[Tegyrius]

(Edited because it's too damned late and I was reading the wrong draft.)

Okay, Boss, I'll get the ball rolling. One of the things Spoe mentioned in another thread was an early draft idea that you abandoned in the final copy: the Chinese forces roaming California and causing trouble for all. The final incarnation is not a heavy sealift invasion, but more of an infiltration of SOFs in the manner reportedly planned by Spetznaz. Now, I can agree with some of the criticisms there, given - even on the Left Coast - the large number of armed citizens who would be enthusiastically taking the opportunity to form up local militias.

However, here's a nasty permutation. Might I suggest a return to the old idea we kicked around in the world destruction conference regarding a few charismatic leaders polarizing followers and generating effects out of proportion to their personal capabilities? One idea I've been toying with - but a lot more research would be required to see if it'd work - is a Mexican demagogue (possibly with connections to MS-13 et al) stirring up a popular Aztlan nationalist movement in the Southwest that would become an active insurgency after the Collapse. Have the Chinese supporting him for their own reasons and using the Aztlaner forces as diversions for their own sabotage and decapitation work.

- C.