[raketenjagdpanzer]

Soften up the east and west coasts with EMP strikes, hit port facilities up and down the Mississippi with low-yield ground bursts, same for dams along the TVA waterways, paste DC/Maryland with a high-low strike from subs like just offshore. Just blow Cheyenne mountain off the face of the earth.

Day 2, (assuming I'm the Russians) come in airborne and seaborne from Venezuela and Cuba, Sea/land down the PCH through Alaska and Canada, Feint the north sea fleet off Newf. and Maine to try and draw out the North Atlantic fleet, then hit them with nuc-tipped ASMs and torpedos.

Out west, hit Midway and Guam (oh and while I'm thinking about it, pretty much erase Diego Garcia with a tight 10mt pattern, maybe 2 or 3). Leave Hawaii untouched, but on the same day I'm doing the trick in the North Atlantic have an equal weight force moving strongly towards Hawaii and the West Coast again to sucker out the fleet(s) and smash them.

D+3 heavy conventional bombardment (yes) of transportation hubs across the CONUS while troops are moving down. Well prior to this I'd have compiled extremely detailed maps of alternate routes (like, for Central Florida, plans to move up 17/92 rather than I-4; smash I-4 out of existence in downtown Orlando, at Daytona and Tampa), rely HEAVILY on Airdrop.

Offer the Mexicans big hunks of the Southwest in exchange for basing options, play on the whole "the US hates brown people" angle, maybe use the Cubans and Venezuelans as intermediaries to secure that, for the big land push.

Despite a desire to take the nation intact, there's places that'd just have to get glassed. Ft. Hood, to prevent an armored counterattack, for example. Key West and Homestead would each get small stuff, like maybe a trio of 25kts each, to keep them from meddling with Cuba and Venezuela's movements through the Caribbean.

England at this point is going ape-shit, so they of course are getting a few "warning shots" (SSBN presence in the Channel and off Ireland, etc.) USAREUR will require some resources, too, since that's right in the back yard...

LOTS of sleeper teams. Lots of sabotage. If I'm looking at this 10-15 years out, even try and turn (or infiltrate!) local politics. Small towns are always the hitch...but suddenly if the mayor of Calumet (ha) wants to surrender peacefully, that makes a huge difference.

I'd play heavily on the strong leftist element in the US: tell Occupy you're here to make the 1% "pay their fair share". At gunpoint make hospitals provide free healthcare. Just hand out food from the "capitalist oppressors' " stores and shops, etc. There's plenty upon plenty of people in this country now that'd willingly collaborate upon such an event.