Background Timeline, It shows mostly American Events that effect the United States of America and other events needed to understand how this United States took shape.
POD: The French win the Battle of Pueblo in Mexico in 1862 and by early 1864 are able to set up a puppet kingdom in Mexico.
American Civil War 1861-64
The US has a shorter civil war due Kearny not being killed and taking over for McClellan and leads the AofP for the rest of the war. The war is still fairly violent but there isn’t as much as back and for that there was in OTL. Lee and his army surrenders in March 64. Davis dies on the run to Cuba in an effort to escape Union Forces. Forrest also dies on the battlefield in one of the last battles of the war. By Late April 64 all CSA field forces have surrendered and the civil war is over.
Alaskan Buy 1867
Per OTL
Territorial Changes: Alaska becomes an American Territory.
Annexation of the Santo Domingo 1869
The President Kearny ITL is able to get enough votes to get for the annexation treaty through the Senate and it is ratified.
Territorial Changes: Santo Domingo becomes an American Territory.
Franco-Prussian War 1870-71
Largely OTL. Only the peace treaty is radically different than OTL. The French pay a much larger Indemnity than OTL. The borders of Alsace-Lorraine are also slightly different.
Territorial Change: Alsace-Lorraine becomes an Imperial Territory of the newly formed German Empire. Alsace-Lorraine ITL also includes Briey-Longwy in it.
Spanish American War 1873-74
The US and Spanish come to blows in 1873 after a crisis where Americans die in Cuba, close to what almost caused the war in OTL around this time in OTL. It takes some time for the US to get the upper hand against the Spanish as it left the army and navy go to shit since 1864. But after 16 months of fighting the US is able to force the Spanish to the table and agree to their terms.
Territorial Changes: Cuba, Puerto Rico, and all the Central Pacific Islands of Spain become American Territories.
Philippines Buy by Germany 1876
In the aftermath of their defeat in the Spanish American War, Spain was left in a bad place. Germany who have those wanting Germany to be a great power and all Great Powers have colonies. This forces Bismarck to buy the Philippines using part of the French Indemnity to pay for it.
Territorial Changes: The Philippines become a German Colony.
Second Mexican-American War 1885-87
Mexico had been under the Maximilian since the French back Mexicans won a major battle in Mexico in 1863 against the republican forces, which forced them to ground by early 1864. Following the French defeat in the Franco Prussian War, it forced Maximilian to stand on his own without French support. This causes him to force things through to make new laws and his base of support slowly starts going away. By 1883 there is open fighting between said Maximilian’s troops and rebels. The US supports the rebels wanting to kick Maximilian out of the New World.
In 1885 the Mexicans loyal to Maximilian into a fire fight with American Cavalry who are supplying weapons to rebel troops. Things are worked in such a way that a war is fought. The US didn’t let the army go totally to shit since 1874 but it takes time for the US to drive on Mexico City. By Late 87 a treaty is signed with the reformed Mexican Republic. The US in return for Debt Relief and Loan Help the US is allowed to annex some of Northwest Mexico as the Mexican Republic is effetely broke.
Territorial Changes: Baja (All of it) and Sonora become American Territories.
First Sino-Japanese War 1894-95
Again this is largely OTL, and Japan cleans the Chinese Clock in this war. The Japanese press for and get a slightly larger indemnity than OTL. But the Triple Intervention still happens ITL, but ITL only the Double Intervention as its only the French and Russians who pressure the Japanese to give up Port Arthur. Germany under the Regent Prince Henry decided it’s not worth the headache nor in their SOI in China.
Territorial Changes: The Pescadores Islands and Formosa become Japanese Colonies. Port Arthur becomes a Russian Territory.
Hawaii Annexation 1898
Per OTL
Territorial Changes: Hawaii Becomes an American Territory.
Treaty Port/Boxer Rebellion 1898-1901.
The US doesn’t go down the part of the Open Door Notes ITL. Instead they decide to get a treaty port, and they got the Kiautschou Bay Concession(Same size as OTL). The Boxer Rebellion happens per OTL and is crushed just as badly. The US gets a larger share of the Boxer Indemnity at about the same level as OTL UK, France gets about what the US had and the Japanese pick up the remaining difference. The US also gain a concession in Tianjin.
Territorial Changes: Kiautschou Bay Concession and the OTL French Concession in Tianjin become American Leased Territories.
ITL Tripartite Convention 1901
The Americans and Germans ITL work out a deal with the British playing middleman over Samoa Island Claims.
Territorial Changes: American Samoa and Samoa become an American Territory. Palau becomes a German Colony.
Panama Canal Treaty 1905
The US is able to get a treaty out of Colombia to get the Panama Canal Built without Panama breaking off from Colombia.
Territorial Changes: The Panama Canal Zone becomes an American Leased Territory.
Russo-Japanese War 1904-05
To the shock of the world the Japanese royally kick the Russian’s ass in this war. This includes the Japanese forcing the surrender of an army at Mukden which accounts for ¼ of the Russian strength at Mukden. At ITL Tsushima the Japanese capture two more cruisers than OTL including the payroll for the Russian Fleet. The Japanese do better at the peace table but still don’t get an indemnity that they wanted.
Territorial Changes: Port Arthur and Sakhalin become Japanese Colonies.
Third Mexican-American War 1907-1910
The Third Mexican Republic that formed in the aftermath of the Second Mexican-American War was never that stable. The president of Mexican Republic is a revolving door of people with none holding office for more than 14 months. In 1904 things finally breakdown into a civil war. In 1907 a Battle of Columbus like raid happens. Unlike OTL President Roosevelt goes full war mode against the Mexicans instead of the Punitive Expedition of OTL. The US still has a small army and it entered a multi-side civil war and it takes time for the US Army to reach Mexico City. Once in Mexico City it takes the better part of five months to find someone to sign a peace treaty. The US just adds another territory to its nation and gets damn good trade deals with the Mexicans.
Territorial Changes: Chihuahua becomes an American Territory.
Second Sino-Japanese War 1916-1918
Japan gets a reason to go to war with China that is largely viewed by the rest of the world as a legit reason for war. China still hasn’t recovered from the first war with Japan or the Boxer Rebellion a few years later and its leadership is shaky at best of times, at worst of times its infighting and outright civil war. The Japanese are also much improved since their showings in the last two major wars its fought. Like Third Mexico, the Japanese are fighting in a multi-side cluster fuck and they have to force a peace treaty at the end of 1918 to get an exit from the war. They get a very large indemnity from the Chinese on top of the territory they annex.
Territorial Changes: Manchuria, Hainan, and Amoy all become Japanese Colonies.
Anti-Foreign Rebellion in China 1920-23
Following it defeats in 1918 at the hands of the Japanese the Chinese go foaming in the mouth crazy and with a heavy anti-foreign mind set. After a number of skirmishes between Chinese and all of the Foreign Treaty ports and a number of dead foreign nationals the Eight-Power Alliance reforms and goes into China. Only this time the Chinese really make the Eight-Power Alliance work for it. Airplanes also see the first wide spread use in warfare, through that honor of first use when to the Italo-Turk War and the three different Balkan Wars fought between 1910-1916. But the scale in China in 20-23 is far larger than others. It’s a bloody affair but in 23 the Chinese finally see that they are well and truly fucked and sign a peace treaty with the Eight-Power Alliance. The Chinese doesn’t lose anymore territory but all of the lease ports and concession in Tianjin become in perpetuity control instead of the 99 year leases that had been signed in 1898. They also pay a very large indemnity of 1 billion taels of fine silver to the eight power alliance. The US gets about a 17.5% stake in this indemnity. Unlike OTL the US doesn’t remitted either this indemnity or the Boxer indemnity ITL and all that money goes to the US.
Territorial Changes: Kiautschou Bay Concession and the OTL French Concession in Tianjin become full American Territories.
Greenland Buy 1926
The US wants Greenland more than what would be the OTL USVI so they buy it from the Danish and the use their Chinese Indemnities to buy it.
Territorial Change: The Greenland becomes an American Territory.
The Pacific War 1941-44
WWI as we know it never happened. However, war in Europe comes in 1938 and last till 1944. Thanks to the efforts of Wilhelm III and Germany in general they are able force the French to watch from the sidelines as Germany, Austria-Hungary, the British Empire, and others jump on Russia in a fairly massive war that reshapes Europe. The Europeans really don’t piss the US off enough to join the war. Besides the US sells to both sides via third parties or directly and make a killing. But the US starts to build up its military because of this war. Japan thinks about joining this war against Russia but they are in their own bullshit war in China that started in 1935 and can’t afford to commit the resources or deals needed to make joining this war worth their time. At the same time the US is pissing the Japanese off in their war in China as the US is selling the Chinese as they are the only one with the slack abilities at this time.
The Japanese attack the American enclaves in China and their Pacifica Territory after peace efforts fail with the US playing middle man. This brings the US down on the Japanese hard and even worse than the OTL Pacific War as the US isn’t fighting in Europe as well as the same time. The ITL Pacific War is just as bloody as OTL and it ends when the US invades Kyushu in 1944 after performing an ITL Operation Olympic. The US and their Chinese allies don’t agree on the division of the spoils of war but the Chinese know better than the piss the US off again at this point of the game as they don’t have anything left in the tank. They don’t officially recognize the territory the US annexes at the end of the war save for some stuff they didn’t care about at any point, but the US doesn’t care.
Territory Changes: Manchuria (Minus Port Arthur) become part of China proper. Hainan, Amoy, Japanese Concession in Tianjin, Port Arthur, Sakhalin, Kuril Islands, Pescadores Islands, Formosa, Okinawa, and Iwo Jima, become American Territories. Korea is set up as an American Puppet. Japan also becomes an American puppet. Japan also gives up all indemnities China owes her.
