Twilight 2000: Countdown to Armageddon
by Richard A. Spake ©
2001: The Year in Review
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January 2001
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20 January - 14 February 2001. Shortly after George W. Bush (R-TX) was sworn into office as President of the United States, he appointed US Army General Jonathan L. Cummings as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff. GEN Cummings is a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran who had been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor due to his valorous conduct under fire during Operation Desert Storm.
February 2001
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March 2001
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April 2001
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9 April 2001. The Soviets launch a major spring offensive against the Peoples Republic of China in an attempt to capitalize on the early successes they had enjoyed during the start of the Sino-Soviet War. Unfortunately, the offensive known as Operation Red Willow was an utter disaster that forces the Kremlin to turn to their Warsaw Pact client states for additional military forces.
May 2001
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June 2001
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June 2001. The Soviet Union continues the full-scale mobilization of its armed forces, forcing its Warsaw Pact allies to follow suit and provide needed men and material for the war effort against the Peoples Republic of China.
July 2001
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September 2001
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11 September - 17 September 2001. After an extensive terrorist attack is barely avoided, the public outcry forces the Federal Government to establish the United States Department of Homeland Security. The FEMA, the United States Coast Guard and Territorial Guard all fall under the authority of the newly established federal department. The United States Department of Homeland Security is established by an act of Congress over the objections of President George W. Bush, who had only wanted to create a small agency that would have been known as the Office of Homeland Defense.
17 September 2001. The United States Department of Homeland Security is created in response to the demonstrations and riots held protesting the state of emergency preparedness, combined with the alarming amount of hostile forces around the world. The US Department of Homeland Security is tasked with a revamping of Civil Defense and FEMA preparedness for major disasters and any possible wartime national crisis.
October 2001
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November 2001
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November - December 2001. The East German NVA prepares to send one of its field armies containing its best military units to the Far East front in support of their Soviet allies along with all of its support elements, this is the largest contribution than any of the other Eastern Bloc Soviet client-states will make. The fact that the largest contribution was made by the smallest military forces in the Warsaw Pact, forces other Warsaw Pact states to promise to increase their contributions as soon as they are able. It also allows for the Soviets to approve that the East Germans can increase the size of the NVA. Unfortunately, this will only end up in allowing for the NVA to replace the losses of their finest military units.
December 2001
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15 December 2001. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics and Boeing Integrated Defense Systems release the new F-22 Stealth air superiority fighter for mass production for the war effort.
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Fuck being a hero. Do you know what you get for being a hero? Nothing! You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah blah blah, attaboy! You get divorced... Your wife can't remember your last name, your kids don't want to talk to you... You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me kid, nobody wants to be that guy. I do this because there is nobody else to do it right now. Believe me if there was somebody else to do it, I would let them do it. There's not, so I'm doing it.
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