Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-14359537-20131008091945

SajuukKhar wrote: The WGC only forces The Empire to allow Thalmor Justiciars into thier land to ensure the ban on Talos worship is being enforced, nowhere does it stipulate the Empire has to allow large numbers of AD solider into its provinces.

Furthermore, with no clear reason to believe the Talos ban isn't being enforced, The Thalmor have no power to pressure The empire into allowing them in calm areas.

On top of that, the AD wouldn't push The Empire to do so, thus possibly triggering another war too early. While sending large numbers of Thalmor is going to be problematic for the elves, they don't necessarily need to have a batallion of soldiers in a province to give them a huge advantage in an ensuing war. There are many ways of crippling their enemy with just a small force: assasinating a key figure in the province, such as a general or a governor; causing unrest (which they did in skyrim by screwing up Ulfric's mind, i think) and gathering intelligence. Any one of these things will be enourmously helpful in an invasion.

You were right that the Thalmor can't send over a brigade or a batallion, but let me just ask: why do they need to?