Jackson Campaign

The Jackson Campaign was the brainchild of career military strategist Joseph Jackson, a graduate of Gudersnipe School who made it his mission to win as many wars as possible without injuring a single person.

Opponents

The enemy in the Jackson Campaign was the Hatari Republic, a small and otherwise inconsequential dictatorship ran by a very insane leader. The head of the "republic" had spent most of his time in power starving the common peasant while building up a massive army. He then began simply butchering his own people when they tried to revolt, and finally prepared to launch a military campaign against his neighbors.

The "War"

The Foundation intervened, sending troops to defend the boarders and essential lock the Hatarins in, but that wasn't going to be enough. Open conflict was inevitable, and the war was projected to take two years and cost tens of thousands of lives. Worse still, for each Foundation soldier lost, the strategists calculated roughly five Hatarin civilians would die. The end result was, inevitably, the the complete distruction of the Hatari Republic]], but at an unacceptable cost. The decision was made to employ stratigic weaponry, when the Hatarin's own neighbors intervened and demanded the Foundation find another solution. As the insane dictator was obviously not about to back down, higher called in it's most unconventional man.

The Strategy

Jackson proposed a most unusual ploy: pay the impovrished Hatarins to throw the war. Leaflets were air-dropped all over the country offering any solider who defected citizenship in the Gudersnipe Foundation, relocation, and the equivalant of roughly one years' wages. There were many takers amongst the lower echlons of the soldier class, which consisted primarily of young, single men. However, those that did defect reported that the Foundation could find many more takers if they opened the program up to soldier's families.

But Jackson took it a step further, opening the offer up to anyone at all in the republic. Better still, it was based on a per-person count; meaning a family of five defecting would recieve the equivalant of five years' wages. That opened the floodgates, and most of the lower-class abandoned the country all together. Farmers were the biggest takers, many of whom were hit the hardest by the regime's practices.

With the majority of the country now empty and the food supply in grave jeapordy, Jackson began a new round of lieflets, this time promising two years' wages and a plot of land to anyone willing to leave(though a great many of the farmers to defect earlier had also been given land to develop). An extra years' wages would go to anyone with useful inteligence.

By the end of the conflict, Jackson's program was offering five years' wages per defector, large plots of land, and various other perks to anyone willing to simply walk out of the country and never return. This effort produced the most takers, and within seven months of it's inspetion, Jackson's plan had cleared out over 90% of the country. The remainder consisted of die-hard loyalists and high-ranking military officers, as well as the wealthy and elite. The backbone of the country was broken, there were no more fighting men, and the Foundation's soldiers had only to walk in a seize control.

The end result was the same: the Hatari Replublic was completely obliterated. However, Jackson did it without firing a single shot or ending a single life. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the Hatarin's ruling regime did execute some individuals trying to defect, but over all very few lives were lost.

Legacy

The Jackson Campaign became known as the Jackson Strategy; and though it was never again employed on a similar scale, the fact that it did work and was viable made it a plausable system for "fighting" a country.