US States in 2016 that were not states OTL
51) Santo Domingo, 52) Cuba 53) Puerto Rico, 54) Pacifica (Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands), 55) Baja (The whole Peninsula), 56) Sonora, 57) Chihuahua, 58) Hainan, 59) Sakhalin (Sakhalin and Kuril Islands), 60) Formosa (Formosa and Pescadores Islands)
Organized Territories in the US in 2016 that weren’t part of the US OTL
-On the Path to Statehood in 2016
Roosevelt Territory (OTL Kiautschou Bay Concession), Samoa Territory (American Samoa and Samoa), Amoy Territory, and Port Arthur Territory are all working on statehood in 2016. There is ongoing debate about if the American Concession in Tianjin(OTL French and Japanese Concessions in Tianjin) can join Port Arthur or the Roosevelt Territory once they become a state. But the citizens in the American Concession support the idea of statehood.
-Not currently working to statehood
Panama Canal Zone(Lease in perpetuity from Colombia), Greenland
Excerpts from the MI6 World Factbook, 2016 Edition
United States
Ethnic Groups
White: 85.14%, Black 9.32%, Asian 4.76%, Native or Pacific Islander 0.78%
Population
363,310,314, per 2010 US Census, Projected 375,493,318 in 2016
Migration
Hard cap of 750,000 per year set by the Immigration Act of 1955
Notes: US service members who are married overseas are not counted under the Immigration Act of 1955. Migration from the Republics of Japan and Korea also fall under different rules than the hard cap set by the Immigration Act of 1955. With these rules its projected that in a year over 1 million people migrate to the United States annually.
Life Expectancy
Total Population: 82.3 years
Male: 79.9 years
Female: 84.5 years
International Relations
Full Alliance Treaties with the Republic of Korea and the Republic of Japan.
Monroe Doctrine is viewed by the United States as in effect for Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. In the past few years this viewed has been challenged by South American nations.
Outside these areas the United States has little to do with the International Diplomatic that is currently controlled by either the British or German Empire. The fact notwithstanding the US has the ability to do so it just chooses not to.
Relations with the Republic of China are poor and the ROC has territorial claims on Two US States and Four American Territories. Cross border fire fights are common but seldom last more than a few minutes.
Gross National Product
Total: 27.6 trillion Dollars (2nd)
Per Capita: 65,340 Dollars (4th)
Budget
Revenues: 4.9 Trillion Dollars
Expenditures: 4.1 Trillion Dollars
Taxes
Ranges from 10 to 65% per Income
Public Debt
28.4% of GDP and going down
Military Branches
United States Army, United States Navy, United States Air Force, United States Marine Corp, US Coast Guard(Note 1), Civilian Conservation Corp(Note 2)
Note 1 in Peace Time the US Coast Guard operates under the Department of Treasury. In times of war it falls under the control of the Department of Defense and War.
Note 2 in Peace Time the Civilian Conservation Corp operates under the Department of the Interior. In times of war time it falls under the control of the Department of Defense and War.
Military Expenditures
3.9% of GDP per year average for the past five years.
Conscription
Currently there are no Conscription Calls within the United States. However, both males and females have to register with the Selective Service System in the event of conscription returning to the United States. Current age for this is 17 through 24 if conscription calls were to return to the United States.
Note this not count the Conscription into the Civilian Conservation Corp. This falls under different rules than the other military branches. Failure to finished secondary level of education causes youths in America to be conscripted into the CCC for a period of 24 months once they turn 17 and if they are already out of the education system or when they failed out of secondary school after they turn 17.
Air Force Two
Somewhere over the Atlantic
August 3 2016
Vice President Joe Biden was currently reviewing his notes for his planned meeting with President Erdogan. With the ongoing issues in Turkey since the fail coup effort, well Turkey had been a handful since the coup and he wanted to make sure he had it right. It was the reason he had taken over this trip of Secretary of State John Kerry. Turkey had long been an ally of the United States, but under Erdogan it had burn many bridges and Joe wanted to see if he could mend a few fences.
As he was reviewing his notes for this meeting an Air Force Captain came into the room being used by Biden, “Sir you need to come to comm center now.”
That caused Joe to look up from his notes and he noticed that this captain was white as a ghost. That was never a good sign. That caused Joe to drop his notes and started to run to the communication center of Air Force Two. As Biden ran he noticed that more than a few officers he passed were also white as a ghost. His mind started to think of the worse case. The US was under a nuclear attack.
Being the C-32 had an advance commutation center that allowed who ever was using one to speak to whoever they needed to make their choices wisely. The Marine Colonel who was assigned to Biden’s military staff spoke, “Sir at 0831 Eastern Standard we lost contact with the United States as a whole. At first we believed this to be a technical fault, but we were wrong sir. Show him sergeant.”
Before Vice President Biden could asked a question, an air force NCO flipped a switch and it started playing real time TV feed from the American-Canadian Border. The local news reporter was from CBLT-DT and it was clear he was in a state of shock. But he had the wear about him to do his job. “For those of you that are just joining us about 25 minutes ago a green wall of light came crashing down on the Americans side of the border. Since that time everything on the other side of the border has been a total blank. No radio, telephone, nothing has made it through this wall of light. The few efforts to break through the wall of light had been deadly.”
Indeed, in the background was the wreck of a semi that must have been crossing the border at the time. The back of the trailer was clean cut as if done by a laser. Unseen was the corpse of one of the Canadian border guards who had tried to see what was on the other side of the wall of light. When he touched the wall he was thrown back as if he had been struck by a car. When his coworkers reached him he was already dead. Biden was studying the video feed that was coming in as the reporter was saying he was being order to fall back by the Royal Mounted Police. “Sergeant kill the feed.” The colonel order.
“What do we know Colonel?”
“The information we have at the moment is confusing. The United States is totally dark with this green wall of light around most of it.”
“What do you mean most of it?”
“Sergeant pull up the map.” The sergeant pressed a few buttons. A map of the world came up and the area of this light had hit and was effecting was show in a green tint. All 50 states of the US were covered in this tint. But so was Japan, both Koreas, and parts of Mexico.
Biden study the map, “Has any of this been confirmed yet?”
“Its not confirmed yet sir. We are still trying to get information but we have received news reports of this wall of light following the Mexican state borders of Chihuahua and Sonora before going into the Gulf of California. We believe that this light is covering all of the Baja Peninsula, but have yet to confirm that. Efforts to raise forces in both Japan and South Korea has ended in failure.”
Before the Colonel could go on one of the other sergeants in the communication center handed him a telefax report. The Colonel read it than handed to the sergeant who was running the station they were standing behind. “Add parts of China to this sir. What are your orders?”
“Get me in touch with Xi ASAP. Then give me a link to NATO.”
Air Force One
Williams Air Force Base [1]
August 3 2016
The VC-192[2] rolled down the taxi ways far faster than the normally enforced speed limit set by the USAF. Then again when a plane was performing a combat take off, many rules that normally governed air operations when out the window. Even more so when the aircraft in question was carrying the President of the United States. Reports of a green light wall at the border of the Contiguous United States quickly worked their way up the chain of command. With this being an unknown event and tensions rising with the British over Brazil it was decided to treat this unknown event as a nuclear or kinetic weapon first strike. That meant getting the president airborne.
Inside the VC-192 was President Sharleen Jefferson. Just by looking at her one could see she was terrified of flying. She was gripping the arm rest in the chair as she had her eyes shut and focusing on her breathing. One of her Secret Service agents who was assigned to her detail was coaching her through her fears. She normally took Army One[3] when she was travelling in Contiguous United States. However, she was due to meet with the Japanese and Korean prime ministers in Tokyo tomorrow for a summit on the Chinese issues they were facing at the moment. As such she took Air Force One to Williams AFB to go on the stump for her vice president for the 2016 election. She was following the unwritten two term rule written by the father of the nation George Washington and not running for a third term. However, she was doing everything in her power to make sure her VP one in November and with New Mexico being a bellwether state she decided to stump here before going on to Tokyo.
Once the VC-192 was on the runway the pilots pushed the throttle to the firewall to take the Pratt and Houston engine to their max power settings. Air Force One quickly started picking up speed as it when down the runway. Using far less than what was the normal amount of runway for the four engine jet the pilots pulled the joysticks back to lift the massive aircraft into the air. Its angle of attack was far steeper than normal for a take off as gaining altitude was key at the moment. In far less time than normal 32,000 feet was reached. Once at the high it leveled off.
As Air Force One returned to level flight Sharleen’s breathing started returning to normal. Well close to normal. She was still scared shitless even through she was flying in an aircraft that some of the highest maintain standards in the world. Once her breathing was under control again she let go of the death grip she had on the armrest. She then open her eyes as she had enough of her wits together now. She stood up and spoke, “Mike what can you tell me what is going on? And why the fuck I had to be put through that?”
Mike was Captain Mike Tanaka of the United States Navy. He was the military chief of staff assigned to her detail and handle many questions she had about military matters. “Madam President, as you were informed on your way to Williams AFB, there is a green light around the Contiguous 51. We simply don’t know what is going on.” He said as he walked beside her on the way do the communication deck of the aircraft.
“Are we in touch with the Island states or our territories?” She asked.
“No, we are not Madam President. No electronic signals are getting through this wall.”
“What about our space base assets?”
“At best its touch and go. If they are over the Contiguous 51 we are in touch with them. But once they pass over the border we lose touch with them.”
“Are we sure this isn’t a British first strike?” The Americans and British were currently at an impasse over Brazil. The British wanted to expand its control into the Americas outside of Canada, the Caribbean, and British Honduras. The US wanted to keep the Americas a United States playground. The British through had friends in Rio de Janeiro who wanted to get out from under the thumb of the US.
“Honestly, we don’t have the first idea what is happening.” At that point the president and her naval aid reach the communication deck of Air Force One. “Sergeant pull it up.”
