occurred in the first two weeks. On 13 June, an advance force of 50,000 Koxoriek troops crossed the border in the village of Dardagha, 230 km (143 miles) east of Meghyel. Within five days, were met by the full force - around 70,000 soldiers - of the Ghazvan 5th Army, which drove them back to the Sarul river eight miles west from Dardagha. A period of trench combat ensued, with the two armies firing on each other from either side of the river. Koxoriek reinforcements arrived and slowly managed to wear away at Ghazvan morale, eventually pushing them from their positions and driving them back towards Meghyel. The Battle of the Sarul ended after eleven days and 40,000 casualties, and gained the Koxoriez around 120 km (75 mi) of territory along the Ekhretoi Front.

On 30 June, The Koxoriek 2nd and 3rd Armies, with a combined total of around 200,000 troops, marched into the southern Ekhretoi peninsula. Making rapid progress under the command of the great general Naldur Khamensu, they defeated the unsuspecting Ghazvan 4th Army at the battles of Darneghem (5–6 July) and Urdamànkhe (10 July). While the 3rd Army settled in for a siege of Egher, the 4th Army continued north towards Meghyel. By the time the Ghazvan force entrenched near the city noticed the Koxoriek encirclement tactic, it was too late: the 4th Army reached the coast of Ailamel Bay before the Ghazvans could escape east. With enemies pushing in from every direction, the Ghazvans engaged in a desperate battle around the city of Meghyel. One of the fiercest battles of the war, it ultimately resulted in the surrender of the entirety of the 5th Army and the deaths of around 82,000 men. With Meghyel secured, the two Koxoriek armies proceeded to take the whole peninsula. The surrender of Egher on 2 August left the whole peninsula in Koxoriek hands, and with it the three largest Ghazvan airbases.

Marnur Front
By early August, over two months after the start of the war, the armed forces of both sides had been fully mobilised. With Agklanakh threatened, Ghazva sent around half of its remaining soldiers - 1.6 million troops - to the city to secure it against any Koxoriek attacks. Meanwhile, the Koxoriek Army's most advanced heavy machinery was moved to the front lines. Ghazvan bombers destroyed around a quarter of the large Maskhalur-class guns employed by Koxor, but Khamensu's forces retaliated by bombing the Ghazvan naval base in Daràth.