A Cause For War

At the dawn of the next day, Alexandros awoke in his bedchambers. He quickly climbed out of his covers and got dressed in a silk robe, where he proceeded to take a bath. Once finished, he had his breakfast while looking at the morning paper. 

The immediate headline alerted the man to something which was taking place in his own backyard. As his father had promised, A Carrier Strike Group, whose flagship was one of the new super-carriers, now sat in the Persian Gulf, waiting for the signal to launch an attack on the Arab sultanates which neighbored the Byzantine Empire.

However, Alexandros would not simply start a war for the sake of conquest without a proper reason for doing so. After all, there was a certain degree of infamy which followed war mongers, which was a stigma that he wished to avoid.