The sergeant who was manning the station flipped a switch and punched a few commands into his computer and brought up what the captain wanted to so the president. It was the space base assets of the United States that had been in orbit at this morning. The ones that had passed over the US were in bold and the ones that happened been in touch with the 25th Air Force were in a light tent. She when through the list fairly quickly. “Damn it. Put SAC on DEFCON Two. The rest of our forces put on DEFCON Three. Mobilize thee air force and naval aviation reserves and guard units.”
[1] Roughly where Holloman AFB is OTL
[2] Think a Boeing 747-8 with VC-25 mods
[3] Think a TGV 2N2 with mods for transporting the president.
Near Xiamen
Forward Edge of Contact
August 3 2016
Members of the First Amphibious Mechanized Infantry Division of the PLA had been mobilized to form a defensive line around Xiamen. This was one of four areas on the mainland where an odd green light had formed. Both Hainan and Formosa had been placed under the same odd green light. With the unknown being one of the greatest fears of the senior Chinese Leadership they had ordered the military to set up lines around these areas about 90 minutes after the event started. This was after Vice President Biden had personally spoken General Secretary Xi Jinping and Biden told Xi that this wasn’t the doing of the United States.
Once Xi understood that the US was being hit even harder than China had been and that this light seem to followed defend borders he decided to move units to be ready for whatever happened. The PLA was moving units to the three towns that were affected by this and moving the PLAN to Hainan. The PLA was also moving units to the frontier with North Korea. The world was on edge since this had started, almost six hours ago. By this time most media outlets and intelligence agencies had figured out where the effective areas were. Then right at the six hour mark of this odd green light showing up it when away.
Lieutenant Colonel Sum Yaochuan was on the radio with regimental when the light came down. He dropped the radio at what he saw. There was a huge sign that had what he believed to be English writing on top. Below that was in both Chinese and English and it read, “You are about to enter the Amoy Territory, United States of America. Prepare to stop and be searched. Failure to follow orders places you at the risk of bodily harm or death.” On looking closer at the sign there were clear sign of bullet holes in the sign.
Sum picked the radio back up and reported what he saw. He also noticed that the roads didn’t match up on either side of where the green light had been. He then noticed a number of soldiers on the other side. They were wearing a uniform unlike anything he had seen before.
Amoy Territory
Forward Edge of Battle
Because of all the fire fights with the Republic of China, the areas within two miles of the border had been declared a forward edge of battle zone back in 1965. The Republic of China on a regular basis had demanded the return of the Amoy Territory and other territories held by the United States on the Chinese mainland, but the US answer was always the same; No. To the United States these territories were as American as New York City or Atlanta. The Amoy Territory was the favorite to be the first American state in Asia itself, and this was mostly because it served as the gateway to Chinese trade via Formosa which had been the first state admitted to the Union from territories annexed at the end of the Pacific War in 1993.
Lt Colonel Mike Garrity was at his command post for the 1st Battalion of the 191st Military Police Regiment. Once the green light dropped after it’s six hour stay he noticed one thing right away. They weren’t in Oklahoma anymore. Picking up his radio, “Justice Base this is Tonto One.”
After a second, “Tonto One this is Justice Base go ahead.”
“Justice Base, the other side of the border is radically different.”
“Please explain Tonto One.”
“Justice Base, unless the Chinks[1] have pulled off the mother of all miracles in those six hours we aren’t in Oklahoma anymore.”
“Stand by Tonto One. Standard ROE is still in effect.”
Mike put down his radio and picked up his M-39 submachine gun[2] and checked it. Everyone who was assigned to the forward edge of battle areas of the American Chinese border always carried at least two weapons if not more. As an officer mike carried the M-39 which was a sweet little number. He also carried a Colt M1909 Special[3]. As an officer Mike had the choice to buy his own personal sidearm, which coming from money he decided to use that right and brought a Colt M1909 Special in flat black. He like the extra round that the M1909 Special had over the M32 pistol[4] that was issued but that came at the cost of extra weight. Mike didn’t mind that through as it wasn’t much but having that extra round ready for use could and had made the difference more than once.
American Chinese relations were poor and had been for decades and showed no sign of getting better. Then again, the Chinese had poor relations with just about everyone. They regularly demanded back the German, British, Dutch, French, and American ports up and down the Chinese coast along with all the Concessions in Tianjin be return to them. They further demand from the US that return Formosa and Hainan. That was likely to happen as hell freezing over or Lucifer praying to God for help. Some things just don’t happen. But the Chinese hated everyone and blame them for the hell that the Chinese had gone through since 1894. But everyone else viewed it as their own fault and they needed to man up put on their big boy pants and grow up. Then again that was as likely as the French getting over their inferiority complex.
For China had been through three different civil wars and warlord periods. Currently the strongman in Peking had won the last civil war that was fought in China over 20 years ago. But he was old and there was no clear person with the strength needed to hold China together and keep her from falling into a fourth warlord/civil war period. Generally, most Americans felt sorry for the Chinese and their piss poor leadership. But instead of the shacks and shanty towns that had long been a common sight along the American-Chinese border there were factories and well built town on the border. This was a major change of pace to what the border guards and military units who garrisoned the forward edge of battle area were used to.
Mike then noticed two Chinese in uniforms he had never seen before coming forward under a flag of truce. Mike picked up the radio, “Justice Base, Tonto One.”
“Tonto One this is Justice Base go ahead.”
“Justice base I have two Chinese coming forward under a flag of truce.”
After a few seconds, “Tonto One, standard Parley ROE.”
“WILCO, Justice Base. Tonto One out.”
At that Mike put down his radio again. “Sergeant Jackson, you’re with me. Lets go see what they want.”
“Yes sir.” Sergeant Lisa Jackson answered.
[1] The use of racial slurs ITL outside of Chinese is generally frown on and rarely happen. But given the history of American Chinese relations, and indeed Chinese relations with the whole world, no one really cares about what they get called.
[2] Think KRISS Vector in .45ACP with a 30 round stick magazine.
[3] Think Para Ordnance P-14s.
[4] Think Glock 21.
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Lt Colonel Mike Garrity walked out from his command post and started walking to the area that they used for parley meetings with the Chinese. It was a trip he seemed to make about every few weeks. It generally happened in the aftermath of a cross-border firefight with his unit. The Chinese either wanted to get any of their wounded back who were stuck in the no-man’s land between the border and the shanty town that was on the other side of the border or they were there to demand Amoy back. However, this time was different and Mike knew it.
For Lt Colonel Sum Yaochuan this was something he wasn’t trained for. His division had been reformed to allow the PLA gain experience in amphibious warfare. The division was to help defend the Chinese historical rights in the South China Sea from all comers as well as having a mean to lash out at the Republican inbreeds on Formosa when the time came for that. However, for Sum, no officer in his division had been trained for a defensive meeting engagement and one where the party was an unknown.
Once the Chinese officer was close enough Mike called out in Chinese, “That’s close enough.” Mike had learn how to speak Chinese because most Chinese simply refused to learn how to speak anything else.
This caused Sum to be taken back. Who was this American to be given him orders on Chinese soil? As he looked around he noticed a border marker about a meter or two from where he stood. “What are you doing on Chinese territory Yankee?!” Sum asked.
“What are you talking about? Amoy had been an American territory since 1944.”
“You mean Xiamen?” Sum asked.
“Never heard of Xiamen.” Mike answered and was unaware of a number of points at the moment. Before giving the ball back the Chinese officer he spoke again. “Who am I’m speaking to?”
“Lt Colonel Yaochuan, First Amphibious Mechanized Infantry Division of the PLA. Who are you Yankee?”
“Lt Colonel Garrity, 191st Military Police Regiment US Army. What is the PLA I never heard of it before?”
‘What?’ Sum thought. “I don’t care. I demand you leave Chinese territory before we force you do leave it.”
“Listen buster, I don’t give a jack either but we aren’t leaving. Any efforts to take Amoy with force will be met with force. But something strange has just happened, and let’s wait a moment before we start trying to kill each other.”
“No! You will leave now!” Sum thinking of his career. Letting the Americans to keep a foothold in China would destroy it and he would get station in remote ass Tibet because of that. That’s the last thing he wanted.
Mike didn’t even answer that. He slowly started walking backwards knowing his battalion snipers were covering him. But he wasn’t about to give the Chinese his back. Even with kevlar on, there was a chance it could hit in areas that weren’t covered. He didn’t want a fourth Purple Heart.
Sum just watched as the Americans walked backward. He knew nothing else was going to happen here. So, he started to walk back to his command post to start planning an attack on the Yankees. As he walked back he was unaware four different snipers had him in their sights and waiting for the word to drop the fool.
Air Force Two
Near the United Kingdom Air Space
August 3 2016
If one looked outside the windows of the C-32 that was transporting Vice President Joe Biden one could see a pair of RAF Typhoon fighter jets escorting the aircraft. This was because of the state of for lack of better words of panic that was setting in the remaining United States military command along with the same sense of panic within NATO. The only land area that was territorial part of this world’s United States that hadn’t wasn’t touched by this odd green light was the US Virgin Islands. This green light had covered every other piece of territorial legally own by the United States. But this green light also covered two nations in the Caribbean, four Mexican States, the area around the Panama Canal but it was larger than the Canal Zone, Greenland, a whole mess of Pacific Islands that include islands own by Japan, Japan itself, both Koreas, a Russian oblast, and chunks of land own by the People’s Republic of China. Everything was in chaos at the moment as everyone was trying to get a grip on things.
One of the sergeants in the communication section of the C-32 spoke up, “Mister Vice President, Secretary Xi Jinping is wanting to speak with you. He seems to be an enraged state and I don’t think he wants to wait.”
“Theresa I will need to get back to you.”
“Go ahead Joe. I will speak with you when you touched down.” With everything going on it was decided that the C-32 would go to the United Kingdom instead of Turkey. Joe had already spoken to the leaders of the UK, France, Germany, Canada, China, and Russia to try and keep this from starting a war by mistake, and it seemed the Chinese wanted to talk again.
