I see them as bringing them back for a military reason. They could have left them in Europe and have them continue to fight with the Soviets.
However the problem is that MilGov has Mexican and Soviet forces in control of a lot of the American Southwest. The forces they have there can hold them but cant take anything back. And there isnt anything left in the US to reinforce them.
So where can they get troops? Not from CENTCOM - whats there is needed there to keep what little oil they are getting from overseas going. And not from Kenya - the small forces there are needed to keep the refinery going that is essential for CENTCOM.
And Korea is a long way off plus there isnt that much there.
But Europe has a lot of trained troops - in fact most of what is left of the pre-war Army is there. And really they dont need the tanks that they brought to Europe.
Mexico doesnt have much in the way of AFV's left and the Soviets are out of fuel. So even if all they bring home is the men and some limited weapons its enough to be able to get the advantage they need to retake Texas and the Southwest.
As for logistics - you arent talkign about moving a huge army of tanks, APC's, etc.. - you are talking about moving 23,000 men at most and a very small assortment of vehicles - which can be done with a few coal fired ships or a few coal fired trains. And they would want to move them out of VA anyway - thats a lot of new mouths to feed in one area. But spread over northern Texas and Louisiana and Oklahoma - not as much.
it would be one thing if they had to move all the stuff of a modern army - but in reality what they are moving is mostly men - and a lot of the movement will be by shoe leather or horse drawn cart.
As opposed to those who wrote the game I dont see the US military as being dumb or foolish - you dont give up hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles for no good reason when you have no way to replace them for years if not decades. Let alone all the planes, helos, artillery pieces, etc.. they abandoned.
They brought them home to use them as soldiers to fight the war at home and win it. And that is how in my universe they were used.
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