Aerugo war

The Aerugo border war is a war that is mostly in Amestris's favor because of Amestris's sheer military size. Aerugo is proving to be stubborn though, and is constanly using most of its army to continue to hold off Amestris. This war has lasted longer than the Creta Border War and has been much more destructive, mainly in Aerugoian lands.

The war began because Amestris took the town of Fotset as well as a strip of Aerugo's borders. This was seen as an insult at first by the Aerugo Royal Family. Aerugo then brought in heavy amounts of men, not knowing that it was playing exactly into Amestris' plan. Amestris slaughtered the Aerugo forces easily with their superior military technology, sheer amount of Men, and powerful alchemy. All of South City quickly turned into an uproar and South Headquarters sent out most of its forces. These forces ripped through Aerugo's and charged deeper into Aerugo's lands. Aerugo sent over half of their military to stop the purge and was successful inpushing Amestris back to an Aerugo border town. Because of this, Southern Amestris begin losing soldiers, population, and influence in the goverment. Southern Amestris stopped helping to exterminate Ishvalans in order to focus on the Aerugo war by sending in its alchemists. This was ineffective, and Amestris' forces were slowly pushed back into Fotset.

Currently, Amestris' Southern forces are fightning hard against Aerugo and are being reinforced by Central city with tanks and troops alike. The East is managing to spare a small amount of troops as well. Amestris is slowly gaining ground because their military technololgy, alchemy, elite soldiers, and superior numbers. Once Aerugo has been completely pushed back into it's land, Amestris plans on attempting to conquer more of the country.

The Aerugo border war is somewhat similar to WWI, where Italy, once part of the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy) turned against it's allies and fought with the Triple Entente (United Kingdom, France, Russia). Italy notably did poorly at first, having a weaker military, and fighting in poor enviornments, similar to the Aerugo border war. However, Italy eventually pulled off victory, beating Austria-Hungary singlehandedly. What does this say about the future of Amestris?

King Bradley is ordering many lives into this border war because the Homunculus wish to expand Amestris and, by doing so, increase the size of their Nationwide Transmutation Circle.