((History of the 4th world war to provide background to the Norris Presidency, I'll make a further post later with a player choice. Also, I really need to correct this trend of longer and longer posts.))
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1940
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In May 1940 the guns roared to life in western Europe again. Although outnumbered, German troops attacked their better equipped opponents in an aggressive strategy. Group B feinted north into the Benelux while Group A attacked in the south, allowing for an encirclement over over a million French and allied soldiers, the largest encirclement in history up until that point and for more then a century afterwards. In a month and a half, France fell and the entire world was shaken. War would never be the same again...
Across the Atlantic Ocean, the American industrial giant was shaken from it's distrust of European affairs. A month after France surrendered, the American Congress passed the Two Oceans Navy Act. Abandoning the principle of mutual disarmament that had underpinned the Washington naval treaties, the act called for an unprecedented expansion in military power. The tonnage of the American navy would soon surpass that of all other nations combined.
A photo of part of the US 3rd fleet in 1944 with six fleet carriers it represented about a quarter of American carrier strength.
At the time of this photo, the opposing forces to the 3rd and 7th fleet consisted of a single fleet carrier and escorts.The commission of the first Essex class carrier in 1942 was the start of three centuries of American rule of the oceans. With it's control of the Oceans, the entire world was within reach of the American military.
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American intervention in Africa
American intervention in Asia--------------------------------------
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American control of the oceans would be seriously challenged for the first time during the 4th world war. Still reeling from nuclear fallout and manmade pathogens, the US military could not afford to maintain overwhelming supremacy in the face of the People's Republic of China naval buildup. With their control of east Asia, the PLAN was able to create small, stealth missile craft by the tens of thousands. Although unable to directly challenge the American navy, the nuclear armament of these craft made the Pacific ocean too dangerous for American naval interdiction.
The Chinese occupation of Hawaii was the first major invasion of the United States in nearly three centuries. In June 2173 Chinese paratroopers landed near San Francisco and the world was held like in May 1940...
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The Chinese offensive bogged down in the Rocky Mountains as the US resorted to hiding nuclear weapons on the routes through the mountain to foil any Chinese advance. Strained by their conflicts in Asia, the Chinese were content to deny the Pacific coast while they constructed a fleet capable of matching the US Navy. Knowing that they could not match Chinese production, the American navy looked for an unconventional way to recapture the Pacific coast...
USS Enterprise, First Amphibious Nuclear LandKruzer in 2095At first the LandKruzer was assumed to be a purely terrestrial weapon. The Chinese assumed that it was part of the American counter offensive towards Los Angelos and not a cost effective platform. Between it's armor and anti-nuclear rail gun defenses it was nearly indestructible but a single massive railgun platform could not justify the massive cost of the beast. But after it's baptism in fire at Yuma, the first LandKruzer offensive went not toward Los Angelos or San Diego but towards the strategically unimportant town of Ensenada. Then, the Chinese and world media lost track of the behemoths completely. Soon after the true military use of the LandKruzers became clear...
The LandKruzer rail gun armament was capable of operating beneath hundreds or even thousands of meter of water. Slow moving torpedo could never achieve the saturation effect of rapid cruise missiles. Hundreds of submarines could launch thousands of nuclear torpedos at the LandKruzer and all would be disabled by railguns kilometers from the vehicle. The railgun system was in turn a danger to any submarine or surface ship nearby. Two years earlier Chinese light craft had made the Pacific unsafe for American surface vessels. Now the tables were turned with the Chinese ships forced out of the Eastern Pacific. With the 7th Fleet once again interdicting Chinese air traffic American forces were able to recapture the west coast...
Battle of Los AngelesThen once again an offensive was launched across the Pacific...
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With the occupation of Beijing by American and Indian soldiers, the presidents of the two countries declared that the new world order would prevent the mass destruction of the third and forth world wars from being repeated. Stringent bans on nuclear, chemical and biological weapons were declared in the New Delhi Accord. However the real shift came with the strident new doctorines espoused by American Secretary of State Carl Jenkins.
The US military was at it's peak strength but the American population was exhausted by war and famine.
Another long war would be uncertain. The only way to maintain security would be to allow no new threats to arise. Canada and Mexico would no longer be allowed to conduct independent foreign policies. The shipworks of East Asia that were devastated by the war would not be allowed to be rebuilt. Not only would Americas former enemies not be allowed to develop the capability for LandKruzer technology but even allies would be prevented from developing their own LandKruzers. The past century and a half had been defined by American hegemonic leadership. Jenkins defined a new world order of unilateral military domination where no one, friend or foe, would be allowed to stand as equal. Even as America struggled with lawlessness and hunger at home, it's military would continue to be able to enforce a one sided peace across the entire Earth...
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