wellspring/07-military/07-military.md

WS Military

War secrets:

[Apologia] NB: this section's naming is deliberate. Only war related information may be made secret.

All information deemed to be a war secret shall accompanying justification and shall clearly state under what conditions it shall no longer be in need of secrecy.

No information shall be deemed classified upon a condition of the passing of time (e.g.: "99 years must pass" is invalid). Temporal conditions upon war secrets shall be null and void. Every condition shall clearly state a constraint which points to a specific, measurable, trackable reason for secrecy.

There shall be a review on the last day of each 3rd month of all war secrets by the Defense branch and the Judiciary in a process open to public attendance (with seats sold on the Externality Auction), where each current war secret's secrecy conditions (but not the content of the secret) will be read openly. Should a particular item's conditions for secrecy no longer apply, it shall be made public through the Informative branch within 72 hours.

If a conagent is found guilty of leaking secret information, its owner (or it itself, if it is an indepagent) shall become an outlaw after 3 hours.

Reasons for war

Guiding principles:

War shall be waged solely for the preservation of the persons and property of WS's residents and territory, and no further. Wars of outrage over immoral actions taken by other polities shall not be the concern of Utopia. WS shall have no openly declared military alliances - all military alliances shall be phrased as casus belli assets under WS's protection.

Casus belli

A WS polity shall declare and openly publish the exact assets (including diplomatic personnel, etc) which it considers to be casus belli, as well as an optional minimum response which any aggressor can expect to face. No maximum response shall be published: WS reserves the right to escalate its responses to any extent it deems necessary to preserve the private property of its residents.

In cases where a casus belli is an asset in a foreign polity:

• WS shall phrase the casus belli as the specific asset itself, and not as the government of the foreign political entity.
• Under extremely well-considered circumstances, WS may unilaterally declare strategic "red line" casus belli on very well-defined, neighbouring foreign assets if a particular enemy is known to be an expansionist power which has demonstrated that it will eventually become a clear and present danger, if allowed to capture those foreign assets.

[Apologia]: I.e, WS shall not extend an umbrella of protection over any foreign political entity. If WS enters into a diplomatic agreement in order to gain access to a maritime route for war readiness, for example, the casus belli shall be the maritime route, and not the foreign government which exercises dominion over the route.

[Apologia]: If other polities wish to gain an indirect umbrella of protection from WS, they are free to strategically contract out access to some valuable asset to the WS government, and thereby gain WS interest in protecting that particular asset as casus belli.

Peaceful expansion

WS polities may accept solicitations from indepagents in neighbouring polities for the purchase of natural resources which are owned by such indepagents, so as to allow peaceful expansion. Such purchases shall be accompanied by a formal naturalization of the seller to be a WS citizen.

• All such purchases shall only occur if diplomatically agreed to by the government of the neighbouring polity.
• After being purchased all such natural resources shall be the same as all other natureses under the jurisdiction of WS, and shall form a normal part of the casus belli of WS.

It follows that Utopia shall not accept such solicitations for purchase from persons whose natures is indefensible with Utopia's military capabilities in the present and for a reasonably foreseeable future.