Third World War

The Third World War, also labelled World War III, abbreviated WW3 or WWIII, was a that took place from 1954 to 1958. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations, including all the great and most of the secondary powers of the era. It was composed of two military alliances which were established in the leadup to the Second World War, generally referred to as the Concert and the Alliance nations, the former of which was composed primarily of the remaining members of the Concert of Nations established with the First Grana Accords, and the latter of which arose in defiance of the international order and defeated the Concert nations in the Second World War. It was a that was comprised of [NUMBER] national militaries with a combined manpower of well over [VERY HIGH NUMBER], the major participants, even moreso than in the prior global conflicts, threw the entire industrial, economic, and scientific resources and capacities into the, blurring the lines between what constituted military and civilian activity to near irrelevance. It was a watershed moment in the evolution of warfare, seeing aerial combat between jet aircraft on a massive scale, the first uses of computing networks in military activity through the Teleri Project, and, alongside the last major cavalry engagements and final generation of post-dreadnaught battleships, which had generally been overshadowed by aircraft carriers and smaller, more mobile navies by the end of the war. To this day, it was the deadliest war in human history, seeing [ASTRONOMICAL LOSSES] in casualties, [PERCENTAGE] of which were civilians. While interwar advances in medicine and agricultural technology had reduced the number of deaths caused by disease and starvation, and even losses from, the prevalence of and  combat during and peripheral to the main theaters of the war resulted in several thousand more casualties, some of which are not fully recognized as being losses as a result of the Third World War, a controversial topic to this day.

Historians dispute the actual start date of the conflict, but the main two generally accepted dates revolve around the Tretland Nuclear Crisis beginning on 19 June 1954 and its aftermath, leading to the launch of Operation Maeve on 3 July by Ordrey and the activation of the Teleri Network among the Concert nations in the fastest mass-mobilization of military resources in history. Ordrish President Tecla d'Caddour's address to Alutra via an elaborate broadcast hijacking displayed the blur between military and civilian lines at the outset of Operation Maeve, announcing the deployment of Ordrish bombers and artillery to directly attack Salia and Tretland only minutes in advance of their arrival across the continent. This initial offensive concluded with the retaking and occupation of Akerland by Gladomyr and the dismantling of the Tretuish State by Ordrey and Ecoraland. In addition, it saw considerable devastation of Salian coastal infrastructure and a substantial weakening of the WW2-era Continental Wall alike. Like the Second World War, the East Alutran Theater was primarily engaged through aerial combat and espionage, with a handful of naval engagements, notably including the [BATTLE NAME] which saw a contingent of the [NATION] Fleet be decimated by the use of nuclear weapons.

World War III utterly upended the nature of international politics, ending not just the post-WW2 order but the final vestiges of the conflicts that arose out of the New Peace of 1929. The Concert of Nations was completely disbanded, accompanied by the chartering of the much less interventionist World Forum and the drafting or revision of much more comprehensive, but limited in the name of preventing future military conflicts and fostering greater international cooperation, most importantly by the enactment of the first  treaties and the development of international mutual aid programs to convert wartime military industry and technology to civilian uses. In a historically unprecedented move, the successor-governments of the postwar [MAJOR ALLIANCE POWERS] were given permanent seats on the Executive Committee of the World Forum alongside their former belligerents. The widespread devastation caused by the war additionally resulted in the last major wave of, beginning a period of history known as the Springtime of Nations. As national economies recovered and expanded, it also led to a phase of heightened political activism and radicalization throughout many nations, laying the groundwork for future upheavals in the world order later in the 20th Century.

Osamia
Shortly after the beginning of WWIII in Alutra, a civil war begins in Osamia as the military opposed the Osamian Federation and it began destroying itself. The military regime sidef with Riyude and other concert powers while the Federation pleaded with Salia to give support. The civil war became a proxy conflict for the Alutran war, with the Federation being supported by the Salian alliance, and the military regime (later royalists) being supported by the concert powers.