Washington's military computer networks were so badly compromised by jamming, spoofing, and decades of viral sabotage, that the beginning of the war reminded me of the opening episode of some Science fiction movie, where the puny Earthlings cannot see the Aliens and are defenseless against the super weapons they bring for their conquest.
With the destruction America's satellites, its warships and aviation assets blinded by electronic noise and no GPS, not to mention all the malware previously laying dormant in its communications networks; the USA was seriously lacking any defensive ability to respond short of a nuclear retaliation.
Everyone knew, once the nukes started to fly, the history of mankind would end that month if not that very day. Russian and the Chinese planners with their deep underground bunkers let it be known they had been preparing for this day since WW2 and a good 45 to 60% of their people would survive the nuclear exchange-- while the USA was guaranteed at least a 90% causality rate during the first few moments of the missiles raining down upon the cities and the land..
There were still those in the American military who wanted to launch but cooler heads realized that would be a lost cause for the entire world.
A whole flight of F-35s pilots scrambled to defend Hawaii, however, all the jet's computer systems went haywire from the Chinese and Russian electronic attacks. Their airborne radars detected phantom targets that didn't exist, and some of the GPS Lat Long position readouts put the flight over Denver instead of Maui. They had taken off to bravely defend, but returned without even firing a missile or a shot.
The automated tasks for all the services could not be trusted or they just failed out right and completely. It really was a case of the blind trying to lead the blind for there could not be any type of information overload or some type of "digital fog" for all the digital information was dead and flat screened black or flickering green bogus info. This was in the truest sense, a real fog of war that USA/NATO could not penetrate ! All caused by not knowing where your enemy was much less where you were if you were a ship at sea or an aircraft that used GPS navigation.
America's pilots and all of NATO had to learn to fly without GPS so they had to revert to civilian VOR/ADF navigation. Their smart bombs, became drop and pray bombs, just like WW2 if they were lucky to even get airborne much less find a target.. Laser guided munitions still worked but you had to find targets to illuminate.
Skills that the military had let lapse over the years were now in high demand. Ships, if they made it to sea, once again had to practice celestial navigation unless they were equipped with inertial navigation systems, which luckily, most large fighting ships were. However for aircraft, Inertial navigation units were expensive when compared to GPS units, (even after the usual military procurement and over pricing of the military GPS units).
Old sea dogs who could still work a sextant and do celestial navigation were called to active duty; some as old as 75 if they could still see and move about once on the ship. They were assigned to the smaller coastal picket ships putting out to sea when all the GPS navigation systems went down... Our Trident Nuclear power submarines (Boomers) we useless unless you wanted to light off a nuclear war and seal all of mankind’s fate..
Desperate times required everyone to do what they could.
To further complicate the situation, the U.S.A. found itself fighting World War III without a major manufacturing base.
Unfortunately, business people did not have idle factories they could quickly get up and running for a war effort of this magnitude. Another major problem to consider was there were not enough trained people to man what few factories that tried to gen-up for production, so most of the start-ups floundered or were blown up before they could make much of a difference for the allied war effort..
Due to tax advantages and cheap labor almost all of the once great American factories had been moved overseas or shut down as their parts were sold off to China and others willing to buy America's manufacturing assets and tooling.
The cyberwar coupled with the actual shooting war in the Pacific and Europe looked grim for the USA and its NATO allies no matter how you gauged it. The Philippines formally surrendered one week after Manila was bombed and leveled. Japan fought bravely with its few naval assets but most of their navy was destroyed within the first two weeks of the conflict. Okinawa and the U.S. Base there was totally destroyed the first few hours of China's attack.
Europe was petrified by Russian incursions all over the map. Most of Europe knew with America effectively out of the game and the umbrella of their once powerful military force neutralized they stood no chance against the two remaining super powers.
The Japanese said they would never surrender but the Russian and Chinese cruise missiles (working off their own satellite navigation systems) showed them the error of their thinking by all but leveling Tokyo. Without a government or a Navy the Japanese Airforce was tasked for home defense as the Japanese military took over all government functions; to little to late for the millions that had already been killed.
Countries in Southeast Asia all scrambled to sign mutual defense agreements with the new world powers as did much of the rest of the world. Those who refused were given a very direct and stern demonstration why it was not wise to make mother Russia and or the Chinese Committee mad.
Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) were almost totally destroyed but the Vietnamese continued to infiltrate and battle their Chinese neighbor to the North West. Nothing China could not handle once they put a one million man mechanized army along the border and had them move south destroying everything and anyone they met; much like the Japanese had once done to the Chinese during WW2.
Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia formally asked the New Russian/Chinese Pact how they could help; which was a smart move on their part if they wanted to avoid the bombs and bullets of these two heavy weights..
In the mean time the Chinese/Russian planners of this great power grab had decided against a land, air, sea, assault on the American home land. They could stand off shore and use precision guided munitions to level any city in America so why waste man power when the thinking was, “The different fractions in the states would do the dirty work for them”. They were wrong on that account for the American citizens bonded from all walks of life to fight this new threat any way they could. It was hard (impossible) to fight cruise missiles with your store bought AK-47 or your trusty AR-15 but these weapons did come in handy along the southern borders..
There were odd groups of Central and South American fighters that were armed and sent north across the southern borders of the USA. They were met by agent provocateurs already prepositioned in certain cities of the border states. They were successful at first but as Yamamoto once said, “There are guns behind every blade of grass in America”, which was a slight overstatement, however there was much truth in what he once thought; for Americans of every walk of life generally got armed and refused to just lay down to the invaders or give up without a fight.. The reason I say generally is for there were those who tried to reason with some of the raiders. The poor souls were almost always killed and left as examples hanging from bridges and street lamp post as a warning to others. Some of the captured women wished they had been killed before they had to endure many of the horrors considered, worse than death.
Hastily formed militias and national guard units using their own equipment for the most part, were first to engage and defeat an expeditionary force that crossed the border at Brownsville, Texas. This enemy force, lead by members of the Zetas Cartel wanted to move on Houston to grab refineries; which would have been devastating to America's already impotent war effort.
Unfortunately not all went as well for other parts of the country; California was occupied by the invaders and Washington State, from what little news that got out, was on its last leg while using hit and run guerrilla tactics against a much larger invading force. All our Airbases and military facilities had been targeted. The airbases were mostly unusable and any military aircraft that made it to a civilian airport was destroyed along with the airport in short order. The Russian and Chinese spy satellites (along with their ground based assets and spies) were much better than anyone had ever dared to imagine.
Certainly better than our NATO satellites and listening post, for our assets had been destroyed or rendered useless.
America did not control the skies above it's own landmass and was technically electronically blinded and almost totally mute with all the jamming going on. The few F-22 fighter jets that had been built were being flown as much as they could be with their high technology data strings almost useless.
The F-35 program had been largely scaled back (just as the F-22) due to cost, so what 5th generation fighter aircraft we could launch quickly needed parts and ground time to be worked on and fixed.. The USA's Generation 4 aircraft were no match for the Chinese and Russian generation 5 fighters which seemed to be every place none would expect in Europe, Africa, and Asia.. There was no contact from Alaska and the Canadians swore that was where many of the Russian and Chinese aircraft and cruise missiles were coming from.
Most of the power stations in the states had been either sabotaged or out right shelled by stand-off munitions except for the nuclear power plants. The nuclear plants had all been shut down voluntarily expecting to be bombed at any moment; yet six months into the war they had been physically untouched or bombed.
Then, the first year without a summer hit, and hit hard. People froze to death all over the world especially in the northern and southern hemispheres. In the northern hemisphere during the month of July with no electricity and many without water coupled with an average daily temperature of only 42 degrees Fahrenheit in Kansas people did what they had to do to survive. Some laid blame on the sun while others said it was due to all the volcanic activity. It did not matter what the cause was, people just froze to death especially at night.
In many of the cities without power it became worse than some Mad Max movie, with raiders and scavengers willing to kill anyone or anything that crossed their path just to see if the newly dead had anything the raiders might want. Rumors of Cannibalism and many other despicable acts that only some horror movie script writer could imagine were common place in the hearts of some city sections around the world.
The few enclaves that had some form of social order were becoming few and far between because people were starving and there were no supplies coming. After the first year of the freeze there were very few dogs and cats left to eat. Dog was actually pretty good and even cat and rat stew, if spiced correctly, could get a hungry person through the day. Speaking of which, spices became such a highly sought after commodity that they were worth several times the weight in gold.
The military at first tried to feed and clothe much of the population but there were to many and to few supplies for such an undertaking. When the trucks and trains stopped rolling either due to weather, lack of fuel, or hostile intercepts the food stopped arriving. Even for the military airlift command, resupply without fighter cover and AWACS radar, was a suicide mission; so all were basically grounded even if they had someplace they could land and take-off from. Any station, ship at sea, or airborne aircraft that activated it's radar was only minutes away from getting a hostile missile up it's radome.
