DEFCON Year Two

Prologue

August 15th 2025

It was August 15th 2025 and World War III was now beginning its second year. The United States has reconstituted their military industrial complex and hired millions of unemployed persons, thus allowing the industry to slowly but surely catch up with the global war effort. Many civilians left their job to enlist in the US Military, forcing it to set up higher standards to unsuccessfully try to mitigate the flow of recruits, who were assigned to re-established units, bringing the total number of US military personel from 2,127,500 to nearly 35 million persons in total. Additionally, US industrial workforce had an all-time high 68,000,000 recorded employees, efficiently supporting the US war machine.

The US Military on the other hand, was now involved in increasingly large battles, even if the US Military was getting the upper hand in air-to-air combat thanks to a number highly-trained pilots, who were trained by experienced pilots, who had in turn learned their lesson the hard way. Similarly, the ground and naval forces of the United States were increasingly well-led and well-trained thanks to combat veterans who were returned to the US to train the newly enlisted personel.

And the US military-industrial complex was now also using a lot of 3D printers to make essential pieces of equipment as well as a lot of parts either to make new tanks, armored vehicles of all models, military helicopters of all makes, planes of all types, missiles of all types or even microchips for these high-tech weapons. Those 3D printers were used at a huge scale for the war effort, as they were in Ukraine since February 24th 2022 by the local military to print their hardware.

The United States also managed to become self-sufficient in terms of natural ressources including rare-earth metals, steel, fuel and gas, allowing them to build reopen factories and shipyards specializing in manufacturing ammunition, tanks, aircraft, helicopters, destroyers, aircraft carriers, logistics vessels, trucks, reconnaissance vehicles, howitzers and artillery weapons, uniforms and small arms. All this production effort was done regardless of the type or model of weaponry.

This war effort and wartime production rate was enabled by President Biden invoking the National Defense Act in addition of having allowed his generals and admiral to do their job while he handled politics and public relationship by telling how the US Military was winning battles, which allowed him to get reelected for a second and last term as President of the United States. But President Biden knew he first had to score as many decisive victories as possible on the battlefield for his successor to be able to win the war.

Many countries allied with the United States, including Poland, France, Germany, Australia and Indonesia had been provided with billions of dollars worth of ammunition and other military-grade consumables, enabling them to hold until the bulk of the US Military came to their aid.

And this aid also came in the form of US military personel, who by then controlled the Kaliningrad oblast, Belarus, Latin America, the whole Indian Ocean, Africa and the majority of the Middle East while also controlling large parts of Asia. The US Military also prepared to bring war to China and Russia themselves.

And millions of American troops, including Norrie Vastano, Maddie Calvert, Dale Uris, Mel, Deere, Anna Hunter, BBC, Marker, Carly Wells, Watt, Random, Itchy, Amy Pollard, Buster, Lucky, Zombie, KJ, Lighter, Metal, Mac, Danni, Evie Dunning, Flint Murdoch and Courtney Williams. The American forces would indeed have to take control of Burma and northern China, as well as parts of Russia and the whole of Belarus before bringing the war to Russia and China themselves.

And the first step was to take Burma and Belarus as well as Sakalin islands and the Kamchatka peninsula, which would allow the US and the Global Alliance to topple the tyrants in Russia and China next.