[Raellus]

This is great guys, thanks.

My next question is, what exactly is the 173rd being sent there to protect the refineries from?

The Kenyan military, although quite modest, would have been able to defend the refineries from the various marauder units listed in the first archive thread (I haven't looked at the other yet). A whole American brigade seems a bit like overkill if the threat is just brigands and such. Better to send in a couple of SF A-Teams to bolster the Kenyan military. It seems like an entire brigade could be put to better use somewhere else. When all the Soviets would have to do to deny the Kenyan refineries to NATO is nuke them, what's the point? I must be missing something.

Is there a pro-communist revolution/coup in Kenya in the late '90s or after the Twilight War begins? That would make the Soviets think twice about nuking the refineries. If so, using an entire brigade combat team to capture and secure them for NATO would make more sense. I'm just trying to make sense of all of this.