General aviation using small single engine aircraft and flying low could get through occasionally, but as the aviation fuel dried up so did these bold endeavors.
With the destruction America's satellites, its warships and aviation assets blinded by electronic noise and no GPS, not to mention all the malware previously laying dormant in its communications networks; the USA was seriously lacking any defensive ability to respond short of a nuclear retaliation.
Everyone knew, once the nukes started to fly, the history of mankind would end that month if not that very day. Russian and the Chinese planners with their deep underground bunkers let it be known they had been preparing for this day since WW2 and a good 45 to 60% of their people would survive the nuclear exchange-- while the USA was guaranteed at least a 90% causality rate during the first few moments of the missiles raining down upon the cities and the land..
There were still those in the American military who wanted to launch but cooler heads realized that would be a lost cause for the entire world.
A whole flight of F-35s pilots scrambled to defend Hawaii, however, all the jet's computer systems went haywire from the Chinese and Russian electronic attacks. Their airborne radars detected phantom targets that didn't exist, and some of the GPS Lat Long position readouts put the flight over Denver instead of Maui. They had taken off to bravely defend, but returned without even firing a missile or a shot.
The automated tasks for all the services could not be trusted or they just failed out right and completely. It really was a case of the blind trying to lead the blind for there could not be any type of information overload or some type of "digital fog" for all the digital information was dead and flat screened black or flickering green bogus info. This was in the truest sense, a real fog of war that USA/NATO could not penetrate ! All caused by not knowing where your enemy was much less where you were if you were a ship at sea or an aircraft that used GPS navigation.
America's pilots and all of NATO had to learn to fly without GPS so they had to revert to civilian VOR/ADF navigation. Their smart bombs, became drop and pray bombs, just like WW2 if they were lucky to even get airborne much less find a target.. Laser guided munitions still worked but you had to find targets to illuminate.
Skills that the military had let lapse over the years were now in high demand. Ships, if they made it to sea, once again had to practice celestial navigation unless they were equipped with inertial navigation systems, which luckily, most large fighting ships were. However for aircraft, Inertial navigation units were expensive when compared to GPS units, (even after the usual military procurement and over pricing of the military GPS units).
Old sea dogs who could still work a sextant and do celestial navigation were called to active duty; some as old as 75 if they could still see and move about once on the ship. They were assigned to the smaller coastal picket ships putting out to sea when all the GPS navigation systems went down... Our Trident Nuclear power submarines (Boomers) we useless unless you wanted to light off a nuclear war and seal all of mankind’s fate..
Desperate times required everyone to do what they could.
To further complicate the situation, the U.S.A. found itself fighting World War III without a major manufacturing base.
Unfortunately, business people did not have idle factories they could quickly get up and running for a war effort of this magnitude. Another major problem to consider was there were not enough trained people to man what few factories that tried to gen-up for production, so most of the start-ups floundered or were blown up before they could make much of a difference for the allied war effort..
Due to tax advantages and cheap labor almost all of the once great American factories had been moved overseas or shut down as their parts were sold off to China and others willing to buy America's manufacturing assets and tooling.
The cyberwar coupled with the actual shooting war in the Pacific and Europe looked grim for the USA and its NATO allies no matter how you gauged it. The Philippines formally surrendered one week after Manila was bombed and leveled. Japan fought bravely with its few naval assets but most of their navy was destroyed within the first two weeks of the conflict. Okinawa and the U.S. Base there was totally destroyed the first few hours of China's attack.
Europe was petrified by Russian incursions all over the map. Most of Europe knew with America effectively out of the game and the umbrella of their once powerful military force neutralized they stood no chance against the two remaining super powers.
The Japanese said they would never surrender but the Russian and Chinese cruise missiles (working off their own satellite navigation systems) showed them the error of their thinking by all but leveling Tokyo. Without a government or a Navy the Japanese Airforce was tasked for home defense as the Japanese military took over all government functions; to little to late for the millions that had already been killed.
Countries in Southeast Asia all scrambled to sign mutual defense agreements with the new world powers as did much of the rest of the world. Those who refused were given a very direct and stern demonstration why it was not wise to make mother Russia and or the Chinese Committee mad.
Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) were almost totally destroyed but the Vietnamese continued to infiltrate and battle their Chinese neighbor to the North West. Nothing China could not handle once they put a one million man mechanized army along the border and had them move south destroying everything and anyone they met; much like the Japanese had once done to the Chinese during WW2.
Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia formally asked the New Russian/Chinese Pact how they could help; which was a smart move on their part if they wanted to avoid the bombs and bullets of these two heavy weights..
In the mean time the Chinese/Russian planners of this great power grab had decided against a land, air, sea, assault on the American home land. They could stand off shore and use precision guided munitions to level any city in America so why waste man power when the thinking was, “The different fractions in the states would do the dirty work for them”. They were wrong on that account for the American citizens bonded from all walks of life to fight this new threat any way they could. It was hard (impossible) to fight cruise missiles with your store bought AK-47 or your trusty AR-15 but these weapons did come in handy along the southern borders..
There were odd groups of Central and South American fighters that were armed and sent north across the southern borders of the USA. They were met by agent provocateurs already prepositioned in certain cities of the border states. They were successful at first but as Yamamoto once said, “There are guns behind every blade of grass in America”, which was a slight overstatement, however there was much truth in what he once thought; for Americans of every walk of life generally got armed and refused to just lay down to the invaders or give up without a fight.. The reason I say generally is for there were those who tried to reason with some of the raiders. The poor souls were almost always killed and left as examples hanging from bridges and street lamp post as a warning to others. Some of the captured women wished they had been killed before they had to endure many of the horrors considered, worse than death.
Hastily formed militias and national guard units using their own equipment for the most part, were first to engage and defeat an expeditionary force that crossed the border at Brownsville, Texas. This enemy force, lead by members of the Zetas Cartel wanted to move on Houston to grab refineries; which would have been devastating to America's already impotent war effort.
Unfortunately not all went as well for other parts of the country; California was occupied by the invaders and Washington State, from what little news that got out, was on its last leg while using hit and run guerrilla tactics against a much larger invading force. All our Airbases and military facilities had been targeted. The airbases were mostly unusable and any military aircraft that made it to a civilian airport was destroyed along with the airport in short order. The Russian and Chinese spy satellites (along with their ground based assets and spies) were much better than anyone had ever dared to imagine.
Certainly better than our NATO satellites and listening post, for our assets had been destroyed or rendered useless.
America did not control the skies above it's own landmass and was technically electronically blinded and almost totally mute with all the jamming going on. The few F-22 fighter jets that had been built were being flown as much as they could be with their high technology data strings almost useless.
The F-35 program had been largely scaled back (just as the F-22) due to cost, so what 5th generation fighter aircraft we could launch quickly needed parts and ground time to be worked on and fixed.. The USA's Generation 4 aircraft were no match for the Chinese and Russian generation 5 fighters which seemed to be every place none would expect in Europe, Africa, and Asia.. There was no contact from Alaska and the Canadians swore that was where many of the Russian and Chinese aircraft and cruise missiles were coming from.
Most of the power stations in the states had been either sabotaged or out right shelled by stand-off munitions except for the nuclear power plants. The nuclear plants had all been shut down voluntarily expecting to be bombed at any moment; yet six months into the war they had been physically untouched or bombed.
Then, the first year without a summer hit, and hit hard. People froze to death all over the world especially in the northern and southern hemispheres. In the northern hemisphere during the month of July with no electricity and many without water coupled with an average daily temperature of only 42 degrees Fahrenheit in Kansas people did what they had to do to survive. Some laid blame on the sun while others said it was due to all the volcanic activity. It did not matter what the cause was, people just froze to death especially at night.
In many of the cities without power it became worse than some Mad Max movie, with raiders and scavengers willing to kill anyone or anything that crossed their path just to see if the newly dead had anything the raiders might want. Rumors of Cannibalism and many other despicable acts that only some horror movie script writer could imagine were common place in the hearts of some city sections around the world.
The few enclaves that had some form of social order were becoming few and far between because people were starving and there were no supplies coming. After the first year of the freeze there were very few dogs and cats left to eat. Dog was actually pretty good and even cat and rat stew, if spiced correctly, could get a hungry person through the day. Speaking of which, spices became such a highly sought after commodity that they were worth several times the weight in gold.
The military at first tried to feed and clothe much of the population but there were to many and to few supplies for such an undertaking. When the trucks and trains stopped rolling either due to weather, lack of fuel, or hostile intercepts the food stopped arriving. Even for the military airlift command, resupply without fighter cover and AWACS radar, was a suicide mission; so all were basically grounded even if they had someplace they could land and take-off from. Any station, ship at sea, or airborne aircraft that activated it's radar was only minutes away from getting a hostile missile up it's radome.
General aviation using small single engine aircraft and flying low could get through occasionally, but as the aviation fuel dried up so did these bold endeavors.