The call with Prime Minister Theresa May was shut down at that. The sergeant running the communication section flipped a few switches and a video feed came in from Beijing. Xi Jinping spoke than his translator spoke. “Mister Biden General Secretary Xi wishes to know why the United States has invaded the People’s Republic of China.”
Joe Biden was shocked by this. He knew the Chinese had been trying to undermined the power of the US over the past decade and that caused the lack of title. But the US military brass had long view a land war with the Chinese as something as unwinnable and wouldn’t even be tried. The plan as it stood called of aerial strikes and blockade of the Chinese coast if the two nations came to blows and assuming it didn’t go nuclear. After a moment pause Joe spoke, “Mister Xi, the US has not invaded the Chinese nation nor would we.”
After the translators did their job, Xi said, “You are lying. There are four areas on the mainland that are now under American control along with Hainan and Formosa. The Republic of Korea is now up to the border with us. Why has the United States performed this war of aggression?”
“Mister Xi I’m not lying. I have no reason to lie. A strange event had just finished. Think about it. My America has not invaded your nation. We are working on the idea that an alternate version of the United States in some way we can understand has been transported here.”
“That may make some sense.” Xi admitted after thinking about it for a second or two. “But what about the Republic of Korea being on our border in Northern China.”
“For that I don’t know or have an answer for unless it came from the same event that caused this alternate US to transported here.”
Before Biden could go on one of the Sergeants spoke, “Sir I have a President Sharleen Jefferson wanting to speak to you. She is claiming that she is the President of the United States.” The United States, well in the land that called itself the United States had worked with the Canadians to get in touch with the US of this world to see if they could figure out what was going on. They had been able to speak to their allies in Seoul and Tokyo. But the rest of the world was not connected to the US anymore. Only quick work between the other Americans and the Canadians had caused President Jefferson to be able to get a link to the C-32 carrying Vice President Biden.
“Stall her. I need to get this under control.” Biden turned back to the Chinese leader, “Mister Secretary, we have both seen something that normal science as I understand can’t possibly answer. Let’s agree to start a cool down period to keep this from becoming a war over something we can’t possible explain.”
After a moment or two Xi spoke again, “How long of a cool down period?”
“36 hours so be just fine.” Biden answered.
“Very well then. So long as these Americans do not attack, we will not either.”
At that video feed from China was cut. Biden rubbed his neck as this had not been a good day. But if he could keep WWIII from happening it would be worth it. After taking a moment to calm himself he spoke, “Ok put me through the person claiming to be the president of this other United States.” Biden said. After a second, “God those are orders I never thought I would give.”
It took a moment, but the picture of President Jefferson was coming in 5/5 in the C-32 that Vice President Biden was in. She spoke first, “Mister Vice President, you care to tell me how your US ended up in a mess of alliance system with the Europeans?” The US that had just shown up was quickly trying to learn about the world it had landed in. It was further trying to learn if all its naval and merchant marine that had been out at sea had been brought to this strange new world as well. What it was learning about the US of this world was deeply worrying to everyone who was feeding themselves this raw intelligence. Some of this raw intelligence had already been handed to President Jefferson and her team.
It was clear she was calling from the Oval Office or a damn good Hollywood set as Biden study the video feed. But that wasn’t a question he could possibly answer. “Madam President, what could you mean by such a statement?” How could any US not become in world affairs and that meant dealing with the Europeans? Biden pondered that question and nothing came to his mind. The look on President Jefferson’s face said everything through.
Near, Amoy Territory
PLA Artillery Park
August 3 2016
Even through General Secretary Xi Jinping had just promised Vice President and de facto President Joe Biden that his military wouldn’t attack these new Americans, the PLA communication network was overloaded and overworked. It was having issues keeping up with the flash traffic that was going to and coming from Beijing. This was because it had never been stress tested before. Now the faults in the system were being found out. But it was the worst possible time to learn about these issues. As such the orders to keep from attacking these new Americans never reached the First Amphibious Mechanized Infantry Division in time.
For the signal intelligence units attached to the First Amphibious Mechanized Division they were picking up signals coming from the American control areas around Xiamen that they couldn’t figure out. This alone was scaring the signal intelligence people. Then again, they weren’t use to going up against counter battery and mapping LIDAR either. It was one of the side effects of having three great powers in the world that the US had come from. All three were able to perform advance research and development independently of each other. It wasn’t like the cold war of this world where the Soviet Union was only kept in the game because of a great ground game by its spy agencies. No in the world this new US came from the three Great Powers were performing their tangent in terms of technology. One area the US was really pushing hard was the use of LIDAR as a way to counter Chinese artillery strikes. And since finding itself in this new world the US had been running both their mapping and counter battery LIDAR to build up a detail picture of the world they were in and to keep their ass safe from the pissed off Chinese.
It was because of this LIDAR that the US knew of a pair of AVIC 601-S Dark Sword UCAVs and five more Guizhou WX-2000 UAVs that were flying near their border. So far none of the UAVs had made an effort to come into American air space, but that hadn’t stopped the US from working on some old tricks it had learned the hard way. The US has given up on the idea of unmanned combat vehicles for one simple reason. It could be hijacked by able computer hackers. This was a lesson they learned in the 1990s along the border of Mexico after a few of their early efforts at UAVs were hijacked in such a manner. It was widely believed that it was a British effort that led the effort to highjack these UAVs. It was these events that caused the US to give up on using UAVs for military uses. But, they had returned the favor to the Chinese more than once since then who were building their own shitty UAVs and buying French ones which were fairly good designs, even if they were the monkey models for export.
Then time came for the attack. The pair of Dark Sword UCAVs which the Chinese believed which had a low enough radar cross section turned from their orbits about 30 clicks away from American Amoy. Two Batteries of PLZ-89s which were 13 kilometers away from new border was brought too ready by their commanders. Both the UCAVs and SPGs were being fed targeting information via the five WX-2000 UAVs which was orbiting the areas outside the new border area. This information from these UAVs were also being fed to a squadron of armed Changhe Z-11s who were just taking off to take in the second wave of the attack. The idea was the UCAVs would take out the anti-air defenses in the American lines. Once the air-defenses were down the Z-11s would come in and blast strong points with their Hongjian-8 Anti-tank missiles.
In support was the PLAAF. One of the rare KJ-2000 airborne early warning and control aircraft was flying about 100 kilometers from the new border was pounding the airwaves with its radar. It was being escorted by a pair of Chengdu J-10 fighters. Currently the KJ-2000’s radar was only picking up a hand full of aircraft in the air over the American held Chinese territory. It also had on call three fighter divisions to sweep the skies if it was needed. But the targets currently over the American held territory by their flight patterns and speed subjected that they were ELINT aircraft of an unknown type. However the KJ-2000 was failing to pick up the four American F-201 Hawk Fighters[1] that were flying CAP over the Amoy Territory.
For the Chinese they believed they were about to perform a well-planned attack that had the element of surprise. It was a well-planned attack if only they had the element of surprise. They had failed to understand or try to figure out if there was any differences between these new Americans and the ones they were used to dealing with. They were about to find out that these new Americans were a different breed.
[1] Think F-22 Raptors but more advance
Amoy City
US Army Electronic Warfare CIC
August 3 2016
Major Lee “Burner” Bamber was standing behind the bank of computer screens and techs in the CIC of the US Army’s EW hub in Amoy. Currently the former flier was the officer in charge of the CIC and he was watching the real-time feed of information coming into the CIC. Lee had been grounded after his UH-51[1] was shot down during Operation High Wire[2] back in 2010 to stabilize Haiti. In one hand was his cane which he needed to walk with nowadays. In the other was an old family lighter that had been passed down from his great grandfather to him over four generations. He was snapping it open and closing it again to keep his hands busy at the moment.
With his eye were trained on the main screen in the CIC he was watching the real-time LIDAR read outs of the area around the Amoy Territory. He was keeping his eyes on the pair of “stealth” UAVs. He like the rest of the US military were noticing the heavy use of UAVs in this world which was something they had given up for military use a long time ago. They had decided it was best to always have a human in the loop so it couldn’t have the keys to your military taken from you. That’s not saying they didn’t have uses for them, but they just weren’t for military use. Burner and the rest had figured out those two “stealth” UAVs were more than likely good against old radar, but again their LIDAR they were fucked. They briefly wondered if this world was that far behind their own.
As the seconds were ticking by Lee noticed a change in the flight plan of the two “stealth” UAVs. “Bring it in on those targets Fox and George.” Burner called out. Those were the two “stealth” UAVs that were trying to stay off the radar scopes. But they have broke out of their holding pattern and were moving east. Lee did the math in his head. “Jam the road. Crash those fuckers”
“With pleasure sir.” Came from the captain running the hacking selection of the EW CIC. Their effort to hack into the Chinese computer system so far had been met with failure. Mainly because the EW soldiers were still trying to figure out the basic of Chinese computer networks. They just hadn’t had enough time to break into the system. However they did have the radio signals being used by the Chinese figured out. Using a powerful yet rarely used jamming system they jammed the airwaves. Within minutes of being turned on the US had taken control of the airwaves and the Chinese UAVs started to fall out of the sky.
“Inform all units along the border that a Chinese attack is likely coming in the next few minutes.” Lee said seconds later as he kept watching the main screen in the CIC. The screen was showing that all seven UAVs were dropping. Then Lee’s focus shifted to the artillery that was firing. “Hack bring down the whole radio network that the Chinese are using!”
“Working on it sir.” Came the call from Hack.
“Get on the horn with the 191st and warn them they got incoming.”
[1] Think UH-60 Blackhawk
[2] In the aftermath of the 2010 Earthquake the Haitian People overthrew the American background. The US when in and restored the government of their choosing but the Haitians generally fought back for a few days before they gave up. They gave up because they didn’t want massive American crackdown in Haiti.
