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Originally Posted by Drgonzo2011
Great stuff as usual. Wondering if you plan on addressing what always seemed like a hole in canon - why the US doesn't just flatten Northern Mexico with nukes. Even with the weapons expended and destroyed, there should be enough to wipe out Mexican supply and transportation centers. In my campaign, I solve this by having far fewer nukes used in general and with the Soviets (who are more active in the Mexican invasion) threatening a tit for tat exchange if the US bombs Mexico. I don't recall GDW ever addressing this (although I could be wrong). Anyway, looking forward to more of your posts.
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Thanks for asking! Spoiler alert: it's coming. The Soviets already took out nearly all of Mexican oil refining with strikes in December. I have Division Cuba pretty much completely out of contact with STAVKA and their deployment is a strictly local arrangement.
The US hasn't released any of its tremendous remaining nuclear arsenal on Mexico for somewhat technical reasons... delays in command and communications, the lack of target intelligence and loss of nuclear weapon mission planners, even things as basic as knowing where the railheads are. (Once that is known then weapons need to be allocated, targeting information developed then sorties planned. SAC took a direct hit during the TDM, seriously depleting its ability to plan strikes. The prewar SAC planners didn't maintain the detailed information on Mexican targets, so that needs to be gathered... Tomahawk cruise missiles, for example, use radar terrain matching guidance. The US doesn't have the detailed terrain mapping in the form needed to feed that guidance system and needs to do radar mapping first, which is easier said than done at this point of the war.
Which is a long-winded way of saying that the US nuclear response is delayed but building...
Thanks for your patience and allowing me to explain my reasoning!