Operation Cannibal

Operation: Cannibal, also known as the Battle of Hoffnung, was an Allied bombing run on the industrial city of Hoffnung to limit Belka's weapons capability.

Prelude
Many south Belkan towns were starting to grow weary of the war, and some surrendered to the Allied Forces. Hoffnung, however, had not surrendered; it was vital to Belka's war effort. The Allied Forces decided that Belka's ability to counter-attack had to be pummeled to the ground, and prepared for a bombing attack on Hoffnung.

Summary
The operation began on June 1st, with bombers and Allied support squadrons, including the Galm Team, heading into Hoffnung. When the support squadrons had entered the airspace, the bombing had already started. However, the pilots could observe that the bombers were not being precise; they were "just tossing bombs all over the place." Nonetheless, the pilots carried on with the operation and destroyed all anti-air units on the ground.

During this part of the operation, Belka's ground troops were ordered to give up Hoffnung; however, they were also ordered to destroy everything, preventing the Allied Forces from using anything in the city, as part of a scorched earth policy that they had put in place. They set fire to the entire city on their way out and abandoned it.

Even though this airspace was under Allied control, Belka's air force showed up with the intent on shooting down the bombers, regardless of the ground troops' retreat. They managed to shoot down one bomber before the Galm Team came back to support them. All of the air units were destroyed.

Result
This was a large victory for the Allies. Without Hoffnung, Belka had very few war production facilities left; this greatly reduced their ability to counter-attack against the Allied Forces. However, Belka's scorched earth policy prevented the Allies from actually being able to use anything in Hoffnung, but this was merely a minor setback.

Trivia

 * "Hoffnung" is German for "hope". The fall of Hoffnung thus symbolizes Belka's hope becoming despair.
 * The scorched earth policy used on Hoffnung is similar to the Russian scorched earth policy in WWII. Whenever the Russians retreated, they destroyed everything the Nazis could use. Later in the war, the Germans did this (most notably in destroying the bridges over the Rhine river), but failed to make it as quick and effective as the Russians.
 * This operation is likely based off of the real-life World War II Dresden firebombings of 1944.
 * Curiously, there is a similarly-spelled city: Dresdene, in southern Yuktobania.