POD: The French win the Battle of Pueblo in Mexico in 1862 and by early 1864 are able to set up a puppet kingdom in Mexico.
American Civil War 1861-64
The US has a shorter civil war due Kearny not being killed and taking over for McClellan and leads the AofP for the rest of the war. The war is still fairly violent but there isn’t as much as back and for that there was in OTL. Lee and his army surrenders in March 64. Davis dies on the run to Cuba in an effort to escape Union Forces. Forrest also dies on the battlefield in one of the last battles of the war. By Late April 64 all CSA field forces have surrendered and the civil war is over.
Alaskan Buy 1867
Per OTL
Territorial Changes: Alaska becomes an American Territory.
Annexation of the Santo Domingo 1869
The President Kearny ITL is able to get enough votes to get for the annexation treaty through the Senate and it is ratified.
Territorial Changes: Santo Domingo becomes an American Territory.
Franco-Prussian War 1870-71
Largely OTL. Only the peace treaty is radically different than OTL. The French pay a much larger Indemnity than OTL. The borders of Alsace-Lorraine are also slightly different.
Territorial Change: Alsace-Lorraine becomes an Imperial Territory of the newly formed German Empire. Alsace-Lorraine ITL also includes Briey-Longwy in it.
Spanish American War 1873-74
The US and Spanish come to blows in 1873 after a crisis where Americans die in Cuba, close to what almost caused the war in OTL around this time in OTL. It takes some time for the US to get the upper hand against the Spanish as it left the army and navy go to shit since 1864. But after 16 months of fighting the US is able to force the Spanish to the table and agree to their terms.
Territorial Changes: Cuba, Puerto Rico, and all the Central Pacific Islands of Spain become American Territories.
Philippines Buy by Germany 1876
In the aftermath of their defeat in the Spanish American War, Spain was left in a bad place. Germany who have those wanting Germany to be a great power and all Great Powers have colonies. This forces Bismarck to buy the Philippines using part of the French Indemnity to pay for it.
Territorial Changes: The Philippines become a German Colony.
Second Mexican-American War 1885-87
Mexico had been under the Maximilian since the French back Mexicans won a major battle in Mexico in 1863 against the republican forces, which forced them to ground by early 1864. Following the French defeat in the Franco Prussian War, it forced Maximilian to stand on his own without French support. This causes him to force things through to make new laws and his base of support slowly starts going away. By 1883 there is open fighting between said Maximilian’s troops and rebels. The US supports the rebels wanting to kick Maximilian out of the New World.
In 1885 the Mexicans loyal to Maximilian into a fire fight with American Cavalry who are supplying weapons to rebel troops. Things are worked in such a way that a war is fought. The US didn’t let the army go totally to shit since 1874 but it takes time for the US to drive on Mexico City. By Late 87 a treaty is signed with the reformed Mexican Republic. The US in return for Debt Relief and Loan Help the US is allowed to annex some of Northwest Mexico as the Mexican Republic is effetely broke.
Territorial Changes: Baja (All of it) and Sonora become American Territories.
First Sino-Japanese War 1894-95
Again this is largely OTL, and Japan cleans the Chinese Clock in this war. The Japanese press for and get a slightly larger indemnity than OTL. But the Triple Intervention still happens ITL, but ITL only the Double Intervention as its only the French and Russians who pressure the Japanese to give up Port Arthur. Germany under the Regent Prince Henry decided it’s not worth the headache nor in their SOI in China.
Territorial Changes: The Pescadores Islands and Formosa become Japanese Colonies. Port Arthur becomes a Russian Territory.
Hawaii Annexation 1898
Per OTL
Territorial Changes: Hawaii Becomes an American Territory.
Treaty Port/Boxer Rebellion 1898-1901.
The US doesn’t go down the part of the Open Door Notes ITL. Instead they decide to get a treaty port, and they got the Kiautschou Bay Concession(Same size as OTL). The Boxer Rebellion happens per OTL and is crushed just as badly. The US gets a larger share of the Boxer Indemnity at about the same level as OTL UK, France gets about what the US had and the Japanese pick up the remaining difference. The US also gain a concession in Tianjin.
Territorial Changes: Kiautschou Bay Concession and the OTL French Concession in Tianjin become American Leased Territories.
ITL Tripartite Convention 1901
The Americans and Germans ITL work out a deal with the British playing middleman over Samoa Island Claims.
Territorial Changes: American Samoa and Samoa become an American Territory. Palau becomes a German Colony.
Panama Canal Treaty 1905
The US is able to get a treaty out of Colombia to get the Panama Canal Built without Panama breaking off from Colombia.
Territorial Changes: The Panama Canal Zone becomes an American Leased Territory.
Russo-Japanese War 1904-05
To the shock of the world the Japanese royally kick the Russian’s ass in this war. This includes the Japanese forcing the surrender of an army at Mukden which accounts for ¼ of the Russian strength at Mukden. At ITL Tsushima the Japanese capture two more cruisers than OTL including the payroll for the Russian Fleet. The Japanese do better at the peace table but still don’t get an indemnity that they wanted.
Territorial Changes: Port Arthur and Sakhalin become Japanese Colonies.
Third Mexican-American War 1907-1910
The Third Mexican Republic that formed in the aftermath of the Second Mexican-American War was never that stable. The president of Mexican Republic is a revolving door of people with none holding office for more than 14 months. In 1904 things finally breakdown into a civil war. In 1907 a Battle of Columbus like raid happens. Unlike OTL President Roosevelt goes full war mode against the Mexicans instead of the Punitive Expedition of OTL. The US still has a small army and it entered a multi-side civil war and it takes time for the US Army to reach Mexico City. Once in Mexico City it takes the better part of five months to find someone to sign a peace treaty. The US just adds another territory to its nation and gets damn good trade deals with the Mexicans.
Territorial Changes: Chihuahua becomes an American Territory.
Second Sino-Japanese War 1916-1918
Japan gets a reason to go to war with China that is largely viewed by the rest of the world as a legit reason for war. China still hasn’t recovered from the first war with Japan or the Boxer Rebellion a few years later and its leadership is shaky at best of times, at worst of times its infighting and outright civil war. The Japanese are also much improved since their showings in the last two major wars its fought. Like Third Mexico, the Japanese are fighting in a multi-side cluster fuck and they have to force a peace treaty at the end of 1918 to get an exit from the war. They get a very large indemnity from the Chinese on top of the territory they annex.
Territorial Changes: Manchuria, Hainan, and Amoy all become Japanese Colonies.
Anti-Foreign Rebellion in China 1920-23
Following it defeats in 1918 at the hands of the Japanese the Chinese go foaming in the mouth crazy and with a heavy anti-foreign mind set. After a number of skirmishes between Chinese and all of the Foreign Treaty ports and a number of dead foreign nationals the Eight-Power Alliance reforms and goes into China. Only this time the Chinese really make the Eight-Power Alliance work for it. Airplanes also see the first wide spread use in warfare, through that honor of first use when to the Italo-Turk War and the three different Balkan Wars fought between 1910-1916. But the scale in China in 20-23 is far larger than others. It’s a bloody affair but in 23 the Chinese finally see that they are well and truly fucked and sign a peace treaty with the Eight-Power Alliance. The Chinese doesn’t lose anymore territory but all of the lease ports and concession in Tianjin become in perpetuity control instead of the 99 year leases that had been signed in 1898. They also pay a very large indemnity of 1 billion taels of fine silver to the eight power alliance. The US gets about a 17.5% stake in this indemnity. Unlike OTL the US doesn’t remitted either this indemnity or the Boxer indemnity ITL and all that money goes to the US.
Territorial Changes: Kiautschou Bay Concession and the OTL French Concession in Tianjin become full American Territories.
Greenland Buy 1926
The US wants Greenland more than what would be the OTL USVI so they buy it from the Danish and the use their Chinese Indemnities to buy it.
Territorial Change: The Greenland becomes an American Territory.
The Pacific War 1941-44
WWI as we know it never happened. However, war in Europe comes in 1938 and last till 1944. Thanks to the efforts of Wilhelm III and Germany in general they are able force the French to watch from the sidelines as Germany, Austria-Hungary, the British Empire, and others jump on Russia in a fairly massive war that reshapes Europe. The Europeans really don’t piss the US off enough to join the war. Besides the US sells to both sides via third parties or directly and make a killing. But the US starts to build up its military because of this war. Japan thinks about joining this war against Russia but they are in their own bullshit war in China that started in 1935 and can’t afford to commit the resources or deals needed to make joining this war worth their time. At the same time the US is pissing the Japanese off in their war in China as the US is selling the Chinese as they are the only one with the slack abilities at this time.
The Japanese attack the American enclaves in China and their Pacifica Territory after peace efforts fail with the US playing middle man. This brings the US down on the Japanese hard and even worse than the OTL Pacific War as the US isn’t fighting in Europe as well as the same time. The ITL Pacific War is just as bloody as OTL and it ends when the US invades Kyushu in 1944 after performing an ITL Operation Olympic. The US and their Chinese allies don’t agree on the division of the spoils of war but the Chinese know better than the piss the US off again at this point of the game as they don’t have anything left in the tank. They don’t officially recognize the territory the US annexes at the end of the war save for some stuff they didn’t care about at any point, but the US doesn’t care.
Territory Changes: Manchuria (Minus Port Arthur) become part of China proper. Hainan, Amoy, Japanese Concession in Tianjin, Port Arthur, Sakhalin, Kuril Islands, Pescadores Islands, Formosa, Okinawa, and Iwo Jima, become American Territories. Korea is set up as an American Puppet. Japan also becomes an American puppet. Japan also gives up all indemnities China owes her.
