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post 23 Sep 2014, 20:10
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And here's the Interceptor:

Suhoj Su-17/Su-22 "Fitter:" Ever since the GLA resurfaced in central Africa, intelligence organizations worldwide have noticed several firms purchasing retired combat aircraft and aircraft components from a variety of former Soviet Bloc, southeast Asian, and Middle Eastern states. In addition, reports confirm that there has been large scale theft of equipment from military installations from multiple failed states in central Africa, much like the thefts of equipment in the Middle East prior to the ISIS/GLA uprising during the 2010s. More troubling is the choice of equipment that these firms, now widely believed to be front groups for GLA-affiliated arms dealers, have been acquiring. Though the GLA did use small numbers of combat aircraft during the Global War on Terror, unsubstantiated reports from The Zone seem to imply that the GLA have been establishing a large and organized, if rudimentary, air force.

By far the most common aircraft seen is the Su-17 or Su-22 Fitter. Popular due to its ease of maintenance in the harsh climate of central Africa, the Su-17/22 is also well liked by the GLA for it's versatility in both fighter and bomber roles. Thus far, the Su-17/22s in GLA service have been seen equipped with the standard twin 30mm NR-30 autocannons as well as a variety of Soviet Bloc missiles, rockets, and bombs such as the R-30 infrared guided AAM. Though the Su-17/22s are no match for modern aircraft and AA missiles, reports indicate that the GLA have managed to upgrade most of the fleet with a variety of upgrade packages, and all are at least S-52 standard. Most of the Su-17/22s are in fact upgraded to S-54 (Su-17M4) standard, with radio, beacon, and inertial navigation systems, a Kljon-54 improved laser rangefinder, radio compass, SPO-15LE radar-warning system, an improved AL-21F-3, and capability to use TV-guided and anti-radiation missiles. Some have even been upgraded with a modernized cockpit and avionics, hands-on-throttle-and-stick controls, and a more modern Phazotron/Thompson “Phathom” radar.


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post 23 Sep 2014, 21:09
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Very nice description, although the part with the ISIS/GLA bit: Is it really necessary to tie in those events with ROTR canon? ISIS could be the progenitor of the GLA, although the GLA was founded in Central Asia. They could be a part of the Brotherhood of the White Falcon, which like ISIS used to be part of al-Qaida. Question to MARS: What current events should and shouldn't be part of the ROTR canon? 2014 is a bit into the timeline, suppose an alternate history/reality timeline, and the Manchuria nuclear disaster hasn't happened in real life (as far as we know).


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post 23 Sep 2014, 22:25
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Pretty much all of the events alluded to in Generals are supposed to have already happened, Generals itself was supposed to have started in 2013. I just consider it an alternate universe ala Red Alert at this point.


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post 24 Sep 2014, 6:51
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I would also consider it an alternate universe/timeline, albeit one where the main point of divergence from our own isn't clearly identified. There isn't any real use in constantly re-interpreting canon based on current events (hence why I'll stay clear of anything Ukraine or Middle East related for the foreseeable future) and we should simply keep the story rolling as we did before unless specifically noted. Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, ISIS and now that new Khorasan group are all connected in some way, spawned out of each other and whatever. The notion that Yusuuf's Brotherhood was involved with them as well and eventually linked up with Deathstrike's budding GLA still works, no matter how many more splinter groups anyhow.
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post 24 Sep 2014, 8:51
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I noted that the Leopard 3 uses the MG3 as its coaxial gun. I recall however that the MG3 is currently being phased out by the HK121 which is also expected to be produced in a coaxial configuration for armored vehicles.
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post 24 Sep 2014, 9:31
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Bah! The MG3 looks way cooler than the HK121. Aesthetics over functionality, baby!


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post 24 Sep 2014, 10:38
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Shockwave's Mammoth Tank please?

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post 24 Sep 2014, 11:15
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QUOTE (Mcbob @ 24 Sep 2014, 9:51) *
I noted that the Leopard 3 uses the MG3 as its coaxial gun. I recall however that the MG3 is currently being phased out by the HK121 which is also expected to be produced in a coaxial configuration for armored vehicles.


