Tovlis war

The Tovlis war was an armed conflict between the Federal Republic of Samotkhe and the Imperial federation of Gradinska from 2000 to 2006. the causes of this conflict were related to the bad treatment of ethnic Gradinskans in Samotkhe. The war was a textbook victory for Gradinska whose use of mobility and irregular warfare allowed it to beat two larger and technically superior armies.

Gradinskan revanchism
After the 1982 Gradinskan crisis, the Gradinskan economy had tripled in size as wealth redistribution had created a flourishing local market for domestic goods. This boom gave Gradinska government the confidence to pursue a revanchist foreign policy in securing of its ethnic minorities. It first displayed this policy during the Rov-Zap separation where it leveraged military support for the return of the black isles from the newly formed Rovsnoska. the increase also allowed for a large increase in military expenditure which significantly increased the capability of the Gradinskan army by 2000.

Establishment of Gradinskan sleeper cells
by December 1999 Gradinska had intelligence circles had infiltrated the local Gradinskan populations in Samotkth and began arming resistance groups

Excersize long reach and the February Protests
On 3/2/2000 the Gradinskan military conducted a large scale, week-long, a military exercise in the south-west planes than involved the 7th and 3rd corps. At the same time protests against the suppression of Christianity began in Slovagrad on Monday. originally peaceful the protest quickly turned violent and by Thursday night over 200,000 protests had taken to the streets, with local police forces besieged Samotkthe president called in the local army units to crush the riots.

conflict
by sunset on Friday the 8th the rioters had taken control of the city centre and the outer suburbs