US States in 2016 that were not states OTL
51) Santo Domingo, 52) Cuba 53) Puerto Rico, 54) Pacifica (Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands), 55) Baja (The whole Peninsula), 56) Sonora, 57) Chihuahua, 58) Hainan, 59) Sakhalin (Sakhalin and Kuril Islands), 60) Formosa (Formosa and Pescadores Islands)
Organized Territories in the US in 2016 that weren’t part of the US OTL
-On the Path to Statehood in 2016
Roosevelt Territory (OTL Kiautschou Bay Concession), Samoa Territory (American Samoa and Samoa), Amoy Territory, and Port Arthur Territory are all working on statehood in 2016. There is ongoing debate about if the American Concession in Tianjin(OTL French and Japanese Concessions in Tianjin) can join Port Arthur or the Roosevelt Territory once they become a state. But the citizens in the American Concession support the idea of statehood.
-Not currently working to statehood
Panama Canal Zone(Lease in perpetuity from Colombia), Greenland
Excerpts from the MI6 World Factbook, 2016 Edition
United States
Ethnic Groups
White: 85.14%, Black 9.32%, Asian 4.76%, Native or Pacific Islander 0.78%
Population
363,310,314, per 2010 US Census, Projected 375,493,318 in 2016
Migration
Hard cap of 750,000 per year set by the Immigration Act of 1955
Notes: US service members who are married overseas are not counted under the Immigration Act of 1955. Migration from the Republics of Japan and Korea also fall under different rules than the hard cap set by the Immigration Act of 1955. With these rules its projected that in a year over 1 million people migrate to the United States annually.
Life Expectancy
Total Population: 82.3 years
Male: 79.9 years
Female: 84.5 years
International Relations
Full Alliance Treaties with the Republic of Korea and the Republic of Japan.
Monroe Doctrine is viewed by the United States as in effect for Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. In the past few years this viewed has been challenged by South American nations.
Outside these areas the United States has little to do with the International Diplomatic that is currently controlled by either the British or German Empire. The fact notwithstanding the US has the ability to do so it just chooses not to.
Relations with the Republic of China are poor and the ROC has territorial claims on Two US States and Four American Territories. Cross border fire fights are common but seldom last more than a few minutes.
Gross National Product
Total: 27.6 trillion Dollars (2nd)
Per Capita: 65,340 Dollars (4th)
Budget
Revenues: 4.9 Trillion Dollars
Expenditures: 4.1 Trillion Dollars
Taxes
Ranges from 10 to 65% per Income
Public Debt
28.4% of GDP and going down
Military Branches
United States Army, United States Navy, United States Air Force, United States Marine Corp, US Coast Guard(Note 1), Civilian Conservation Corp(Note 2)
Note 1 in Peace Time the US Coast Guard operates under the Department of Treasury. In times of war it falls under the control of the Department of Defense and War.
Note 2 in Peace Time the Civilian Conservation Corp operates under the Department of the Interior. In times of war time it falls under the control of the Department of Defense and War.
Military Expenditures
3.9% of GDP per year average for the past five years.
Conscription
Currently there are no Conscription Calls within the United States. However, both males and females have to register with the Selective Service System in the event of conscription returning to the United States. Current age for this is 17 through 24 if conscription calls were to return to the United States.
Note this not count the Conscription into the Civilian Conservation Corp. This falls under different rules than the other military branches. Failure to finished secondary level of education causes youths in America to be conscripted into the CCC for a period of 24 months once they turn 17 and if they are already out of the education system or when they failed out of secondary school after they turn 17.
Air Force Two
Somewhere over the Atlantic
August 3 2016
Vice President Joe Biden was currently reviewing his notes for his planned meeting with President Erdogan. With the ongoing issues in Turkey since the fail coup effort, well Turkey had been a handful since the coup and he wanted to make sure he had it right. It was the reason he had taken over this trip of Secretary of State John Kerry. Turkey had long been an ally of the United States, but under Erdogan it had burn many bridges and Joe wanted to see if he could mend a few fences.
As he was reviewing his notes for this meeting an Air Force Captain came into the room being used by Biden, “Sir you need to come to comm center now.”
That caused Joe to look up from his notes and he noticed that this captain was white as a ghost. That was never a good sign. That caused Joe to drop his notes and started to run to the communication center of Air Force Two. As Biden ran he noticed that more than a few officers he passed were also white as a ghost. His mind started to think of the worse case. The US was under a nuclear attack.
Being the C-32 had an advance commutation center that allowed who ever was using one to speak to whoever they needed to make their choices wisely. The Marine Colonel who was assigned to Biden’s military staff spoke, “Sir at 0831 Eastern Standard we lost contact with the United States as a whole. At first we believed this to be a technical fault, but we were wrong sir. Show him sergeant.”
Before Vice President Biden could asked a question, an air force NCO flipped a switch and it started playing real time TV feed from the American-Canadian Border. The local news reporter was from CBLT-DT and it was clear he was in a state of shock. But he had the wear about him to do his job. “For those of you that are just joining us about 25 minutes ago a green wall of light came crashing down on the Americans side of the border. Since that time everything on the other side of the border has been a total blank. No radio, telephone, nothing has made it through this wall of light. The few efforts to break through the wall of light had been deadly.”
Indeed, in the background was the wreck of a semi that must have been crossing the border at the time. The back of the trailer was clean cut as if done by a laser. Unseen was the corpse of one of the Canadian border guards who had tried to see what was on the other side of the wall of light. When he touched the wall he was thrown back as if he had been struck by a car. When his coworkers reached him he was already dead. Biden was studying the video feed that was coming in as the reporter was saying he was being order to fall back by the Royal Mounted Police. “Sergeant kill the feed.” The colonel order.
“What do we know Colonel?”
“The information we have at the moment is confusing. The United States is totally dark with this green wall of light around most of it.”
“What do you mean most of it?”
“Sergeant pull up the map.” The sergeant pressed a few buttons. A map of the world came up and the area of this light had hit and was effecting was show in a green tint. All 50 states of the US were covered in this tint. But so was Japan, both Koreas, and parts of Mexico.
Biden study the map, “Has any of this been confirmed yet?”
“Its not confirmed yet sir. We are still trying to get information but we have received news reports of this wall of light following the Mexican state borders of Chihuahua and Sonora before going into the Gulf of California. We believe that this light is covering all of the Baja Peninsula, but have yet to confirm that. Efforts to raise forces in both Japan and South Korea has ended in failure.”
Before the Colonel could go on one of the other sergeants in the communication center handed him a telefax report. The Colonel read it than handed to the sergeant who was running the station they were standing behind. “Add parts of China to this sir. What are your orders?”
“Get me in touch with Xi ASAP. Then give me a link to NATO.”
Air Force One
Williams Air Force Base [1]
August 3 2016
The VC-192[2] rolled down the taxi ways far faster than the normally enforced speed limit set by the USAF. Then again when a plane was performing a combat take off, many rules that normally governed air operations when out the window. Even more so when the aircraft in question was carrying the President of the United States. Reports of a green light wall at the border of the Contiguous United States quickly worked their way up the chain of command. With this being an unknown event and tensions rising with the British over Brazil it was decided to treat this unknown event as a nuclear or kinetic weapon first strike. That meant getting the president airborne.
Inside the VC-192 was President Sharleen Jefferson. Just by looking at her one could see she was terrified of flying. She was gripping the arm rest in the chair as she had her eyes shut and focusing on her breathing. One of her Secret Service agents who was assigned to her detail was coaching her through her fears. She normally took Army One[3] when she was travelling in Contiguous United States. However, she was due to meet with the Japanese and Korean prime ministers in Tokyo tomorrow for a summit on the Chinese issues they were facing at the moment. As such she took Air Force One to Williams AFB to go on the stump for her vice president for the 2016 election. She was following the unwritten two term rule written by the father of the nation George Washington and not running for a third term. However, she was doing everything in her power to make sure her VP one in November and with New Mexico being a bellwether state she decided to stump here before going on to Tokyo.
Once the VC-192 was on the runway the pilots pushed the throttle to the firewall to take the Pratt and Houston engine to their max power settings. Air Force One quickly started picking up speed as it when down the runway. Using far less than what was the normal amount of runway for the four engine jet the pilots pulled the joysticks back to lift the massive aircraft into the air. Its angle of attack was far steeper than normal for a take off as gaining altitude was key at the moment. In far less time than normal 32,000 feet was reached. Once at the high it leveled off.
As Air Force One returned to level flight Sharleen’s breathing started returning to normal. Well close to normal. She was still scared shitless even through she was flying in an aircraft that some of the highest maintain standards in the world. Once her breathing was under control again she let go of the death grip she had on the armrest. She then open her eyes as she had enough of her wits together now. She stood up and spoke, “Mike what can you tell me what is going on? And why the fuck I had to be put through that?”
Mike was Captain Mike Tanaka of the United States Navy. He was the military chief of staff assigned to her detail and handle many questions she had about military matters. “Madam President, as you were informed on your way to Williams AFB, there is a green light around the Contiguous 51. We simply don’t know what is going on.” He said as he walked beside her on the way do the communication deck of the aircraft.
“Are we in touch with the Island states or our territories?” She asked.
“No, we are not Madam President. No electronic signals are getting through this wall.”
“What about our space base assets?”
“At best its touch and go. If they are over the Contiguous 51 we are in touch with them. But once they pass over the border we lose touch with them.”
“Are we sure this isn’t a British first strike?” The Americans and British were currently at an impasse over Brazil. The British wanted to expand its control into the Americas outside of Canada, the Caribbean, and British Honduras. The US wanted to keep the Americas a United States playground. The British through had friends in Rio de Janeiro who wanted to get out from under the thumb of the US.
“Honestly, we don’t have the first idea what is happening.” At that point the president and her naval aid reach the communication deck of Air Force One. “Sergeant pull it up.”
