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If You Want Peace, Prepare For War

by tranhdxrbntd
Equestria is fighting her first World War after the 2nd Industrial revolution. She hasn't fought a war in a while. Before his death, Discord enlists the help of several creatures that are all too familiar with the concept.

War. Noun. (1) : a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state.

"Soldiers are always preparing to fight the previous war" is a saying that is common amongst those of military profession. Equestria has not seen a war on her own soil in several hundred years. As such, would she be prepared for when such a thing happens? Of course not.

Battling the griffons and the minotaurs has been a challenge due to lack of experience. Fortunately, her armies adapted and started to hold her own. That was, until Tirek returned and aided in the fight to defeat Equestria. To keep his friends safe, Discord successfully defeated Tirek and sealed him away. The cost of fighting Tirek? Dying. Knowing that he would die, Discord summoned several creatures to protect his friends. These creatures, never seen before in Equestria, are very familiar with the concept of war.

This world has experienced their second industrial revolution and Equestria is at war, a World War, the first this world has seen. Equestria and her citizens have a lot to learn if they want to see the end of this conflict with their culture and way of life preserved.

Author's Note: I have deployed so updates won't exactly be plentiful. I'll definitely try to put them out but I'm pretty busy. Also, if you comment on my story, showing an error, I appreciate it. If you point them out, I will fix it and then delete your comment so there's not too much spam in the comments.

Author's Note V2: Deployment is done.

Author's Note V3: Gearing up for the next deployment, busy again.

Author's Note V4: Not deploying with unit, got run over by a car while walking

Author's Note V5: Major health problems, not car related, Medically discharged now.

Teen
Incomplete
Comedy
Sex
Adventure
Alternate Universe
Human
Gore
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Dark
 
SSMOA

235479 words: Estimated about 20 hours to read
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64 Chapters:

