@History_Buff: I do plan to cover part of the Italian front with the Po river, but Milan, on the north side, is an Urban province, and can hold back lots of divisions with just a small force.
@Karaiskandar: True, but interestingly, the front in France is very quiet. The French and Germans clashed a bit, but the Germans then stopped their attacks, kind of like what the Russians did in Afghanistan. I guess the Germans are waiting for more troops to arrive before launching a large scale offensive, and that will take a while.
@Meadow: Good point. The UK's powerful armoured forces will be a great asset if things really start to deteriorate in Europe.
@Zhuge Liang: Yes, Rafael Trujillo will now painfully regret joining forces with the Germans.
@Asalto: Taking full military control of all my allies might be a bit too much though. I am already having a tough time trying to control all of my own military forces. It will be pretty overwhelming having to deal with all of the ground, sea, and air forces of all of my allies. I guess I will take control of some of my allies, but leave the rest to their own devices, unless I have to personally intervene.
@everyone else: thanks for the comments!
With the beaches secure, 150,000 US soldiers and marines march on the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo. Standing between them and the capital are 150,000 Dominican troops, including local paramilitary forces and regular infantry armed with some of the latest German infantry weapons. The fighting is fierce in the mountains of the area, with German military advisers reportedly leading some of the enemy forces. After suffering rather large amounts of losses, US forces approach the outskirts of the capital.
The 3rd World War also begins to rage in China, with combined US and Republican Chinese forces facing off against the Russian equipped and trained Qing Imperial army. As Qing and Republican forces skirmish with each other along most of the border, US troops in the east begin to march towards the city of Beijing, fighting huge battles with the Qing Army before finally overwhelming the enemy forces.
Back in the Caribbean, US forces begin to enter the capital after heavy fighting with the Dominican Army. US marines, not suited to fighting in the mountains of the southern portion of the island, almost fail in sustaining their advance, until heavy air strikes and artillery support from the US navy finally turns the tide, leading to the total surrender of the Dominican army to US forces.
Meanwhile, American aircraft carriers and battleships depart the US east coast and head for Europe. From there, they will be sent to patrol the eastern Atlantic, defending Allied shipping from the German and Russian navies.
Elsewhere, US forces begin to seize control of Germany's most remote colonial possessions. The first target: the German colony of Ceylon, which used to be controlled by the British before the revolution of 1925 and subsequent German takeover of the island. Now, it is America's turn to take control of this strategic place, with 60,000 US marines and army infantry storming the beaches at the city of Colombo. Defending the area is a German colonial infantry division, which severely outnumbered, flees to the north of the island.
In India, Russian forces launch another large scale attack against allied forces in Afghanistan, once again, in the centre of the front. This time, 790,000 Russian troops with heavy tank and mechanized support, assault the allied lines for only a few hours before once again withdrawing to their start positions. It seems that the Russians are continuing to test Allied defenses again rather than launch a breakthrough attack.
In the Atlantic ocean, the US navy clashes for the first time with warships of the German high seas fleet. This encounter is more of an accidental one, with the German fleet, made up largely of obsolete pre-second world war battleships stumbling upon the US navy's two Enterprise class carrier battlegroups. The huge, but old German vessels are quickly spotted on American radars and set upon by advanced carrier jet aircraft.
American fighter bombers pound the German capital ships with missile and bomb attacks, causing devastating damage. Realizing that they are about to get wiped out, the German fleet lays down heavy smoke screens and turns around, running the gauntlet back to Europe. The American jets soon run out of ammunition and return to their ships, having sunk 2 German battleships with only a handful of aircraft being shot down. American admirals are pleased by this encounter, showing the Germans the power of the US navy first hand.
However, the German navy is not the only enemy fleet active in the Atlantic. American convoy vessels carrying supplies to bases in the Atlantic are now coming attack by a silent enemy, powerful and highly advanced Russian attack submarines. The US navy is going to have to do something against these vessels, or risk possibly losing many more convoy ships.
On May 2nd, US forces finally enter the Dominican Republic's capital, taking control of the Presidential palace and arresting General Rafael Trujillo, the military dictator of the island. Trujillo is forced to completely surrender his country, the first Mitteleuropan member state to surrender to the Allied Forces. Meanwhile, US troops throughout the island stumble upon the remnants of multiple ballistic missile launch facilities, which show evidence of being destroyed by German engineers that be risked falling into US hands. This ends any short and medium range threat to the US mainland and the entire Western Hemisphere, but does not end the threat from enemy ballistic missiles completely, with intelligence reports indicating that the Russians and Germans both have the ability to manufacture ICBM's. (intercontinental ballistic missiles)