The sergeant who was manning the station flipped a switch and punched a few commands into his computer and brought up what the captain wanted to so the president. It was the space base assets of the United States that had been in orbit at this morning. The ones that had passed over the US were in bold and the ones that happened been in touch with the 25th Air Force were in a light tent. She when through the list fairly quickly. “Damn it. Put SAC on DEFCON Two. The rest of our forces put on DEFCON Three. Mobilize thee air force and naval aviation reserves and guard units.”
[1] Roughly where Holloman AFB is OTL
[2] Think a Boeing 747-8 with VC-25 mods
[3] Think a TGV 2N2 with mods for transporting the president.
Near Xiamen
Forward Edge of Contact
August 3 2016
Members of the First Amphibious Mechanized Infantry Division of the PLA had been mobilized to form a defensive line around Xiamen. This was one of four areas on the mainland where an odd green light had formed. Both Hainan and Formosa had been placed under the same odd green light. With the unknown being one of the greatest fears of the senior Chinese Leadership they had ordered the military to set up lines around these areas about 90 minutes after the event started. This was after Vice President Biden had personally spoken General Secretary Xi Jinping and Biden told Xi that this wasn’t the doing of the United States.
Once Xi understood that the US was being hit even harder than China had been and that this light seem to followed defend borders he decided to move units to be ready for whatever happened. The PLA was moving units to the three towns that were affected by this and moving the PLAN to Hainan. The PLA was also moving units to the frontier with North Korea. The world was on edge since this had started, almost six hours ago. By this time most media outlets and intelligence agencies had figured out where the effective areas were. Then right at the six hour mark of this odd green light showing up it when away.
Lieutenant Colonel Sum Yaochuan was on the radio with regimental when the light came down. He dropped the radio at what he saw. There was a huge sign that had what he believed to be English writing on top. Below that was in both Chinese and English and it read, “You are about to enter the Amoy Territory, United States of America. Prepare to stop and be searched. Failure to follow orders places you at the risk of bodily harm or death.” On looking closer at the sign there were clear sign of bullet holes in the sign.
Sum picked the radio back up and reported what he saw. He also noticed that the roads didn’t match up on either side of where the green light had been. He then noticed a number of soldiers on the other side. They were wearing a uniform unlike anything he had seen before.
Amoy Territory
Forward Edge of Battle
Because of all the fire fights with the Republic of China, the areas within two miles of the border had been declared a forward edge of battle zone back in 1965. The Republic of China on a regular basis had demanded the return of the Amoy Territory and other territories held by the United States on the Chinese mainland, but the US answer was always the same; No. To the United States these territories were as American as New York City or Atlanta. The Amoy Territory was the favorite to be the first American state in Asia itself, and this was mostly because it served as the gateway to Chinese trade via Formosa which had been the first state admitted to the Union from territories annexed at the end of the Pacific War in 1993.
Lt Colonel Mike Garrity was at his command post for the 1st Battalion of the 191st Military Police Regiment. Once the green light dropped after it’s six hour stay he noticed one thing right away. They weren’t in Oklahoma anymore. Picking up his radio, “Justice Base this is Tonto One.”
After a second, “Tonto One this is Justice Base go ahead.”
“Justice Base, the other side of the border is radically different.”
“Please explain Tonto One.”
“Justice Base, unless the Chinks[1] have pulled off the mother of all miracles in those six hours we aren’t in Oklahoma anymore.”
“Stand by Tonto One. Standard ROE is still in effect.”
Mike put down his radio and picked up his M-39 submachine gun[2] and checked it. Everyone who was assigned to the forward edge of battle areas of the American Chinese border always carried at least two weapons if not more. As an officer mike carried the M-39 which was a sweet little number. He also carried a Colt M1909 Special[3]. As an officer Mike had the choice to buy his own personal sidearm, which coming from money he decided to use that right and brought a Colt M1909 Special in flat black. He like the extra round that the M1909 Special had over the M32 pistol[4] that was issued but that came at the cost of extra weight. Mike didn’t mind that through as it wasn’t much but having that extra round ready for use could and had made the difference more than once.
American Chinese relations were poor and had been for decades and showed no sign of getting better. Then again, the Chinese had poor relations with just about everyone. They regularly demanded back the German, British, Dutch, French, and American ports up and down the Chinese coast along with all the Concessions in Tianjin be return to them. They further demand from the US that return Formosa and Hainan. That was likely to happen as hell freezing over or Lucifer praying to God for help. Some things just don’t happen. But the Chinese hated everyone and blame them for the hell that the Chinese had gone through since 1894. But everyone else viewed it as their own fault and they needed to man up put on their big boy pants and grow up. Then again that was as likely as the French getting over their inferiority complex.
For China had been through three different civil wars and warlord periods. Currently the strongman in Peking had won the last civil war that was fought in China over 20 years ago. But he was old and there was no clear person with the strength needed to hold China together and keep her from falling into a fourth warlord/civil war period. Generally, most Americans felt sorry for the Chinese and their piss poor leadership. But instead of the shacks and shanty towns that had long been a common sight along the American-Chinese border there were factories and well built town on the border. This was a major change of pace to what the border guards and military units who garrisoned the forward edge of battle area were used to.
Mike then noticed two Chinese in uniforms he had never seen before coming forward under a flag of truce. Mike picked up the radio, “Justice Base, Tonto One.”
“Tonto One this is Justice Base go ahead.”
“Justice base I have two Chinese coming forward under a flag of truce.”
After a few seconds, “Tonto One, standard Parley ROE.”
“WILCO, Justice Base. Tonto One out.”
At that Mike put down his radio again. “Sergeant Jackson, you’re with me. Lets go see what they want.”
“Yes sir.” Sergeant Lisa Jackson answered.
[1] The use of racial slurs ITL outside of Chinese is generally frown on and rarely happen. But given the history of American Chinese relations, and indeed Chinese relations with the whole world, no one really cares about what they get called.
[2] Think KRISS Vector in .45ACP with a 30 round stick magazine.
[3] Think Para Ordnance P-14s.
[4] Think Glock 21.
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Lt Colonel Mike Garrity walked out from his command post and started walking to the area that they used for parley meetings with the Chinese. It was a trip he seemed to make about every few weeks. It generally happened in the aftermath of a cross-border firefight with his unit. The Chinese either wanted to get any of their wounded back who were stuck in the no-man’s land between the border and the shanty town that was on the other side of the border or they were there to demand Amoy back. However, this time was different and Mike knew it.
For Lt Colonel Sum Yaochuan this was something he wasn’t trained for. His division had been reformed to allow the PLA gain experience in amphibious warfare. The division was to help defend the Chinese historical rights in the South China Sea from all comers as well as having a mean to lash out at the Republican inbreeds on Formosa when the time came for that. However, for Sum, no officer in his division had been trained for a defensive meeting engagement and one where the party was an unknown.
Once the Chinese officer was close enough Mike called out in Chinese, “That’s close enough.” Mike had learn how to speak Chinese because most Chinese simply refused to learn how to speak anything else.
This caused Sum to be taken back. Who was this American to be given him orders on Chinese soil? As he looked around he noticed a border marker about a meter or two from where he stood. “What are you doing on Chinese territory Yankee?!” Sum asked.
“What are you talking about? Amoy had been an American territory since 1944.”
“You mean Xiamen?” Sum asked.
“Never heard of Xiamen.” Mike answered and was unaware of a number of points at the moment. Before giving the ball back the Chinese officer he spoke again. “Who am I’m speaking to?”
“Lt Colonel Yaochuan, First Amphibious Mechanized Infantry Division of the PLA. Who are you Yankee?”
“Lt Colonel Garrity, 191st Military Police Regiment US Army. What is the PLA I never heard of it before?”
‘What?’ Sum thought. “I don’t care. I demand you leave Chinese territory before we force you do leave it.”
“Listen buster, I don’t give a jack either but we aren’t leaving. Any efforts to take Amoy with force will be met with force. But something strange has just happened, and let’s wait a moment before we start trying to kill each other.”
“No! You will leave now!” Sum thinking of his career. Letting the Americans to keep a foothold in China would destroy it and he would get station in remote ass Tibet because of that. That’s the last thing he wanted.
Mike didn’t even answer that. He slowly started walking backwards knowing his battalion snipers were covering him. But he wasn’t about to give the Chinese his back. Even with kevlar on, there was a chance it could hit in areas that weren’t covered. He didn’t want a fourth Purple Heart.
Sum just watched as the Americans walked backward. He knew nothing else was going to happen here. So, he started to walk back to his command post to start planning an attack on the Yankees. As he walked back he was unaware four different snipers had him in their sights and waiting for the word to drop the fool.
Air Force Two
Near the United Kingdom Air Space
August 3 2016
If one looked outside the windows of the C-32 that was transporting Vice President Joe Biden one could see a pair of RAF Typhoon fighter jets escorting the aircraft. This was because of the state of for lack of better words of panic that was setting in the remaining United States military command along with the same sense of panic within NATO. The only land area that was territorial part of this world’s United States that hadn’t wasn’t touched by this odd green light was the US Virgin Islands. This green light had covered every other piece of territorial legally own by the United States. But this green light also covered two nations in the Caribbean, four Mexican States, the area around the Panama Canal but it was larger than the Canal Zone, Greenland, a whole mess of Pacific Islands that include islands own by Japan, Japan itself, both Koreas, a Russian oblast, and chunks of land own by the People’s Republic of China. Everything was in chaos at the moment as everyone was trying to get a grip on things.
One of the sergeants in the communication section of the C-32 spoke up, “Mister Vice President, Secretary Xi Jinping is wanting to speak with you. He seems to be an enraged state and I don’t think he wants to wait.”
“Theresa I will need to get back to you.”
“Go ahead Joe. I will speak with you when you touched down.” With everything going on it was decided that the C-32 would go to the United Kingdom instead of Turkey. Joe had already spoken to the leaders of the UK, France, Germany, Canada, China, and Russia to try and keep this from starting a war by mistake, and it seemed the Chinese wanted to talk again.
