@Karaiskandar: I am sure that is what Kennedy thought about the soviets and Cuba.....
@Asalto: Perhaps, but It would probably be a lot more work than it would be worth. Although I have been thinking that it would be fun to play a standard MDS 1.6 game for my next AAR project, but that is still far in the future right now.
@Zhuge Liang: Well, there are only a few countries in Latin America I would want to ally with, and those are Columbia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. The rest, being Honduras, the UP, Peru, and Haiti, are all dictatorial regimes that I would never want to associate with. Anyway, Columbia, Venezuela, and Ecuador are all too isolationist anyway, so I probably will not bother.
@Razgriz 2K9: I wouldn't count on it not getting any worse.
@Maddogg1178: I cant recall off the top of my head, but I think the Danes are PA in this game, or very close to it. Anyway, they are surrounded by both Germany and Sweden, which are both allies, so it would not be wise of them to try and join me only to get overrun on the first day of a war.
@Zeldar155: dont worry, this is gonna heat up, even without American missiles in France.
@Ottoman Master: That would probably be a better question to ask in the KR forums or the MDS forums. I do know most people that have done such a thing have done lots of changes in savefiles instead of scenario files.
@everyone: thanks for the comments!
The entry of the Dominican Republic to Mitteleuropa, a Caribbean island nation with air and naval bases that allow Germany and Russia the ability to strike at the United States itself with bombers and warships, has in the minds of many US military commanders set the world on the path to war. With global tensions now mounting at an exponential rate, top US generals meet to make a final overview of the deployment of US forces all over the world.
First, American commanders take a look at
United States Forces Europe, the portion of US troops that have been positioned permanently in Europe since the end of the 2nd world war against the syndicalists in December of 1944. Totaling over 1 million soldiers, and equipped with thousands of M48A5 main battle tanks as well as many thousands of armoured personnel carriers in numerous mechanized infantry divisions, US Forces Europe consists of the heaviest mechanized forces the US Army can muster. Commanded by many veteran generals that fought against the syndicalists, these troops will be tasked with reinforcing the allies' European members in halting and turning around a German armoured offensive.
Next to come under review is
United States Forces Africa. This group is made up of 330,000 US troops that were sent to South Africa in the early 1950's in response to a South African government request for reinforcements along its border with the powerful colony of Friestaat Mittelafrika. These soldiers are positioned along the border, and even include a large American armoured and mechanized group in Rhodesia. In the event of war, these soldiers will lead South African forces into what used to be the Portuguese colony of Mozambique as well as into Namibia, combating forces of the over 1 million strong Mittelafrikan colonial army, led by Statthalter Hermann Goring.
The next large concentration of US forces to be spotlighted is
United States Forces India. 610,000 US soldiers, including elite mountaineers and US Marines, as well as thousands of naval personnel make up US Forces India, and have multiple objectives in the event of war. First, some 150,000 US troops will assist the Indian army in defending the Indian state of Afghanistan from a possible invasion of the Russian Army, which has deployed huge amounts of troops across the border in Russian Central Asia and Russian occupied Persia. The next objectives of US Forces India will be to secure Germany's Indian ocean possessions of Sri Lanka, Diego Garcia, and even Madagascar. Finally, US troops here could either be used to open up new fronts in either eastern Mittelafrika, the Ottoman dominated Middle east, or, if the situation is bad enough, further reinforce the 1.5 million man Indian army. Also, to help in naval operations, the US navy has allocated a carrier task force under the leadership of Admiral Nimitz, as well as a large number of transport ships, all of which are docked in a massive naval base in Mumbai.
Next on the global overview of military deployments is
United States Forces Korea and
United States Forces Japan. A total of 800,000 US troops combined are stationed in these two areas. The main objective of the 350,000 soldiers of US Forces Korea is a defensive one: to help the Republic of Korea's army defend the Korean peninsula from a possible Russian/Qing invasion across the Yalu river. However, these troops could also be ordered to launch an invasion of the Russian city of Vladivostok, which is also reported to be heavily defended by the Russian army. The remaining soldiers that make up US Forces Japan, and which have been undertaking occupational and reconstruction duties in Japan since the end of the Pacific war, could either be sent to help defend China, or help stage an attack along the pacific coast of Siberia.
The final deployment of US forces internationally to be reviewed is
United States Forces China. The young Chinese republic, which borders a hostile Qing Empire to the north, is reinforced by 610,000 US soldiers, which have been deployed along nearly the entire border, face to face with the 1.6 million soldiers of the Russian supplied Qing Imperial Army. These soldiers will be badly needed here in the event of war, with the Chinese Republican Army only possessing a little over 60 divisions of troops, which will need help in stopping a Qing and Russian invasion of their territory. In terms of posture, US forces will be given a mixed role here. While helping in a defensive capacity along much of the border, towards the eastern coast, US forces will be ordered to go on the offensive, marching into Qingdao en route to the Qing capital of Beijing. Whether such a plan will work however is still up to debate, with the Qing deploying large amounts of troops in the area, as well as even larger formations along the entire length of the border.
With the review complete, US commanders are confident that these forces will be enough to combat the powerful armed forces commanded by the nations of the German Empire and its allies. American commanders will not have very long to wait and see, as the situation with the Dominican republic is about to descend into what many would later dub "The Dominican Missile Crisis"....