Operation GALAHAD
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Overview
..an elaborate shell game in which i secretly massed troops on the Capellan border by parading them up and down in front of hundreds of holocams Prince Hanse Davion
Introduction
Until Operation Galahad, the Peace Proposal between Hanse Davion and Katrina Steiner had done little except exchange military intelligence about the Draconis Combine. In 3024 on the Commonwealth world of New Earth, military forces from both sides engaged in maneuvers known as the Alliance Games. Three battalions of Commonwealth troops, one from each branch of infantry, armor and 'Mechs from the Tenth Lyran Guards, faced off against three similar battalions from the Federated Suns. The Federated Suns' forces won consistently, leading many LCAF officers to change their fighting styles. Though some were sufficiently embarrassed by their poor performance to reject "Davion Changes" out of hand, strong backing from the Archon and from General of the Armies Edward Regis convinced most of the LCAF of the merits of Davion military Doctrine.
War Games: Operation Galahad
Despite the friction between the two realm's armed forces, Prince Hanse saw enough promise in the LCAF to step up his plans. In 3026 he launched operation Galahad, a series of war games involving ten 'Mech regiments and one hundred infantry and armor regiments of the armed forces of the Federated Suns. Conducted in the Draconis and Capellan Marches of the federated suns, the stated purpose of the exercise was 'to increase our vigilance by rehearsing defensive troop movements so that if one of our enemies dares attack us, we can make a devastating retaliation.' The sheer scale of them violated almost every tenet of current military thinking in the inner sphere, which held that engagements much larger then company against company was wasteful of men and materiel. No one routinely pitted regiments against each other, yet that was exactly what type of combat Davion was preparing for.
Response to Galahad
While publicly dismissing the maneuvers as empty posturing, House Kurita and Liao both purt their militarizes on full alert.