In 1995 a series of Sino-Soviet
border conflicts expanded into general war between the Soviet Union and China.
The Sino-Soviet war rapidly escalated from conventional warfare into exchanges
of nuclear chemical and biological weapons. In 1996 a cabal of East German and
West German military officers seek to reunify their country. Unified German
forces stage a coup d'état against the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. The
US and NATO allies initially attempt to stay out of the war, but are quickly
drawn into the European conflict.
Between 1996 and 1997 a largely
conventional war is fought between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces throughout Europe.
There are limited exchanges of battlefield nuclear weapons, and chemical and
biological weapons. During Thanksgiving 1997, the Soviet Union launches a
surprise first strike against targets in the United States and Europe. The US
and Great Britain launch retaliatory nuclear strikes against the Soviet Union.
In the aftermath of the nuclear
exchanges, both blocs struggle to recover from the damage. The war continues -
despite increasing shortages of men, equipment, and fuel. In the United States
there is a breach between the civilian government and the Joint Chiefs of
Staff. An open rift develops between "Civgov" (the civilian
government) and "Milgov" (the military government), which leads to a
low-intensity civil war.
By the summer of 2000, the
European theater of operations had been fought to a near stalemate. In one
final effort to break the deadlock and end the war NATO forces planned a summer
offensive across Northern Poland and into the Baltics, but the offensive ground
to a halt in the face of a Warsaw Pact counterattack. Several divisions &
corps on each side were virtually eliminated. In the chaotic aftermath, supply
lines are lost, high level command breaks down and armies in the European
theater lose cohesion beyond the platoon unit. Some go “native’ and integrated
with the militias of independent “free cities", others turned into gangs
of marauding bandits and some small groups of surviving soldiers sought to find
their way home.
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