Actually, the turret-top machine gun of the Leopard is entirely fictionalised. AaronAsh designed it with that sci-fi looking barrel cover as a futuristic callback to the Vickers machine gun. The only ECA weapon that is directly modelled after the MG3 is the one on the Guard tower (which could also be a Spanish Ameli which looks very similar) and we used that because it's iconic for its appearance and high-rate of fire, being derived from the MG42. We always considered it a more interesting choice than all those newer LMGs, particularly that HK121 or its smaller cousin the MG4. We intentionally went for a retro Cold War/WW2 look with some elements of the ECA.
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QUOTE (MARS @ 24 Sep 2014, 12:15) *
Actually, the turret-top machine gun of the Leopard is entirely fictionalised. AaronAsh designed it with that sci-fi looking barrel cover as a futuristic callback to the Vickers machine gun. The only ECA weapon that is directly modelled after the MG3 is the one on the Guard tower (which could also be a Spanish Ameli which looks very similar) and we used that because it's iconic for its appearance and high-rate of fire, being derived from the MG42. We always considered it a more interesting choice than all those newer LMGs, particularly that HK121 or its smaller cousin the MG4. We intentionally went for a retro Cold War/WW2 look with some elements of the ECA.


Oh whoops, should have specified that my comment was based off the Leopard 3 lore written in an earlier post, but yeah that makes sense, especially considering that the 121 superficially follows the same pattern as the FN Minimi and SAW and every early 21st century LMG/GMG configuration since.
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post 25 Sep 2014, 21:23
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Doing something a little different for now, though I will be writing more tech stuff once this is out of the way. I just got inspired to do something different for now. Here's my attempt to explain some of the backstory of the General's verse in an in-character manner. I'll be covering the Generals and ZH campaigns, mostly stuff not covered in detail by the ROTR timeline as well as my own interpretations. Since this'll be likely too long to put in one post by itself I'll divide it into multiple parts. Here's the first part, the backstory leading up to the Chinese campaign.

A Brief History of the Global War on Terror

Introduction

Out of all the conflicts of the turbulent first decades of the 21st century, the most influential on the course of the century was the “Global War on Terror.” Having its root in the brushfire wars of the first decade, the Global War on Terror was the most destructive conflict seen since the end of the Second World War. Millions, mainly from the nuclear war in Middle East, are estimated to have died during the conflict. The war resulted in the branching of the world into a more fractious, multilateral political landscape, the political splintering of the Middle East, and the devastation of considerable parts of the Middle East, Central Asia, and regions of China and central Europe.

The Sunni Islamist group known as the Global Liberation Army had its genesis in groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda, and was born in the crucible of the conflicts in the wake of the Arab Spring. CIA reports trace the foundation of the group by links between ISIS and other rebel Sunni insurgent groups with Mohmar “Deathstrike's” Central Asian militia, which was in the process of taking control of former al-Qaeda affiliated groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as Uyghur nationalist and Sunni fundamentalist groups.

In the meantime, the world's attention was focused on other matters. Most nations were continuing to move on from the 2008 economic recession. The United States and NATO were extricating themselves from the Middle East after the destruction of Al-Qaeda and the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011. There was little political will for further conflict in the Middle East and many began to question the reasoning for the presence of American troops in Europe and Western Asia, calling for a withdrawal of troops there in the face of a growing Chinese power in Asia.

Interesting Times In East Asia

Western concerns about China reached a fever pitch during the Taiwan Conflict of October 2009. Over concerns about the economy both in China and Taiwan, hardliners in the People's Liberation Army overruled the Politburo and launched an invasion of Taiwan. Colonel Shin Fai, an up and coming infantry commander of the PLANMC, was chosen to lead the risky amphibious assault on the fortified island. As the US Navy was currently occupied with concerns about North Korean nuclear tests as well as operations in the Middle East, it was seen as the perfect time to make a grab for Taiwan. On October 1st, a single Chinese marine division landed on the northern province of Chilung, catching the Taiwanese military off guard and seizing Taipei within two days. Within hours of taking Taipei, the Chinese had landed more divisions on Taiwan, and the US Navy had dispatched Carrier Strike Group Eleven to aid the Taiwanese military in retaking the island.

The PLAAF and PLAN sent forces to intercept the American fleet, but an unknown commander of a PLAAF squadron refused the order to fire on the American warships. His decision reverberated throughout the other Chinese forces, and a major war in the Pacific was thus averted. As Taiwan had completely fallen to the PLA troops, the US fleet was called off.

In response to the political fallout from the Taiwan Conflict, a new reformist politician named Zhao Wei seized control of the chair of the Premier in a bloodless coup. Zhao Wei promptly initiated his“Modern Way” reforms targeted toward further economic liberalization and a lowering of China's notorious level of political corruption. Zhao still believed that the unification of Taiwan with the mainland was crucial to China's future prosperity. Colonel Shin was fortunate enough to be the only major officer involved with the invasion to not be dishonorably discharged and imprisoned. Zhao Wei personally vouched for Colonel Shin's expertise at taking Taiwan expediently and avoiding war with the United States.

