@everybody: thank you all for your comments. There are so many however, coupled with my own laziness, that I will let further updates answer any questions.
Alright, time to end my epic procrastination and continue with this thing. Oh, by the way, this AAR won the AARland choice awards for best HOI2 gameplay AAR. Thank you all for the support!
With the war over and peace restored to the United States, the soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the United States Armed Forces begin to come home. First to arrive is the entire United States Airforce, equipped with the latest models of multirole Jet fighters and powerful jet powered bombers.
Next, the great battlegroups of the United States Navy, consisting of many aircraft carriers and battleships, return to port in California for postwar reorganization.
Finally, hundreds of thousands of US soldiers begin the long journey back to the United States. In total, some 1.73 million US troops return from the pacific, with a large force of American infantry being left to occupy a defeated and broken Japan.
Next, the United States government reshapes the political map of Asia. Australia and New Zealand are created as separate states, soon to join the British Commonwealth of Nations alongside countries like Canada and South Africa. A republic of Indonesia is formed out of what used to be the Dutch East Indies and Australasian New Guinea. The Philippines is recreated as an independent state as well. Finally, new democratic republics are set up in China, Korea, Malaysia, and Indochina, with the creation of a Vietnamese state including Laos and former Siamese Cambodia.
The government of India soon follows suit, creating new states in Burma and Siam.
Meanwhile, as East Asia is politically reorganized, the German Kaiser Wilhelm the 3rd passes away of natural causes in Berlin. His son is quickly crowned as the new German Kaiser, becoming Wilhelm the 4th.
The hard fought victory in the pacific war has taught many lessons to the United States navy, most importantly that having a modern, powerful fleet is crucial to success at sea. Therefore, the government scraps or sells off as museum ships many dozens of old, veteran destroyers, cruisers, and battleships, to make way for a new, modern fleet. The only exceptions to this purge of old vessels is the last of the navy's pre-pacific war aircraft carriers, of which only 3 remain, now with updated CAG's and a new lease on life.
Now that the pacific war is over, one of America's most important allies, India, turns to other matters. Prevented from demanding its rightful territories by the military needs of the pacific war, the government of India can now bring down the full weight of its diplomatic and military capabilities on the governments of Tibet and Afghanistan, which had both seized control of parts of the old British Raj in the wake of the British revolution. Tibet, realizing the hopelessness of any military conflict, quickly evacuates its officials from Srinigar and cedes the territory to India. However, Afghanistan refuses, bringing a declaration of war from India followed by a large scale Indian invasion.
Meanwhile, the governments of Korea and Australia settle territorial disputes with the governments of Russia and the Ottoman Empire. Backed by American money, Korea and Australia purchase from the two Mitteleuropan states territories they had come to control through the course of the Pacific War.
This peaceful diplomatic initiative is however overshadowed by an alarming development, as the government of Russia announces its successful test detonation of a fully functional nuclear weapon. Russia has now broken the United States monopoly on nuclear weapons, becoming the second state in the world to possess them.
Finally, just after new years day in 1952, Germany establishes two buffer states in Northwestern Europe, an arrangement the German government had been organizing for many years now. An expanded Kingdom of the Netherlands is established, gaining control of the territory of Flanders. Afterwards, a new, Wallonian state under Leon Degrelle is established, encompassing the Wallonian heartland in what was once southern Belgium, and expanding to encompass German occupied northeastern France. This move greatly angers the French government, which contests the right of Wallonia to control these territories which had been for many decades a traditional part of France proper.
Alright, time to end my epic procrastination and continue with this thing. Oh, by the way, this AAR won the AARland choice awards for best HOI2 gameplay AAR. Thank you all for the support!
With the war over and peace restored to the United States, the soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the United States Armed Forces begin to come home. First to arrive is the entire United States Airforce, equipped with the latest models of multirole Jet fighters and powerful jet powered bombers.
Next, the great battlegroups of the United States Navy, consisting of many aircraft carriers and battleships, return to port in California for postwar reorganization.
Finally, hundreds of thousands of US soldiers begin the long journey back to the United States. In total, some 1.73 million US troops return from the pacific, with a large force of American infantry being left to occupy a defeated and broken Japan.
Next, the United States government reshapes the political map of Asia. Australia and New Zealand are created as separate states, soon to join the British Commonwealth of Nations alongside countries like Canada and South Africa. A republic of Indonesia is formed out of what used to be the Dutch East Indies and Australasian New Guinea. The Philippines is recreated as an independent state as well. Finally, new democratic republics are set up in China, Korea, Malaysia, and Indochina, with the creation of a Vietnamese state including Laos and former Siamese Cambodia.
The government of India soon follows suit, creating new states in Burma and Siam.
Meanwhile, as East Asia is politically reorganized, the German Kaiser Wilhelm the 3rd passes away of natural causes in Berlin. His son is quickly crowned as the new German Kaiser, becoming Wilhelm the 4th.
The hard fought victory in the pacific war has taught many lessons to the United States navy, most importantly that having a modern, powerful fleet is crucial to success at sea. Therefore, the government scraps or sells off as museum ships many dozens of old, veteran destroyers, cruisers, and battleships, to make way for a new, modern fleet. The only exceptions to this purge of old vessels is the last of the navy's pre-pacific war aircraft carriers, of which only 3 remain, now with updated CAG's and a new lease on life.
Now that the pacific war is over, one of America's most important allies, India, turns to other matters. Prevented from demanding its rightful territories by the military needs of the pacific war, the government of India can now bring down the full weight of its diplomatic and military capabilities on the governments of Tibet and Afghanistan, which had both seized control of parts of the old British Raj in the wake of the British revolution. Tibet, realizing the hopelessness of any military conflict, quickly evacuates its officials from Srinigar and cedes the territory to India. However, Afghanistan refuses, bringing a declaration of war from India followed by a large scale Indian invasion.
Meanwhile, the governments of Korea and Australia settle territorial disputes with the governments of Russia and the Ottoman Empire. Backed by American money, Korea and Australia purchase from the two Mitteleuropan states territories they had come to control through the course of the Pacific War.
This peaceful diplomatic initiative is however overshadowed by an alarming development, as the government of Russia announces its successful test detonation of a fully functional nuclear weapon. Russia has now broken the United States monopoly on nuclear weapons, becoming the second state in the world to possess them.
Finally, just after new years day in 1952, Germany establishes two buffer states in Northwestern Europe, an arrangement the German government had been organizing for many years now. An expanded Kingdom of the Netherlands is established, gaining control of the territory of Flanders. Afterwards, a new, Wallonian state under Leon Degrelle is established, encompassing the Wallonian heartland in what was once southern Belgium, and expanding to encompass German occupied northeastern France. This move greatly angers the French government, which contests the right of Wallonia to control these territories which had been for many decades a traditional part of France proper.
