Interlude
Some clarification about the campaign might be in order for who might be interested in following this thread.
We are a group of military buffs interested in war/role gaming a vast conflict in our modern era.
Even though the Geopolitical premises of this campaign are certainly not entirely realistic, we are trying and will try to portray the realistic consequences of such a devastating occurrence, with particular emphasis on the territory of the United States of America. At the same time we will try to have as much fun as we can, being this a game and not an academic project.
Nevertheless, we have a couple of participants in this game who are supposed to make it very interesting for the gaming group, and hopefully for the audience of this thread if there is one. The Game Master has a working experience of five years in Bosnia Herzegovina between 1991 and 1995 during the Former Yugoslavia Civil War, while one of the players is a PhD in contemporary history; specialization History of United States Culture and Society.
This campaign will be mainly focused in the United States of America. The game master is using a technique of “progressive induced awareness” about what generated the conflict depicted in the campaign. The players started by knowing nothing other than their units had been activated for an invasion of the U.S.
The rationale of this “ignorance of the events” is that actually the crises has not been the result an escalation of political tension debouching into an armed conflict, but rather a sudden and secretly planned military campaign against the hegemonic power emerging from the cold war.
The only available data to the players before the beginning of the campaign were that the European Union and NATO did not exist anymore. The first one had been substituted by a federation (actually a confederation) formed by Germany, France, Benelux countries and Italy, and the second one, simply dissolved in 1997.
The invasion of the United States of America by a huge coalition of “objectors” to the international order emerging from “the end of history” to quote Fukuyama, began at the end of November 1999 (Thanks Giving Holiday) with a devastating attack to all the major facilities of the U.S. Navy, by the entire pool of special naval forces available to the World Coalition; objective, the destruction of the American Navy in port: tactically a massive repetition on a huge scale of the attacks by Italian human torpedoes on the British Mediterranean Bases during WWII; strategically, a giant repetition of Pearl Harbor, but with proportionally less waste of American lives, being the attacks surgical sneaky events.
At the price of practically the annihilation of the World Coalition naval Special Forces, a sufficient degradation of American Naval Power was achieved to make an invasion by sea possible.
The rest of the strategic and operational justifications for the establishment of beachheads on the continental Unites States are: the simultaneous assault by several major military powers all around the territory of the United States, with the attacks coming from multiple directions and with the help of a consistent strategic surprise.
Countries are actively engaged in the planned operation to subdue the United States to a new international order other than the “New American Century”:
THE WORLD COALITION formed by:
The European Federation (Italy, Germany, France Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg)
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus
China
Mexico
Cuba
Countries that intervened in defense of the United States, and are currently engaged in various degrees of military operations against the World Coalition:
Japan
United Kingdom
Canada
Neutral countries, but inclined to support the United States
Israel
Pakistan
South Africa
Korea (unified since 1996)
Taiwan
Ethiopia
Vietnam
Australia
New Zealand
Spain
Portugal
Brazil
Neutral countries, but inclined to support the World Coalition
Arab Countries in general (with exceptions) with various degrees of support for the World Coalition. Examples range from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya (very high support), to Oman, Kuwait Morocco (very low support)
All the rest, for now, are neutral and shocked by the magnitude of the events and by the degree of strategic surprise.
There are more countries which would be inclined to sympathize with the United States, but do not declare it officially for fear of powerful neighbors at war with the U.S. Examples are Poland, The Baltic States, Northern Europe countries, Hungary, Slovenia/Croatia/Bosnia and some others.
Like I said, the object of exploration of this campaign is a global war raging (for the first time in history) on the very homeland territory of the United States, at least at the beginning. Main focus will be the interaction of the American population as a whole, included of course the military, with such a cataclysmic event.
The followers of this thread are invited to comment, suggest, add, and subtract/criticize what they find inappropriate to the premises of the campaign.
Greetings
ambrafoxtrot
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