Overwhelming Air Power: The United Imperium Continues to Rule the Sky

As naval mining operations continue, it is time for the United Imperium to turn its attention skyward. The continued suffocation of trade cannot occur if airlift capabilites are intact for Rimskaya. Equally prescient, internal trade must be halted for maximum impact. Imperium and Coalition leadership have turned to continued aerial operations to bring any sort of supply movements in Rimskaya to a grinding halt. While the intial salve devastated the Rimskayan Navy and Air Force, current intelligence suggests that naturally, they are rebuilding their capabilites. With this in mind, leadership has come out with a plan to make sure that it is impossible to get back into the air or sea again.

The first step of this plan is to maintain continued air dominance over Floridian airspace. With approximately 23,000 active coalition aircraft running operations compared to 600 active Rimskayan aircraft running operations, it is expected that uncontested air dominance will hold. However, in order to make sure that Rimskaya cannot get more aircraft up in the air, several steps are being taken to eliminate any operating capability for enemy aerial units:

1. Enemy Air Defenses are the top priority. By striking at mobile and fixed SAM sites, using a combination of precision and saturated targeting procedures, we can levy devastation against any ground-based threats to our aerial oeprations. 
2. Enemy Air Bases; if they cannot launch aircraft, they cannot pose a threat to our aerial operations.
3. Mobile C2 & early warning; although we severely blinded NRR forces during the opening salvo, we will continue to make sure that forward and actionable intelligence becomes non-existent for NRR units.
4. Supply hubs and manufacturing bases; destroying the ability to replenish aircraft is the key to long term success in the region.

The second side of the coin comes in air to ground and air to sea operations. These are in a couple of phases:

1. A contingent of 2500 aircraft is to be sent to Pensacola in order to assist Legio in the bombardment of Pensacola through Close Air Support, Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses, and general Combat Air Patrol
2. Every major highway, supply hub, and transportation node in the Florida panhandle will be targeted by saturation airstrikes in order to cripple enemy mobility in that region.
3. Continued strikes will take place on high value targets (especially those related to logistics) deeper within Florida
4. Enemy drydocks will be targeted by precision airstrikes and naval missile bombardments so as to prevent rebuilding of enemy Navy.

The expectation is that with the continuation of these offensives, the Rimskayan miltiary will continue to be ground down, softening things up sufficiently for the eventual ground attack. In addition, continued cyberattacks and naval bombardments will decrease enemy morale as well as continue to batter their infrastructure. On the Imperium side, implementation of decentralized systems redundancy continues to go well, and the expectation is that the coalition will be far less susceptible to enemy sabotage or counterattacks.

On the diplomacy side, the NAP with Great Britain has been upgraded to an MDoAP. Holy Americana, Appaloosa and Nebelystan have all joined the coalition, continuing to skyrocket the size of the United Capital Coalition Forces well past the 225 city mark.