The Second Korean War

By June 2012, the unresolved conflict on the Korean Peninsula had again come to a boil. A border incident where North Korean soldiers opened fire on South Korean border guards led to a full scale invasion of the South. Kim Jong-Un ordered a million strong invasion of South Korea, believing that the South Koreans and their American allies would be unable to stop a full force attack. South Korea wasted no time in launching its full military force against the attacking forces, and the United States deployed Carrier Strike Group Five to give sea and air support to the Eighth US Army, Seventh Air Force, and USMC regiments present in country.

Much to the North Koreans' chagrin, their under-equipped and poorly trained troops were no match for the American and South Korean armed forces. A notable incident was when an entire KPA battalion assaulted a forward USMC logistical outpost, overseen by then-Colonel Alexis Alexander, in the first weeks of the war. The vastly outnumbered US Marines held the line for hours, with air support from the USS George Washington and nearby air bases, until a US Army battalion arrived to relieve them and destroy the remnants of the KPA battalion.

The Second Korean War also was the proving ground for a few new technologies devised by the United States. As North Korean tanks poured across the 38th parallel, the US Army deployed a number of the experimental M1A4 Abrams tanks for battlefield testing. The M1A4 was more than a match for any armored vehicle the KPA had, and its PALADIN point defense laser system was valuable for neutralizing KPA ATGMs. Even more influential and noteworthy than the M1A4 PALADIN was the first battlefield use of the SDI particle cannon network. Created to serve as an anti-ballistic missile system, the particle cannon network proved to be just as effective when used as a large scale tactical and strategic weapon. US troops on the ground would call in strikes from particle accelerators positioned in Alaska and Hawaii. Entire KPA companies, weapons factories, arms depots, and missile launch sites would vanish from the face of the earth under the particle accelerator's white hot directed energy beam. The particle beam accelerators, in addition to the AEGIS warships present with the Carrier Strike Group, prevented North Korea from successfully utilizing their nuclear arsenal as South Korean and US forces pushed the KPA back over into North Korea with minimal casualties to the American and South Koreans.

The United States and Republic of Korea took the initiative, crossing the border and making an amphibious landing at the coastal North Korean city of Wonsan in July. Colonel Alexander was placed in a major commanding role in the amphibious landing. The US and ROK Marines destroyed Wonsan's weapons manufacturing capabilities, crippling the North Korean war machine and clearing the path to Pyongyang.

By this point in the war, the North Korean government had resorted to sending unarmed civilians to slow down advancing troops, relying on the fact that South Korean and US troops would be inclined to give the refugees aid and shelter. Kim Jong-un was subsequently removed from power by a putsch launched by several KPA generals. The KPA high command had seen the writing on the wall and knew that they had no chance of stopping the Americans and South Koreans from conquering all of North Korea. Their best bet was to surrender now and hope for relatively favorable peace terms. Fortunately for the coup-de-etat forces, South Korea had no political will to annex North Korea. The non-existent infrastructure and widespread poverty and lack of education would be a significant drain on South Korea's economy for decades to come, should the Republic of Korea take in the failed state. To the United States' frustration, the ROK government decided to let the new North Korean military government remain in power albeit with a much diminished military force. Interestingly enough, the Chinese had elected to stay out of the conflict entirely, leaving Kim Jong-un to fend for himself as the US/ROK forces conducted a lightning offensive all the way to the outskirts of Pyongyang.

The Dragon Awakes

Regardless of the origins of their ideology, the newly created Global Liberation Army had a clear goal; to oust foreign powers from what they viewed as Islamic lands. As the world's eyes were focused on the GLA-initiated wars in Syria and Iraq, a Uyghur Chinese general, Ismail Khan, had secretly supplied Uyghur rebels with information and codes for Chinese nuclear warheads. While NATO debated sending airstrikes to back the Iraqi government and Free Syrian Army as they prematurely withdrew from Afghanistan, the GLA believed that it was time to send a message to the People's Republic of China in order to convince the major power to withdraw from Turkic lands in the west.

