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The Iranian government will release more than 200 aircraft
which escaped during the Gulf War - back to Iraq. Forces in the
region scramble to stop the delivery.
Tensions between China and Taiwan are on the rise again.
Washington moves the available submarine forces into the theater,
including the SSBN 733 Nevada.
Things were changing fast in the Middle East after the Coalition left Iraq in January 2005. The House of Saud was forced to cut a deal with the opposition, and western military forces would no longer be allowed to interfere with Arabian politics and economics...
Saudi fundamentalists, supported by Iranian subversives,
has forced the Saudi King into exile. It became clear that these
nations intend to pursue joint plans to eradicate the Israeli nation
from the map.
The deal between China and Russia to purchase two Typhoon
class SSBN together with nuclear warheads did not materialize -
mainly because Beijing found a cheaper alternative: a Russian submarine
captain is willing to defect with his boat.
Since end of the 1990s, the USN is using their SSBNs more conventionally. Part of a Fleet Examination Exercise very often is one SSBN against another in a so-called Wolf and Rabbit role.
China has formed a military alliance with Myanmar. This move is being opposed by most members of ASEAN. India declared that any positioning of Chinese military units on Burmese soil or in Burmese waters would be considered an unfriendly act, risking a surgical response.
Russia sold six brand new Kilo class submarines to the perceived 21st decade enemy of the USA, and has promised to ensure safe delivery into Chinese waters.
It has been a well kept secret among the Chinese and Vietnamese forces that they have been contesting the Parcels Islands for more than a decade, with the Vietnamese leading the fray, as, apparently, they are more fierce than their opponents.
China, threatening to invade Taiwan, lures the U.S. 7th Fleet into a devastating trap. Three years ago the Chinese Navy secretly purchased four Akula II submarines from Russia, and now the crews are fully trained to assault an American carrier battle group.
China invades Taiwan in a moment when the USA have no carrier force in the region. The Taiwanese Navy, Army and Air Force are on red alert, and both America and Japan have pledged to bring in any immediate support that they can administer.
The island of Taiwan was invaded a year ago, and both the USA and Japan were unable to bring in sufficient forces in time to drive the invading Chinese Army back into the sea.
Now the USA is marshaling forces and trying to convince the UN to launch a counter-invasion.
In secret negotiations which started already three years ago, the USA and Vietnam agreed that Vietnam would provide base facilities for strikes against China and the liberation of Taiwan.
After months of political discussions and an expired ultimatum, the United Nations agreed to attack the Chinese invaders on Taiwan and launch at the same time a full scale attack against any military installation on mainland China.
In the year 2005 the political shape of Europe was dramatically
changed: Germany and France left the European Union and formed the
European Alliance (EurAlliance) together with Russia, Belarus and
Ukraine. The alliance was mainly established to counter US economic
and military dominance. On September 1st, 2008, London received
an ultimatum to join the alliance or face the consequences: invasion.
Washington earlier decided that the relation with Great
Britain could not be undermined. In order to prove this, a large
amphibious group sails towards Liverpool in support of UK divisions
defending a possible EurAlliance invasion. It is still not clear
if EurAlliance is risking a war with the USA.
EurAlliance forces are blockading Great Britain. Norway
joins the Anglo-American alliance and has is on its on initiative
engaging a EurAlliance SAG steaming towards the Shetland Islands.
Move your ships at top speed towards the central North Sea and attack
the joint SAG of EurAlliance.
The EurAlliance has been forced to neutralize Norway and
Iceland prior to the planned invasion of Great Britain. Russia is
tasked to scramble several amphibious groups for assaults on major
bases in Norway.
Norway is secured and will allow the EurAlliance to forward-deploy
forces. The alliance will now attack Iceland to gain control over
the North Atlantic and to deny the USA any base near European territory.
The British situation is desperate. An attack on Gibraltar
from the Spanish and French air forces is expected soon. A Spanish
SAG has also just departed Rota. Protect Gibraltar at all costs.
The time is ripe to neutralize Sweden and the Baltic states
to ensure Sweden's disarmament and the return of Latvia, Lithuania
and Estonia to Russia under the umbrella of EurAlliance.
After the escalation of hostilities in Northern Europe,
a US CVBG has to depart the Mediterranean via the Strait of Gibraltar.
EurAlliance forces are lying in ambush everywhere en route.
EurAlliance is getting serious. The invasion of Great Britain
is imminent. Two very large PHIBRONS are assembling offshore Amsterdam
and Cherbourg. It is estimated that both fleets will sail within
the hour.
In order to distract an expected US intervention in Europe
and to achieve the main strategic goal of denying the USA the access
to the oil and gas fields in the Arabian Gulf, EurAlliance decided
to occupy Northern Egypt and block the Suez Canal.
The Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) was ousted by the military in a bloody coup d'etat. ASEAN has launched an operation to restore democracy in the country.
ASEAN is moving an amphibious task force towards Java for a landing in Tanjong Priok. The landing will be supported by paratroops. For ASEAN it is a difficult task, as Malaysia and Singapore have gained a bit of experience in conducting joint operations.
Part three of the mini-series deals with the main assault by the Singaporean and Malaysian PHIBRONs and the attempt to land paratroopers in Jakarta and Tanjong Priok.
The Russian military overthrew the elected government in
a bloody coup d'etat. After an uprising of the Russian population
and horrendous bloodshed in the streets of all major Russian cities,
the UN decided to put an end to the might of the Russian military
and to install democratic forces once again.
Move your light carrier task force/amphibious group to the
Latvian coast south of the ice field and disembark your troops for
an overland assault on St. Petersburg. The Baltic states have granted
the UN rights of passage. Engage all Russian military bases with
preemptive strikes.
