
Outside of South Korea, where South Korean and U.S. forces were engaged in all-out war against the
massive invading forces of North Korea, U.S. Army and Air Force assets had been caught by surprise
all across the Japanese Islands and in Okinawa. Hundreds of personnel had been killed and many air
superiority and strike aircraft had been destroyed by surprise ballistic missile attacks from other
converted Chinese container ships and their escorts. Many of these aircraft had been extremely vital to
the continued defense of the Korean peninsula.
The Korean forces and their support units in Japan were now effectively cut off and facing a very
ominous situation as local populations and governments began considering their own reaction in the face
of the Chinese and CAS threat. And the local governments had reason to be concerned. Several large
invasion forces consisting of the newly developed and deployed PLAN amphibious assault groups
escorted by newly deployed Chinese STOL aircraft carrier groups had formed up. These were moving
towards the western shores of South Korea, towards the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan and
towards the Philippines.
In the continental United States (CONUS), surprise ballistic missile attacks by many converted Chinese
container ships had been devastating. Every major U.S. Navy shipyard and construction yard up and
down the East and West Coasts, and even on the Gulf Coast, had been hit and severally damaged.
Thousands of workers were dead and many thousands more injured. New ships, in particular the new
destroyer and carrier designs that were about to be launched, had been destroyed in place. The White
House, the Capitol building, and the Pentagon had all been virtually destroyed by conventional ballistic
missiles launched from converted Chinese container ships lying off the coast in international waters. Many
elected and appointed government officials had been killed, including the Vice President, some senior
members of the cabinet and many congressmen and senators in this “decapitation” strike by PLAN
forces. The President himself, NormWeisskopf , had narrowly escaped the same fate as he and his wife
were whisked away from the White House in Marine One in the very nick of time.
Terror attacks by individuals and groups of individuals had disrupted many areas within the United
States, killing thousands of U.S. citizens. These attacks were continuing. Power was off to large potions
of the American West. In St Louis, a large commercial business area was destroyed in a huge propane
explosion, killing several thousand citizens. Several dams had been breached near major metropolitan
areas and one large office complex in the Chicago area had been attacked. A number of major bridges
had been destroyed along the Mississippi River, and attacks aimed at locks and storage areas were
continuing up and down the river by heavily armed small craft.
In the Middle East, U.S. forces that had been conducting strategic withdrawals in Saudi Arabia and
Turkey to buy time for reinforcement and re-supply were stunned by the news. Critical forces that had
been allocated for America’s emergency relief effort in Korea were now lost. Critical re-supply efforts
and materiel that were in route to the Middle East were now going to have to be shared while America
built up to defend itself at home and to fight large major wars on two fronts. The morale and logistics
impact of the defeat in the Pacific thus had ominous implications for the war in the Middle East, where
America and her allies were already not faring well.
America’s allies were extremely concerned. Their own defense capabilities had always been tied to the
might of America, and now as the western world’s financial system tumbled towards massive depression
and failure, some questioned their own future course of action. England, Canada, Germany, and Australia
remained strong, but France, Italy, Greece and Spain were wavering.
Enemy nations were ecstatic at the success of the surprise attacks and there were celebrations in the
streets of Beijing, Shanghai, Tehran, Baghdad, Damascus, Islamabad, Tripoli, and to a lesser extent in
New Delhi, Bombay, and Calcutta. Those nations were rapidly moving forward with their plans to
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