Their target was no less than the 2013 National Day parade in Beijing. Thanks to their contact in the PLA, General Khan, GLA terrorists were able to infiltrate the city and prepare a major terror attack that would dwarf any other before it. Chaos erupted during the commemorative military parade as GLA suicide bombers and gun men attacked civilian onlookers. Due to security concerns before the parade, however, the honor guard at the parade had been armed with live ammunition for their Type 56 rifles and were able to engage and defeat the terrorists. Unfortunately, their brave efforts were in vain as the GLA terrorists were able to detonate one of the stolen 5-kiloton nuclear bombs provided by Ismail Khan, smuggled into the city before the parade by means of a truck. The result was the most devastating terrorist attack in history, with thousands dead, including Premier Zhao Wei and several other high ranking members of the Politburo, and Beijing's Forbidden City utterly destroyed. A PLA security detail located nearby were able to locate where the GLA had been hiding as well as their remaining stocks of nuclear weapons. Enraged by the savage attack on Beijing, the security detail rounded up any military survivors of the attack and charged in with air support, destroying the bunker and any GLA fighters in the area. A new premier, Hu Xiaolin, was quickly selected in an emergency meeting of the Politburo. Hu immediately addressed the nation in an impassioned speech. The speech was short, but it would be considered one of most rousing speeches in known memory. After the GLA had publicly claimed responsibility for the attack, the Chinese government immediately organized a counter offensive, recruiting a national defense force known as the “Red Guard.” Recruiting officers were swarmed by millions of young Chinese men willing to give whatever it took to defend their homeland from the Islamist threat.

Four leading PLA generals were appointed to head the offensive; General Ta Hun Kwai, a commander of an elite armored division; General Shin Fai, head of the PLAMC's commando units; General Tsing Shi Tao, the chief of the PLA's nuclear energy program and expert in nuclear arms, brought in to help deal with and secure any nuclear arms the GLA might have acquired; and General Leiong Leang, commander of the PLA's special weapons division. GLA cells had surfaced in Hong Kong and near the Three Gorges Dam, destroying the Tsing Ma bridge (along with the bulk of PLA reinforcements tasked with ousting the GLA) and seizing the Hong Kong Convention Center, necessitating its destruction by the PLA as they retook the city. However, even with the Chinese deploying their Black Lotus agent to the field, the GLA managed to destroy the Three Gorges Dam. The effects were catastrophic, causing heavy damage to the Chinese economy and flooding the immediate area.

Despite the nearly crippling loss of the dam, the PLA discovered the GLA's plan to poison the Yangtze river. The Chinese quickly mobilized to the Tanggula mountains in Tibet to destroy the GLA chemical weapons factory as well as invading the GLA occupied nation of Kyrgyzstan in order to pursue the perpetrators of the Beijing terrorist attack. As the conflict had spread out of China's borders, the United States gave the Chinese troops air cover from Diego Garcia, aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean, and Bagram Air Base as the PLA advanced into Central Asia in pursuit of the retreating GLA. In the meantime, US Special Forces and other American troops were highly active in Afghanistan, capturing and killing GLA officers and destroying GLA supply operations in a series of highly effective lighting raids.

Balykchy and Bishkek soon fell to the Chinese onslaught, and soon the GLA were pushed back to Dushanbe in Tajikistan. The Uyghur separatists, aided by the mercenary sniper Jarmen Kell, made their final stand on a large base and chemical weapons facility located on a plateau near the capital city, where they were attacked by an entire PLA battalion. Though the GLA had constructed their ultimate weapon, the Scud Storm, on the plateau, the Chinese made use of nuclear arms including tactical nuclear weaponry to destroy the entrenched GLA forces in a long and brutal siege. After the main GLA base on the plateau fell, the GLA retreated to fortified positions in the now IED covered mountains, hoping to outlast the PLA forces in a vicious war of attrition. The Chinese forces responded with heavy use of nuclear and incendiary weaponry. Given the GLA's poor reputation to civilized people, the Chinese faced little opprobrium for their usage of such weaponry. Despite the heavy casualties and the fact that a portion of the GLA forces had escaped into the hinterlands, the Chinese threw a victory parade in the grateful city of Dushanbe.


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post 25 Sep 2014, 21:55
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It is a very nice story although I think it is just a bit too early, timeline-wise. The GWOT has already been established to start in 2019 with the nuclear attack in Beijing and in my own opinion these dates are just too early. If you change the dates then it is perfect in my eyes, completely canon-worthy.


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Krieger, do you think graphene would be a potential armor, and if so why isn't it widespread?


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Economicly I get why annexing north korea would be a bad idea...Dont they have like untapped natural resources?

Plus Its a matter of pride culture and alot of other factors....Just because the north says NORTH KOREA BEST KOREA doesnt mean the south doesnt whisper it under thier breath....
For the US to leave north alone and the cheap manpower and not even put bases there doesnt make much sense either


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An excellent retelling of the GWOT period of the story, Krieger. This is entirely canon-compatible aside from the fact that you seem to be operating in a different, more present day oriented time scale. But the story itself is definitely one of the best I've seen here so far. I'm very much looking forward to a similar take on the other half of the GWOT, the aftermath, the African resource rush and other periods.

