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Whoever defends will win, cause its always easier to fight on home turf and the attacker has to ship food, soldiers and other important supplies over for the war, which are easily cut off. Its easy to imagine starving tamrielic forces dying on akavir, but its also easy to imagine starving akaviri forces dying of hunger and lack of ammunition.

Sun Tzu's art of war states that it takes double the amount of men to make an attack and half that to defend. So, the question is not who would win, but who attacks and so loses. Unless the Akaviri forces were really so powerful to the extent that if they fought a war by proxy, the akaviri forces completely obliterate the tamrielic forces overnight or vice versa, invasion is a stupid idea and the losing one.