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Originally Posted by Webstral
I don’t understand why the airborne troops were dropped in Colorado in the first place. What purpose are they supposed to be serving there? Why aren’t they crushed by 4th ID, which is just down the road in Colorado Springs?
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Honestly, once I was grown up and could think it through, it does make a sort of sense. There is only 3 relatively easy ways to go from the east to the west once you get past the plains. The southern route in Red Dawn got shot when the mexicans went north: there is no way they don't get the literally 3 miles past the Mexican border to cut that route in southern California. Up north, you have the old Great Northern/Milwaukee Road route through montana, as well a *just* to the south you have the UP. All three routes get necked down hard on the Columbia River. That leaves just the middle route, which is the DRG&W and the UP shooting through towards Salt Lake city. Both of those are part of the Colorado Joint Line. Its also where the southern route comes up against the middle road as well, so its a huge transportation choke point. I assumed what the Reds was doing was cutting the middle road, forcing the US to depend on the northern route to go east to west, and what with the push from Alaska, the question is how far down into BC or even Washington State they get: at any rate, the Columbia River Choke point is in *very* easy range of Tac Air. So basically, in the Red Dawn Scenario, there is *no* rail traffic from the Eastern US to the Pacific Coast, which means it will eventually wither on the Vine.
Not a bad plan as it goes.