As for your point, Bruce, it -does- actually seem believable to me that SK would lack the political will to unify with NK under the circumstances of this story. In reality, they might be more inclined to install a puppet regime or establish a two-state federation kinda thing in the event that the Workers' Party government should die, but I don't think they would be very thrilled at the prospect of integrating a bankrupt 1950s economy along with an impoverished, uneducated and politically indoctrinated population into their own at a moment's notice. For a modern industrial country like SK, this would amount to chaining themselves to a decaying corpse for decades to come, which is why the ROTR canon take on the Korean unification started off with a more successful Northern invasion that destroyed so much of SK's economy that they might as well rebuild the -entire- country from scratch after the DPRK was abolished and annexed.
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So what you guys never noticed his story until I asked about graphene? Hrmph...


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I did notice it, when I returned from my trip at 23:30 in the evening when I couldn't muster the attention to read through and process it. It was on my list of stuff to catch up on though.
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QUOTE (Svea Rike @ 1 Oct 2014, 7:37) *
Krieger, do you think graphene would be a potential armor, and if so why isn't it widespread?

I recall there are efforts to make armor using graphene today, so I suppose graphene-like composites could be used as armor.

QUOTE ((USA)Bruce @ 1 Oct 2014, 8:13) *
Economicly I get why annexing north korea would be a bad idea...Dont they have like untapped natural resources?

Plus Its a matter of pride culture and alot of other factors....Just because the north says NORTH KOREA BEST KOREA doesnt mean the south doesnt whisper it under thier breath....
For the US to leave north alone and the cheap manpower and not even put bases there doesnt make much sense either



QUOTE (MARS @ 1 Oct 2014, 8:27) *
An excellent retelling of the GWOT period of the story, Krieger. This is entirely canon-compatible aside from the fact that you seem to be operating in a different, more present day oriented time scale. But the story itself is definitely one of the best I've seen here so far. I'm very much looking forward to a similar take on the other half of the GWOT, the aftermath, the African resource rush and other periods.

As for your point, Bruce, it -does- actually seem believable to me that SK would lack the political will to unify with NK under the circumstances of this story. In reality, they might be more inclined to install a puppet regime or establish a two-state federation kinda thing in the event that the Workers' Party government should die, but I don't think they would be very thrilled at the prospect of integrating a bankrupt 1950s economy along with an impoverished, uneducated and politically indoctrinated population into their own at a moment's notice. For a modern industrial country like SK, this would amount to chaining themselves to a decaying corpse for decades to come, which is why the ROTR canon take on the Korean unification started off with a more successful Northern invasion that destroyed so much of SK's economy that they might as well rebuild the -entire- country from scratch after the DPRK was abolished and annexed.


I would have thought that the US would have put forward bases in North Korea and finished the job once and for all, for fear of it happening again, or at least installed a pro-Southern head of state, but in ROTR's take it was already decided that the Second Korean War wouldn't resolve the Korean question completely as South Korea didn't have the political will to unite with NK. You could also say that events in the Middle East started to draw attention away from the Korean peninsula, and given that the Second War was much more one sided than the first, resulting in NK losing its head of state, people may have figured it was "good enough" for now.


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Okay, I've made some edits to the Crusader's lore description. Does this work or are there any preliminary edits required?


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Shockwave's Mammoth Tank please?

And the Wraith Tank.

And the first generation (Armor General's) Bradleys. Thanks in advance!


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Hey DerKrieger,
Are you currently working on any new updates too this?
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Sadly I haven't as of yet, but I do have further plans to write more. I've just been quite busy lately.


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So... you still working on something Krieger? Cause I would love your take on the Venom suit.


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Yeah, I'm working on part II of the Generals backstory (the GLA part). I can do something on the Venom once I'm done with all that, though!


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The GLA Counter-Offensive:

GLA forces regrouped in southeastern Kazakhstan, destroying a Chinese forward base and looting UN relief supplies from an American-led outpost outside of Almaty, as well as committing an abominable massacre by using anthrax weaponry to wipe out a Uzbek village that had been giving support to Chinese troops. In order to attain more supplies and to further demoralize their enemies, the GLA then moved to assault the Kazakh capital of Astana, fomenting unrest and riots to spearhead their assault. Experienced Iraqi mercenary sniper Jarmen Kell was present in Astana overseeing the GLA task force sent to take the city. Jarmen Kell had earned his fame as a sniper in the US invasion of Iraq a decade prior, as well as the Islamic State war in Syria and Iraq just prior to the foundation of the GLA. The Chinese occupational garrison and small US peacekeeping task force headquartered at the air port could not stop the GLA forces from taking the city and were forced to retreat as the GLA assaulted their respective headquarters in the city. Astana, a shining jewel of the growing Kazakh economy, was nearly razed to the ground by the savage assault, and the Kazakh president and his family were forced to flee with the rest of the government. The GLA set up fortifications and IEDs outside the city to prevent a further counter attack on the city. Meanwhile in Iraq, the GLA forces had routed the Iraqi government's counteroffensive and had pushed on to seize Baghdad, leaving the Iraqi military to regroup in the Shia east and south. Iraq and much of Syria would remain as a GLA stronghold until their crushing defeat by the US later.

