User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-4237253-20130506043658/@comment-7371906-20130506124730

Well for one they have to get through the Empire fist because claiming Skirim first offers no military advantage because claiming land at the opposite side of the continent surrounded by three of your hostile enemies is a waste of soldiers and time also immediately eliminates any form of surprise from your other enemies because there is just no way they can send a battalion large enough to conquer Skyrim in the first attack without being spotted right away from your other enemies. Skyrim gets a geological advantage against the Dominion by being extremely far away and having a very hostile climate where half of its terrain is in a state of permanent winter and to cross to Skyrim they have to go to cyrodiil and through the Jerall mountains just to get to the south side of Skyrim or by see passing Hammerfell which they are having a war against and High Rock which is a Empire controlled province and those group of rag-tag guerrillas were composed mostly of veteran Imperial soldiers from the first Great War they seem to have a better chance of defending Skyrim from the Dominion than Hammerfell did.