Editing SUPERS RED Castles In The Sand/Setting Information (section)

== NORTH AFRICA WORLD WAR II ==
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Map shows control of geographic regions circa 1940. The campaign will start in April 1941.

The campaign could see action/scenes set Syria, Trans Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Lybia, and Tunisa.
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=== EGYPT ===
* Nominally independent since 1922
* Under British occupation and influence since 1882 after the Orabi Revolt
* Bound by treaty with the UK to house British troops
* But declared neutrality with regard to the war
* Fierce Egyptian nationalist opposition to British involvement in Egypt
* Government currently lead by King Farouk, and parliament, led by Prime Minister Hussein Sirri Pasha, appointed to appease British demands
* General Henry Maitland Wilson commands Egyptian military in the Western Desert

==== ALEXANDRIA ====
Base of British operations in 1941, acts as a safe harbour, air base, and supply point for British operations across North Africa.

Significant amount of clandestine operations - especially from German, Italian, Spanish, and English agents seeking historical and archeaological information on Atlantis.

==== CARIO ====
Located at the head of the Nile River, Cairo is a cosmopolitan city, and the largest city in 1941 in the Arab world and Africa. Established in its current incarnation as a capital by the Fatimid dynasty in 986AD.

Cairo has an impressive citadel, a minaret filled skyline, and is close to the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx at Giza.

Especially surrounding the Egyptian Museum, and related antiquities dealers and the like, there is significant clandestine operations happening in Cairo. Oft times, this activity breaks out into open combat in Cairo (ulnike Alexandria, where the heavy British presence keeps outright combat to a minimum).
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=== LYBIA ===
italy gained influence in North Africa from the Ottoman Empire after the Italo-Turkish War of 1911 to 1912. In 1934, Italy consolidated its three North African colonies of Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, and Fezzan into a single entity of Italian Libya.

In 1940, the British Operation Compass destoryed the Italian 10th Army, and gave significant control of the Lybian desert to the British. In early 1941, Germany sent in fresh troops and equipment, the  Afrika Korps, under command of General Erwin Rommel. Rommel's Operation Sonnenblume pushed the British back behind the Egyptian border, and recaptured all of Lybia save for the port city of Tobruk.

==== TOBRUK ====
Tobruk, port, northeastern Libya. It was the site of Antipyrgos, an ancient Greek agricultural colony, and thereafter a Roman fortress guarding the Cyrenaican frontier. The town later became a way station on the coastal caravan route.

At the start of the campaign, Tobruk is currently under siege by the Afrika Korps. There's a garrison of British and Australian troops holding Tobruk currently, supported by British navy and British and independent blockade runners in the Medeterranian Sea.
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=== TRANS JORDAN ===
Effectively created by a combination of the Conference of San Remo in 1922, and the League of Nations confirming the Palestine Mandate in 1925, Trans Jordan is a nominally independent nation ruled by Emir Abdullah.

In reality, Trans Jordan relies heavily on British monetary and military support, and as of the campaign start date is considered to be a fully British controlled vasall state in function, if not legally.
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=== SYRIA ===
Syria was part of the Turkish Empire until 1918. The French Army entered Syria in 1922 and expelled the Arab leader Emir Feisal. France claimed that Syria fell into its sphere of influence as defined in the Sykes-Picot agreement.

The Syrians resented the presence of French troops and the Druse Insurrection (1925-27) forced them to withdraw from the capital, Damascus. Negotiations took place and in 1939 the French government promised Syria her independence.

The French Vichy government maintains signficant military presence in Syria, and as of the campaign start, is considered to effectively control Syria. Behind the scenes, the Vichy government is supported in this effort with money and military might by Germany.
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=== TUNISA ===
A French colonial possession since 1881, though nominally independent and under the rule of the Bey government. Significant Vichy and Gernman forces are stationed in Tunisia at the start of the campaign.
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