The leader of the Global Liberation Army was a man known only as “Mohmar Deathstrike,” a charismatic Central Asian warlord who had earned a degree of renown among fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Though Deathstrike was more interested in a pan-Turkic federation of states in Central Asia that would have more to do with secular and tribal nationalism than the ideal of a caliphate, Deathstrike was a skilled politician who had no qualms about allying himself with Islamist groups world wide in order to bring the fight to his enemies elsewhere. Deathstrike built his militant group around affiliations with local extremist organizations such as the Islamic State (and former Taliban allies), the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and the East Turkestan Islamic Movement.

An early and pivotal ally was the extremist imam Abdul bin Yusuuf, an extremely controversial firebrand cleric from Saudi Arabia whose “Brotherhood of the White Falcon” was responsible for numerous terror attacks on the Arabian peninsula. Bin Yusuuf and many members of the Brotherhood of the White Falcon were ex-Al Qaeda who had left due to feeling that the organization was too passive and ineffectual for them. The Brotherhood was infamous for their attacks, intent on killing Jews, Shia Muslims, and anyone else they viewed as undesirable or heretical, and saw their prime goal as the overthrowing of the House of Sa'ud in favor of a new government more favorable to their brand of Sunni fundamentalism. Bin Yusuuf was the prime individual in the linking of the Middle Eastern ISIL with Deathstrike's Central Asian group to found the core of the GLA.

Deathstrike's immediate subordinates were all from middle-class or higher origin and shared a common ideology. Rodall Juhziz was of middle-class Palestinian origin, and earned his infamy as a demolitions expert for Hamas after graduating from university with a degree in engineering and went underground, upset at what he viewed as illegal occupation of his homeland by Israelis. Juhziz soon earned infamy as one of the organizations most effective demolitions experts, and eventually became a leader in the group. Later on, he found the rhetoric and effectiveness of ISIL to be far more suited to his tactics and joined the group, staying with it as it metamorphosed into the GLA. It is notable that Juhziz saw the infamous Mufti Amin al-Husseini as his political idol. In fact, Juhziz did not deny the existence of the Holocaust, but rather saw the tragedy as a model to be followed by Middle Eastern governments in order to prevent further conflict with Israel which Juhziz saw as inevitable. Juhziz would first come to the attention of the United States by his bombing of the littoral combat ship USS Nelsen and the attack on the US embassy in Cairo.

The enigmatic figure known as “Dr. Thrax,” his actual name to this day still classified, was a Jordanian immunologist of upper-middle class origin. Educated in the top universities of Jordan, “Dr. Thrax” was radicalized by contact with Muslim Brotherhood members at his university and would end up making biological weaponry for Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated extremist groups in the Middle East. It wasn't long before Dr. Thrax was declared an outlaw by the Jordanian government and he was forced to flee to Muslim Brotherhood territory in Egypt by 1995. There, he continued research on more virulent strains of anthrax. Dr. Thrax went on to establish numerous labs across the Middle East and Asia to develop chemical and biological arms for the highest bidder. Sources indicate that Dr. Thrax is extremely paranoid of assassination attempts and never sleeps in the same bed twice in a row. Many note that he undergoes frequent plastic surgery to alter his appearance; some unsubstantiated reports claim that “Dr. Thrax” is actually a codename referring to multiple individuals involved in the production of bio-chemical weapons for extremist groups in the Middle East. When the GLA arose, Dr. Thrax was one of the first Muslim Brotherhood members to swear allegiance to the group, handing over his notable experience in bio-chemical warfare. Dr. Thrax also developed the more lethal “Anthrax Beta” and “Anthrax Gamma” strains.

Prince Kassad was a minor Sa'udi prince who grew up with little responsibility and surrounded by opulence and luxury. As Kassad grew older, he became disillusioned with the decadence of the Sa'ud clan and the Western culture that had influenced them, seeing the leadership of Sa'udi Arabia as nothing more than spoiled takfiri (apostates) who allowed American soldiers and Western decadence into the sacred land of Sa'udi Arabia. Prince Kassad went underground in 2008 and joined Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb, starting a three-year stretch of terrorist attacks in the Mediterranean area. He would later head to Libya in 2011 to join the fight against the corrupt autocrat Muammar Gaddafi, and would establish his organization, the “Cobra Cell” and its base of operations in Tripoli.

