Kalos I have to ask what is the timescale for your article?
American forces in Europe returned to America in November 2000 on Task Force 34, but its no longer the America that they left a few years before. The country is in turmoil from nuclear attack, civil war and foreign invasion and all that came with it. MilGov barely controls the environs of the port of Norfolk, and if we follow GDW's canon then there is hardly enough industry or fuel to support US forces already in the US before Task Force 34 returns. Since you are obviously not following canon by proposing a US campaign that sees a refitted and well equipped US Army liberating Texas and California, I have to ask again what would be your timescale for this.
The fact that the Mexicans were able to pull off an invasion of the Southwest and hold it, yet alone defeat US forces sent against them is one of the great escape from realities of T2K. The Mexican military although quite large in manpower by T2K standards, also has questionable training standards and is far to lightly and poorly equipped to go up against frontline US Army units even in T2K. In reality the Canadians would be far more professional and better equipped opponent. Also the Mexicans have splintered into rival political factions and many Mexican units have become nothing more than organised criminals.
Then we have the Mexican and Mexican-American gang element!! Useless brain dead thugs who would not stand a snowball chance in hell in defeating a US Army unit. If we have veteran US troops returning from Europe going up against them then we are going to have a lop sided massacre of all gang members. US troops wont be interested in offering human garbage like this who have run riot across parts of occupied America citizenship for their help in defeating regular Mexican troops, they will just line them up against the nearest wall and exterminate them. In fact most of the gangs will probably just run for the nearest Mexican lines and then keep on running.
But the fact is in T2K the US was decimated by Soviet nuclear attack. The Mexicans are in control of the Southwest, and the US is destabilised and splintered into MilGov, CivGov, New America and other forces. In your version how long did it take for MilGov to eliminate or reconcile with CivGov, to eliminate New America and other unlawful groups, to retool and fuel their Army to take on the Mexicans, and to build up a logistics train to support such a wide ranging operation across a number of territorially large US states such as Texas, California, Arizona and New Mexico?
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