  1. Hopeless, For Now 2017-08-06 15:50:28 UTC
    1347
  2. There Is Nothing Good In War Except Its Ending 2017-08-10 00:12:40 UTC
    2010
  3. Only The Dead See The End Of War 2017-08-13 10:27:24 UTC
    3012
  4. War Does Not Determine Who is Right, Only Who is Left 2017-08-20 23:20:17 UTC
    1282
  5. War Isn't Fair, Take Every Advantage 2017-08-26 21:26:06 UTC
    2012
  6. Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You; Ask What You Can Do for Your Country 2017-08-30 14:28:21 UTC
    3518
  7. You Can Do Anything but Not Everything 2017-09-04 04:57:32 UTC
    1603
  8. I Am a Warrior and a Member of a Team 2017-09-10 03:23:09 UTC
    1275
  9. If We Don't End War, War Will End Us 2017-09-30 10:43:14 UTC
    3335
  10. Enemy Soldiers Are Not Always Acting with Evil Intentions 2017-10-07 14:04:59 UTC
    2260
  11. War Is Delightful for Those Who Haven't Experienced It 2017-10-21 16:21:21 UTC
    1804
  12. He Who Doesn't Fight, Has Already Lost 2017-11-18 09:37:39 UTC
    2070
  13. There Is Only One Thing Worse Than Fighting with Allies, and That Is Fighting Without Them! 2017-12-24 14:22:03 UTC
    2764
  14. War Is Not an Adventure It Is a Disease It Is like Typhus 2018-01-06 15:00:19 UTC
    1289
  15. First Contact 2018-01-20 14:13:37 UTC
    1503
  16. Alone We Can Do so Little, Together We Can Do so Much 2018-02-10 16:42:56 UTC
    5262
  17. War Isn't Hell, There Are No Innocent in Hell 2018-03-17 16:54:07 UTC
    2258
  18. War Is What Happens When Communication Fails 2018-04-29 14:38:33 UTC
    1009
  19. If War Is the Answer Then We Are Asking the Wrong Question 2018-09-09 20:04:17 UTC
    1280
  20. You Only See What I Choose to Show You 2018-12-16 23:35:00 UTC
    1042
  21. Schadenfreude 2019-01-20 18:55:12 UTC
    2783
  22. There Never Was a Good War or a Bad Peace 2019-04-13 19:28:08 UTC
    3037
  23. Better to Have and Not Need Than to Need and Not Have 2019-04-20 19:55:38 UTC
    2113
  24. War Is Mostly a Catalogue of Blunders 2019-08-18 18:37:53 UTC
    3055
  25. In the Midst of Chaos, There Is Opportunity 2019-10-12 15:31:49 UTC
    1526
  26. Fear the Old Man in a Profession Where Most Die Young 2019-11-03 02:56:45 UTC
    4309
  27. The Only Way to Swiftly End a War Is to Lose It 2019-11-10 12:44:53 UTC
    5525
  28. The More You Sweat in Training the Less You Bleed in Combat 2020-01-18 13:24:16 UTC
    1263
  29. Update: Still writing 2020-03-17 06:36:20 UTC
    87
  30. Plan for What Is Difficult While It Is Easy 2020-08-08 13:27:46 UTC
    1580
  31. The Enemy Invariably Attacks on Two Occasions: A. When You’re Ready for Them and B. When You’re Not Ready for Them. 2021-08-13 20:32:48 UTC
    1343
  32. Update: Will try to keep writing 2021-04-03 10:08:29 UTC
    265
  33. If You Are Short of Everything but the Enemy, You Are in the Combat Zone 2022-04-06 18:57:03 UTC
    5564
  34. War Is the Most Readily Available Form of Chaos 2022-05-21 11:32:21 UTC
    4736
  35. War Is Fear Cloaked in Courage 2022-07-28 10:56:38 UTC
    2320
  36. There Is No Glory in Battle Worth the Blood It Costs 2022-11-08 13:11:09 UTC
    1020
  37. I Know My Soldiers and I Will Always Place Their Needs Above My Own 2022-11-22 12:43:49 UTC
    1807
  38. The True Warrior Is Not Immune to Fear, He Fights in Spite of It 2022-12-11 13:07:38 UTC
    1765
  39. For He Who Has Shed His Blood With Me Shall Be My Brother 2022-12-12 08:43:53 UTC
    1539
  40. All’s Fare in Love and War 2022-12-17 04:54:16 UTC
    6142
  41. The Amateurs Discuss Tactics, the Professionals Discuss Logistics 2022-12-27 13:54:34 UTC
    4056
  42. War Is Organized Murder and Nothing Else 2023-05-20 17:57:54 UTC
    4883
  43. They Fought Together as Brothers in Arms; They Died Together and Now They Sleep Side by Side 2023-07-25 05:26:31 UTC
    4926
  44. Two Armies That Fight Each Other Is Like One Large Army That Commits Suicide 2023-10-09 07:53:57 UTC
    2526
  45. Life Went On. Death Went On. The War Went On 2023-10-24 13:03:47 UTC
    1759
  46. Your Heaviest Artillery Will Be Your Will to Live 2023-12-07 14:31:44 UTC
    2767
  47. Conflict Is the Price We Pay For a Deeper Understanding of Ourselves and Others 2024-01-08 13:20:39 UTC
    4026
  48. War Created Bizarre Allies, While Peace Itself Would Be Divisive 2024-01-14 08:15:54 UTC
    3258
  49. When a Man Makes Alliance With the Almighty, Giants Look Like Grasshoppers 2024-01-19 14:05:32 UTC
    3108
  50. The Allies We Gain by Victory Will Turn against Us Upon the Bare Whisper of Our Defeat 2024-01-27 21:08:47 UTC
    2319
  51. The More You Sweat in Peace, the Less You Bleed in War. 2024-02-02 15:58:56 UTC
    3111
  52. Friendship Is Like War, Easy To Start, Hard To Stop, Impossible To Forget 2024-02-16 17:27:53 UTC
    10147
  53. What Is Difficult In Training Will Become Easy In A Battle 2024-02-23 19:43:26 UTC
    10382
  54. Our Flag Does Not Fly Because The Wind Moves It. It Flies With The Last Breath Of Each Soldier Who Died Protecting It 2024-03-02 21:35:31 UTC
    9480
  55. The Tragedy Of War Is That It Uses Man's Best To Do Man's Worst 2024-03-09 18:39:46 UTC
    6007
  56. Make Friends, Not War 2024-03-16 17:09:11 UTC
    5087
  57. Friends Come & Go, But Battle Buddies Last Forever! 2024-04-07 13:44:08 UTC
    8841
  58. We Have Forged the Type of Bonds That Only Battle Brings 2024-04-27 16:24:28 UTC
    6591
  59. To Win Any Battle You Must Fight as if You Are Already Dead 2024-05-10 15:48:03 UTC
    7386
  60. A True Friend Is Like a Soldier That Never Abandons His Partner Alone in the Battlefield · 2024-06-01 16:05:25 UTC
    7282
  61. The Best Preparation for the Future Is to Live as if There Were None 2024-06-13 16:08:35 UTC
    10112
  62. An Efficient Bureaucracy Is the Greatest Threat to Liberty 2024-07-27 14:15:51 UTC
    11085
  63. For Those I Love I Will Sacrifice 2024-09-14 13:56:00 UTC
    10018
  64. War Is Chaos 2024-11-17 21:30:04 UTC
    2608