Emboldened by their recent successes against small NATO and Chinese forces, the GLA decided on their next target. Ever since the Chinese offensive into Central Asia and the US invasion of Afghanistan, the presence of American aircraft had regularly stymied the GLA. US forces could be supplied and reinforced by air and could bomb GLA militants with impunity. Mohmar “Deathstrike,” emboldened by GLA successes in the Middle East while the rest of the world's eyes were on Central Asia and Mesopotamia, proposed a raid on Incirlik Air Base in Turkey while he launched his plan to start a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The attack was clearly not without risk, but the GLA were confident that with support from backers in Turkey their mission would be successful. So too was the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran; many of the GLA's backers were influential Wahhabi individuals in Saudi Arabia who disapproved of the more moderate and pro-Western aspects of the ruling family, and Iran had even sent aid to GLA operatives in order to destabilize Sa'udi Arabia and to keep the Americans out of the Middle East. Yet, Deathstrike saw it as a necessary move in order to build the new Caliphate.

To that end, a force from occupied Syria was dispatched to eliminate the NATO airbase at Incirlik. Incirlik was home to NATO tanker and transport aircraft which were vital to continued operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, as well as a small detachment of combat aircraft. The GLA raiding force set up their command post on the edge of the Taurus mountains facing Incirlik, seeing the mountains as an ideal place to put artillery and surface to air missiles. This decision proved crucial; though the first attack wave was wiped out to the man by a passing combat air patrol, the GLA fighters were able to hole up in the mountains and shoot down subsequent waves of aircraft before sending down a task force to nearly destroy Incirlik completely, destroying several landed transport and supply aircraft and temporarily denying use of the base.

The aftermath of the Incirlik raid shocked the American government, and a small task force in Central Asia, led by famed Special Forces member Colonel John Burton, was deployed to seize the GLA's main source of anthrax and other bioweapons, the former Soviet bio-warfare laboratory on Vozrožděnija peninsula in the Aral Sea. The American task force quickly defeated the GLA garrison on Vozrožděnija and sent in specialists to permanently decommission the toxins. Horrified by the loss of one of their most devastating weapons, the GLA quickly sent a sizeable army to retake the facility, including their top commando Jarmen Kell. As the current president had promised to draw down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and avoid future engagements overseas during his first presidential campaign, the American task force was relatively small and lightly armed, and found themselves unable to stop the GLA army attacking the island. Realizing this, the US Army troops decided to destroy the bunkers before the GLA got to them. Despite a hard fought battle where Colonel Burton personally took the field to fight against the terrorists, the outnumbered American soldiers were forced to retreat from the depot before they had managed to destroy all the the depot's stockpiles.

In the meantime the Chinese viewed the battle at Vozrožděnija with apprehension, but they had a plan to repay the GLA for the nuclear attack on Beijing. Chinese and Pakistani agents contacted a GLA-affiliated Afghan warlord and rival to Mohmar Deathstrike, Usman Gulbuddin Muttawakil, and promised to aid him if he led a revolt against his former ally. Such aid came in the form of money and arms, including several nuclear warheads to use against the loyalist GLA cells. Muttawakil took the offer gladly and planned his revolt from a forward base near the Kazakh city of Lenger. However, Deathstrikes' spies had learned of Muttawakil's treachery, as well as when and where the Chinese would be transporting the nuclear weapons to Muttawakil's base. An ambush was prepared in a hilly pass on the way to Lenger, and the nuclear weaponry was secured in Deathstrike's men's hands. The loyalist GLA commander decided to send the nuclear bomb trucks into Muttawakil's base as planned and detonate them once there as a fitting end to the traitor, and message to anyone else who dared break away from the GLA. While Muttawakil's army had discovered the loyalists and attacked in force, the convoy, now under loyalist control, made its way into Muttawakil's base and detonated themselves once within, killing Muttawakil and destroying much of the base. The loyalist GLA managed to defeat the remaining rebels as well as a Chinese support force that arrived in a late attempt to aid Muttawakil's forces. Though the crushed rebellion was a success for Deathstrike, it foreshadowed future splits in GLA command when victory would elude them.

