I dont accept human based climate change as being able to cause huge weather changes all on its own because of the past historical record of ice ages and warm times when humans had much less of an effect on the planet - there were agricultural settlements in Greenland and Labrador in the 1100's-1300's because the Earth warmed up and allowed them without emissions, pollutants and other factors to cause it -
As for Howling Wildnerness - that module has a lot of problems with it beyond the weather issues - if you follow it to its logical course the US ends up a dead nation that can never come back - the writers went way too overboard with it - half the population already dead and only enough food for a 1/4 of whats left means the US gets depopulated to 1/8th of its pre-war population - and thats if most of the remainder dont all die to typhus and cholera from a hundred million unburied bodies lying around in 2001 (people who are starving to death dont usually dig graves for others)
and MILGOV gives away hundreds of armored vehicles, jets, cannon, etc.. that are irreplaceable with whats left of the factories to bring home 43000 men and then apparently just let 40,000 plus of them leave the service with no plan at all while Mexico and the Soviets and a hostile rebel force occupy large parts of the US?
again no way that happens
and I agree completely with raketenjagdpanzer on his opinion - if you discount Kidnapped and HW you in no way have the US suddenly a world dominant power again - what you have left is a broken nation with three power blocs fighting it out, enemy troops, marauders and rebels still to be driven out, large areas of the country ruined by nukes, an economy in shambles and military forces that are a shadow of themselves
hardly the description of a military and economic Colossus that nukes the French and becomes a world power again by 2010
What HW and Kidnapped did was make sure that Twilight 2300 could not happen as described - rejecting those two modules in fact actually makes that possible as a canon timeline - embracing them makes any American Arm or US revival impossible by the dates given - you would be lucky to have a United States at all, let alone one sending faster than light ships into space
and a history where the US allows less than 20,000 total Soviets and Mexicans to keep Texas, half of CA, AZ and NM and never recover them (and where a Texian Legion strong enough to take on US divisions and almost destroy one of them but not destroy Mexican detachments a quarter the size of them to liberate Texas from Mexican rule)- I join raketenjagdpanzer in his snorting at that idea
and back to Ancestor's question - yes I wonder why they overlooked West Point and the various USMC training facilities when they did both the books on US forces - you would figure if the cadets and teachers were all shipped overseas that would have been mentioned - they didnt do it with the Air Force Academy after all or the School Brigade down in Texas -
the cadets and their teachers make for a rather large force of trained men and would have been used for sure, at the very least, to help maintain order in NY after the TDM
and they might have been reinforced by various ROTC detachments as well - RPI has a large ROTC detachment of various groups - enough to add close to a battalion all by itself to the West Point cadets unless the state government grabs them to help keep order in Albany
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