Sorland War

The Sorland War (Norsk: Sørlandskrig) was a conflict fought in 1975 following a Liaotian intervention in ongoing civil unrest in the Ringeriker colonial possession of Sorland.

Prelude
In the late 1960s Sorland experienced a revolution in the agriculture sector with the discovery that the could be made suitable for industrial crops by adding the correct mix of Lime and Phosphorus, this led the government of Ringerike to establish large scale farming operations, often seizing land from local farmers to do so, this led to the rapid growth of a popular independence movement, which was covertly supported by the Liaotian Government with the view to incorporating the territory post independence, this was based on the assumption that Sorland would struggle to maintain it's relatively high living standard as an independent nation, there were however significant portions of the population that would remain loyal to the Ringeriker Crown.

Unrest began in 1974 with the vandalism and sabotage of government property, notably the burning of large areas of the new crops, this eventually led to the deployment of a number of non-colonial troops to maintain the security of the operations. This was seen by many in Sorland as an attempt to demonstrate and exert outside force to quell unrest, which inspired the first direct armed action taken by the independence movement. Over the next year ambushes and bombings became increasingly frequent, however the decision was made to involve mostly colonial troops in the operations against them, as it was feared larger troop deployments brought the risk of provoking a full scale rebellion.

Ringeriker ORBAT, 1 June 1975
At the outbreak of the War, Ringeriker troops in Sorland consisted mostly of colonial units and the by the reinforced rotational garrison force that had been a long standing presence in the Colony, these were: