Ok, there's an interesting idea. You're postulating that my declaration of war was intercepted, so it never reached them, but I was at war as far as my guys were concerned but they were not? That seems like a plausible funky result of the interplay between comms intercepts and treaty declarations...but, still, as Geo says, once combat begins, shouldn't they at least defend themselves? 
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				Suicide Junkie said: 
The treaty status could be a key symptom. 
 
Perhaps the declaration of war was hit by a comm interception intel op or something, so they were only half at war...  
			
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