The call with Prime Minister Theresa May was shut down at that. The sergeant running the communication section flipped a few switches and a video feed came in from Beijing. Xi Jinping spoke than his translator spoke. “Mister Biden General Secretary Xi wishes to know why the United States has invaded the People’s Republic of China.”
Joe Biden was shocked by this. He knew the Chinese had been trying to undermined the power of the US over the past decade and that caused the lack of title. But the US military brass had long view a land war with the Chinese as something as unwinnable and wouldn’t even be tried. The plan as it stood called of aerial strikes and blockade of the Chinese coast if the two nations came to blows and assuming it didn’t go nuclear. After a moment pause Joe spoke, “Mister Xi, the US has not invaded the Chinese nation nor would we.”
After the translators did their job, Xi said, “You are lying. There are four areas on the mainland that are now under American control along with Hainan and Formosa. The Republic of Korea is now up to the border with us. Why has the United States performed this war of aggression?”
“Mister Xi I’m not lying. I have no reason to lie. A strange event had just finished. Think about it. My America has not invaded your nation. We are working on the idea that an alternate version of the United States in some way we can understand has been transported here.”
“That may make some sense.” Xi admitted after thinking about it for a second or two. “But what about the Republic of Korea being on our border in Northern China.”
“For that I don’t know or have an answer for unless it came from the same event that caused this alternate US to transported here.”
Before Biden could go on one of the Sergeants spoke, “Sir I have a President Sharleen Jefferson wanting to speak to you. She is claiming that she is the President of the United States.” The United States, well in the land that called itself the United States had worked with the Canadians to get in touch with the US of this world to see if they could figure out what was going on. They had been able to speak to their allies in Seoul and Tokyo. But the rest of the world was not connected to the US anymore. Only quick work between the other Americans and the Canadians had caused President Jefferson to be able to get a link to the C-32 carrying Vice President Biden.
“Stall her. I need to get this under control.” Biden turned back to the Chinese leader, “Mister Secretary, we have both seen something that normal science as I understand can’t possibly answer. Let’s agree to start a cool down period to keep this from becoming a war over something we can’t possible explain.”
After a moment or two Xi spoke again, “How long of a cool down period?”
“36 hours so be just fine.” Biden answered.
“Very well then. So long as these Americans do not attack, we will not either.”
At that video feed from China was cut. Biden rubbed his neck as this had not been a good day. But if he could keep WWIII from happening it would be worth it. After taking a moment to calm himself he spoke, “Ok put me through the person claiming to be the president of this other United States.” Biden said. After a second, “God those are orders I never thought I would give.”
It took a moment, but the picture of President Jefferson was coming in 5/5 in the C-32 that Vice President Biden was in. She spoke first, “Mister Vice President, you care to tell me how your US ended up in a mess of alliance system with the Europeans?” The US that had just shown up was quickly trying to learn about the world it had landed in. It was further trying to learn if all its naval and merchant marine that had been out at sea had been brought to this strange new world as well. What it was learning about the US of this world was deeply worrying to everyone who was feeding themselves this raw intelligence. Some of this raw intelligence had already been handed to President Jefferson and her team.
It was clear she was calling from the Oval Office or a damn good Hollywood set as Biden study the video feed. But that wasn’t a question he could possibly answer. “Madam President, what could you mean by such a statement?” How could any US not become in world affairs and that meant dealing with the Europeans? Biden pondered that question and nothing came to his mind. The look on President Jefferson’s face said everything through.
Near, Amoy Territory
PLA Artillery Park
August 3 2016
Even through General Secretary Xi Jinping had just promised Vice President and de facto President Joe Biden that his military wouldn’t attack these new Americans, the PLA communication network was overloaded and overworked. It was having issues keeping up with the flash traffic that was going to and coming from Beijing. This was because it had never been stress tested before. Now the faults in the system were being found out. But it was the worst possible time to learn about these issues. As such the orders to keep from attacking these new Americans never reached the First Amphibious Mechanized Infantry Division in time.
For the signal intelligence units attached to the First Amphibious Mechanized Division they were picking up signals coming from the American control areas around Xiamen that they couldn’t figure out. This alone was scaring the signal intelligence people. Then again, they weren’t use to going up against counter battery and mapping LIDAR either. It was one of the side effects of having three great powers in the world that the US had come from. All three were able to perform advance research and development independently of each other. It wasn’t like the cold war of this world where the Soviet Union was only kept in the game because of a great ground game by its spy agencies. No in the world this new US came from the three Great Powers were performing their tangent in terms of technology. One area the US was really pushing hard was the use of LIDAR as a way to counter Chinese artillery strikes. And since finding itself in this new world the US had been running both their mapping and counter battery LIDAR to build up a detail picture of the world they were in and to keep their ass safe from the pissed off Chinese.
It was because of this LIDAR that the US knew of a pair of AVIC 601-S Dark Sword UCAVs and five more Guizhou WX-2000 UAVs that were flying near their border. So far none of the UAVs had made an effort to come into American air space, but that hadn’t stopped the US from working on some old tricks it had learned the hard way. The US has given up on the idea of unmanned combat vehicles for one simple reason. It could be hijacked by able computer hackers. This was a lesson they learned in the 1990s along the border of Mexico after a few of their early efforts at UAVs were hijacked in such a manner. It was widely believed that it was a British effort that led the effort to highjack these UAVs. It was these events that caused the US to give up on using UAVs for military uses. But, they had returned the favor to the Chinese more than once since then who were building their own shitty UAVs and buying French ones which were fairly good designs, even if they were the monkey models for export.
Then time came for the attack. The pair of Dark Sword UCAVs which the Chinese believed which had a low enough radar cross section turned from their orbits about 30 clicks away from American Amoy. Two Batteries of PLZ-89s which were 13 kilometers away from new border was brought too ready by their commanders. Both the UCAVs and SPGs were being fed targeting information via the five WX-2000 UAVs which was orbiting the areas outside the new border area. This information from these UAVs were also being fed to a squadron of armed Changhe Z-11s who were just taking off to take in the second wave of the attack. The idea was the UCAVs would take out the anti-air defenses in the American lines. Once the air-defenses were down the Z-11s would come in and blast strong points with their Hongjian-8 Anti-tank missiles.
In support was the PLAAF. One of the rare KJ-2000 airborne early warning and control aircraft was flying about 100 kilometers from the new border was pounding the airwaves with its radar. It was being escorted by a pair of Chengdu J-10 fighters. Currently the KJ-2000’s radar was only picking up a hand full of aircraft in the air over the American held Chinese territory. It also had on call three fighter divisions to sweep the skies if it was needed. But the targets currently over the American held territory by their flight patterns and speed subjected that they were ELINT aircraft of an unknown type. However the KJ-2000 was failing to pick up the four American F-201 Hawk Fighters[1] that were flying CAP over the Amoy Territory.
For the Chinese they believed they were about to perform a well-planned attack that had the element of surprise. It was a well-planned attack if only they had the element of surprise. They had failed to understand or try to figure out if there was any differences between these new Americans and the ones they were used to dealing with. They were about to find out that these new Americans were a different breed.
[1] Think F-22 Raptors but more advance
Amoy City
US Army Electronic Warfare CIC
August 3 2016
Major Lee “Burner” Bamber was standing behind the bank of computer screens and techs in the CIC of the US Army’s EW hub in Amoy. Currently the former flier was the officer in charge of the CIC and he was watching the real-time feed of information coming into the CIC. Lee had been grounded after his UH-51[1] was shot down during Operation High Wire[2] back in 2010 to stabilize Haiti. In one hand was his cane which he needed to walk with nowadays. In the other was an old family lighter that had been passed down from his great grandfather to him over four generations. He was snapping it open and closing it again to keep his hands busy at the moment.
With his eye were trained on the main screen in the CIC he was watching the real-time LIDAR read outs of the area around the Amoy Territory. He was keeping his eyes on the pair of “stealth” UAVs. He like the rest of the US military were noticing the heavy use of UAVs in this world which was something they had given up for military use a long time ago. They had decided it was best to always have a human in the loop so it couldn’t have the keys to your military taken from you. That’s not saying they didn’t have uses for them, but they just weren’t for military use. Burner and the rest had figured out those two “stealth” UAVs were more than likely good against old radar, but again their LIDAR they were fucked. They briefly wondered if this world was that far behind their own.
As the seconds were ticking by Lee noticed a change in the flight plan of the two “stealth” UAVs. “Bring it in on those targets Fox and George.” Burner called out. Those were the two “stealth” UAVs that were trying to stay off the radar scopes. But they have broke out of their holding pattern and were moving east. Lee did the math in his head. “Jam the road. Crash those fuckers”
“With pleasure sir.” Came from the captain running the hacking selection of the EW CIC. Their effort to hack into the Chinese computer system so far had been met with failure. Mainly because the EW soldiers were still trying to figure out the basic of Chinese computer networks. They just hadn’t had enough time to break into the system. However they did have the radio signals being used by the Chinese figured out. Using a powerful yet rarely used jamming system they jammed the airwaves. Within minutes of being turned on the US had taken control of the airwaves and the Chinese UAVs started to fall out of the sky.
“Inform all units along the border that a Chinese attack is likely coming in the next few minutes.” Lee said seconds later as he kept watching the main screen in the CIC. The screen was showing that all seven UAVs were dropping. Then Lee’s focus shifted to the artillery that was firing. “Hack bring down the whole radio network that the Chinese are using!”
“Working on it sir.” Came the call from Hack.
“Get on the horn with the 191st and warn them they got incoming.”
[1] Think UH-60 Blackhawk
[2] In the aftermath of the 2010 Earthquake the Haitian People overthrew the American background. The US when in and restored the government of their choosing but the Haitians generally fought back for a few days before they gave up. They gave up because they didn’t want massive American crackdown in Haiti.