Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-24384232-20141009000645/@comment-2089817-20141009054354

Long term goal, Kasuga will want to crush Kirigakure. And conquer their land, under the pretense of "land unification". They are ideal after all, especially since as a base of operations, they work perfectly for the goal of crushing Black Crown. Likening it to chess, one would then say that you'd want to go after the smaller villages first to build up land and military ownership before attempting to take them on. But while tactics can be likened to chess, it isn't as simple as all that. Kirigakure is not limited in their movements, after all. Not only do they have piracy militia, meaning they control the waters, but they are known for having a remarkable team of Hunter-Nins. Without a doubt, they would have operatives in other countries and if they caught word of Konoha attempting to rally support to crush them, they would not only be aware of their plans but also have the advantage of time to prepare. If given time to prepare, I daresay Kiri is a stronghold that can't be breached. So there in lies the problem. In order to prevent this, I'd say one of our first moves be to slip in operatives from Konoha into Kiri; little by little, using two different methods. The first being "fake" missing-nins, that will be ordered, just as Itachi was ordered, to leave the village under the guise of betrayal. And the second, being the ANBU sent to "capture" them. However, this is all a set up. A means of slowly tying in missing-nins that claim hate of Konoha and have chosen to ally with another village, and also spies that claim to be supporting Kiri in "protecting" them from "dangerous missing-nins". Of course, some will make it in, and some will not succeed in infiltrating successfully, but the point behind these two different parties is to allow the both of them to cover the flaws in each other's false stories, meaning that at least a handful will succeed in infiltration.

And little by little, we can begin the act of pushing other villages to attack other villages, so as to weaken them and force them into submission. All the while, those operatives that succeeded in infiltration, they will serve to jumble up the information gathered by Kiri's true operatives so as to prevent Kiri from becoming any the wiser about Konoha's true plans. As for Black Crown, I want to use a similar method in that we coerce another nation to charge them as a spearhead. And then Konoha will make their move at the opportune moment to force them out of their base, thus conquering the Land of Earth, and from there, it'll be easy pickings to crush them utilizing Kirigakure and the Land of Water's resources to finish the job.

That's some ideas I have, anyways.