Conduct an amphibious landing at the Kola Peninsula. Preliminary
strikes against a number of bomber bases have been successful. The
Russian military now needs to be defeated once and for all in order
to secure a lasting peace and a democratic evolution in this country.
Part 3 deals with the assault on Rostov and Krasnodar and
the attack on Moscow. Most Russian air assets have been moved to
the Kola theater. However, it is estimated that both Krasnodar and
Moscow will be heavily defended.
Our success in Europe forced the Russian military leadership
to focus their main attention on the Far East. Both Vladivostok
and Petropavlovsk must be considered as the last Russian bastions
of major resistance. Destroy Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk.
After the landslide victory of the Democrats in the USA in 2008, the nation immediately went into a stage of international isolation. Military spending was cut drastically. Mothballed military equipment such as two FORRESTAL class carriers were sold to Japan, warships and submarines were sold to South Korea, and so on. All this stopped all of a sudden when a militaristic government took over in Japan in the middle of 2009 and managed the unification of the Korean peninsula, again without bloodshed. In 2010 China joined the pack, and in 2011 a coalition with the name New East Asian Prosperity Sphere was born.
By the end of 2011, most Southeast Asian nations were threatened to become a member of the pact or face economic isolation or war. Many of them succumbed and were relatively peacefully annexed, only Vietnam and Indonesia offered stiff resistance and came up with a real fight. The Singapore Navy and Air Force escaped to Vietnam, while Malaysia sent her navies and air forces to Java or India respectively.
Chinese troops are 30 km north of Hanoi, but cannot advance any longer due a tremendous partisan effort of the Vietnamese population. NEAPS troops, however, have successfully occupied the oil- and gas-rich installations in Sarawak, Brunei, Kalimantan, Irian Jaya and Sumatra. Australia, scared that NEAPS is closing up to her northern shores, intends to establish base in East Timor.
The Joint New East Asian Prosperity Sphere HQ for Southeast Asia has requested substantial reinforcements to ensure a successful amphibious landing near Jakarta to gain control over all of the Indonesian archipelago, but the remaining loyal Indonesian forces, together with their ANZAC and British allies, promised to offer tough resistance.
The New East Asian Prosperity Sphere, having gained complete control of all of Southeast Asia, is consolidated. An ultimatum has been sent to Moscow: surrender Siberia or face war. Russia decides within one hour on the appropriate answer: war. With her military still in bad shape, the world holds its breath: will the regional conflict turn into a nuclear escalation?
The year 2001 had some dramatic effects on the political, economic and military affairs of the world. After the invasion of Afghanistan by US-led ground troops and the elimination of the Taliban regime, the unrest, which erupted in the Near and Middle East as well as North Africa, was inevitable.
Pakistan, frustrated by the loss of her navy and part of her Air Force, and the Indian attempts to gain advantage by moving full scale into Kashmir, launches nuclear strikes against India, followed up by conventional air strikes, and India immediately retaliates.
After the much disputed but short attack on Iraq, the Middle East became a turmoil, with much hatred directed towards America and her close allies such as UK, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman.
South Korea wants to extract a high ranking North Korean defector who hijacked a ferry boat together with some compatriots and forced the captain to divert to Sokmo. CIA believes that the defection is a deceit to provide the north with an international excuse to start hostilities.
This is the major scenario of the battleset: The USA, Japan, and South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea to disable the nuclear and strategic warfare capabilities of that country. The scenario must be played with the nuclear option enabled.
The USA obtained proof that Iran is using the Bushire reactor for the production of a nuclear bomb. The second Iranian production facility has yet to be identified. NCA decided to use a surgical strike, however, stealth attack aircraft could not be made available in the time window open for a possible surprise strike.
In September 1989, Erich Honecker, afraid to loose power
due to the growing unrest in East German, launched a Blitzkrieg-style
overland assault against NATO forces in West Germany. Immediately
the leaders of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania pledged
support. Mikhail Gorbachev was overthrown by a military coup two
days after the attack, and the new military junta mobilized immediately
to back up East German maneuvers.
SATINT, COMINT and HUMINT reports that more than 40 SSBNs and SSNs
of the Northern Fleet are surging into the Norwegian Sea, with the
only likely intention: to pass the GIUK gap. NATO scrambles.
NATO was closely monitoring the Russian SUMMEREX 89 maneuvers
of that year when the Rules of Engagement changed suddenly. While
the support groups for the main Soviet task force would not be a
match for NATO, STANAFORLANT's only chance in survival was to quickly
disengage.
Reinforcements are urgently needed in Europe, and convoys are being organized. The USA decided to escort their convoys lightly, but base strong task forces along the sea lanes of communication to counter any threat to a convoy with brute force.
Warsaw Pact forces launch the assault on the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles and air strikes against Greece and Turkey in preparation to take control of the Mediterranean.
So far the military situation in the Far East resembled the so-called "drole de guerre" at the western front in the Second World War. But suddenly it seems that the USSR is readying their submarines in Vladivostok for a breakout into the Pacific.
Most of Germany is under Warsaw Pact occupation and Russian, East German, and Czechoslovakian troops are preparing to cross the Rhine. The USN is still able to launch an effective blow at the WP defenses by liberating Iceland and preparing the country for support of a major carrier attack into the Norwegian and Barents Sea.
After Germany is overrun by Warsaw Pact troops, NATO launches a counter-attack in the rear - behind enemy lines. The mission is to attack Russian and East German troops from the east and west and to disrupt their overland and seaborne lines/lanes of supply.
NATO is fighting for survival. This battle will decide the fate of the divisions along the Rhine - and the fate of western democracy. NATO's most important convoy ever is en route to Antwerp with thousands of tons of badly needed supplies and USMC reinforcements.