With the way in Kazakhstan clear, Deathstrike and his colleagues decided that it was time for their greatest undertaking yet. The Bajkonur Cosmodrome is one of the world's premier space launch facilities, and Sojuz and other rockets were frequently used there to launch payloads into space. Deathstrike reasoned as most Russian-designed rockets were derived from ICBMs, then it would be possible to convert them into makeshift missiles for the transcontinental delivery of WMD weaponry. If they could seize the launch facility intact, then no infidel land would be safe from attack.

However, a multinational force had been garrisoned at Bajkonur due to intelligence reports suggesting that the GLA may attempt to take the facility. Both the US and Chinese deployed an entire division of troops to defend Bajkonur, the largest US deployment of troops in the war thus far. Kazakh and other local troops were present at the garrison as well. Regardless, GLA scouts were able to reconnoitre the facility from afar, gaining valuable intel on the defensive garrison at Bajkonur.

The allied forces managed to detect the GLA offensive as they neared Bajkonur, but the GLA fighters were able to use the terrain effectively to stop the defenders from slaughtering the GLA troops. Allied aircraft and artillery fire dealt a heavy toll on the jihadist attackers, however, and the fighting increased in intensity as the GLA neared the cosmodrome, the defenders managing to raid the GLA forward base with varying degree of success.

It became apparent to the defenders that the GLA force was numerous enough to warrant the usage of tactical nuclear missiles and a particle beam cannon. The defending coalition suspected that the GLA would not use their “Scud Storm” weapon to destroy Bajkonur but had installed a particle beam to intercept any ballistic missiles, based off of the latest installment of the United States' defensive anti-ballistic missile network. The Chinese military had stockpiled a very small number of tactical nuclear missiles in the case of a large GLA attack. Both of these weapons would be used offensively during the GLA attack on the Cosmodrome, destroying a good portion of the GLA's forward base. Yet neither were able to decisively defeat the attacking force.

Fearing another strike, the GLA commander used the common GLA tactic of deploying bomb trucks disguised as allied military vehicles and captured Humvees loaded with bombs into the US and Chinese garrisons to destroy the power plants powering their tactical weapons and defensive networks. The attack was a great success, crippling the defender's efforts and leaving them open for attack from the GLA's armored spearhead. Tanks, artillery, and other support vehicles stormed the coalition base, forcing them to retreat from the command facility. Fearing a total loss, the coalition forces changed their strategy from defense to destroying the command facility. The GLA had established a “Scud Storm” weapon and used it to strike the defenders before routing them with a two front attack. In the end, the coalition forces could not hold the launch pad and were forced to retreat.

Despite heavy casualties, the GLA were able to capture the Bajkonur launch site and arm a missile with a biological warhead. Deathstrike now had multiple choices of a target. A further attack on China was considered but rejected; China had already taken significant damage by means of the GLA. Elements of the Russian government had given support to the GLA in their efforts to break American control of the Middle East, so an attack on Russia was out. Europe was a strong candidate, and the Americans had not yet installed the particle beam defenses in their small bases there. Many of Deathstrike's subordinates thought that an attack on Rome, the heart of western Christianity, would be a severe blow to their enemies' morale. London, Paris, or Berlin were also choice targets. One of the Gulf cities such as Dubai was seen as a possible target; destroying an outpost of western decadence so close to Mecca was a tempting idea but was likewise rejected due to the need to strike a more militarily and politically damaging target.

Despite Deathstrike's subordinates' protests, the United States was deemed too risky; the Americans had started to retreat from the world stage due to war weariness and concern over economic issues, as well as the recent construction of a layered anti-ballistic missile system. Local energy resource exploitation and the recent development of practical fusion reactors greatly lessened the US reliance on fossil fuels from foreign sources as well. Launching a missile at the United States would not only have a very low chance of reaching the target, it would also bring the full attention of the world's most powerful military on the GLA.

But there was another target that was a prime choice for the GLA. The Israelis had not yet received particle beam defensive cannons from the United States. Tel Aviv, Israel's financial capital, was seen as an affront to the self-proclaimed defenders of monotheism; the Israelis were seen as foreign invaders who time and time again had managed to defeat armies led by Muslims when they attempted to purge them from the region. This time, however, the GLA had a weapon potentially capable of crushing the invader state in one blow. The decision was quickly made, and a Sojuz rocket was prepared with an anthrax warhead. That evening, downtown Tel Aviv was hit with the worst terror attack in Israel's history, throwing the Middle Eastern nation into chaos and outraging American and Israelis alike. With such a display of power, the United States and NATO saw the GLA as an imminent threat and moved towards a far more direct role in the war.


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Yes, finally! An excellent story, Krieger! It's a bit difficult to form a timeline since I find no dates, but still a superb job. I hope the next part comes sooner than later.


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