Collapse of the United States Armed Forces

The Collapse of the United States Armed Forces began shortly after the official beginning of the conflict in the United States, resulting in a complete breakdown of the United States military, as generals, officers and many soldiers defected to various sides in the war. Those who remained loyal to the United States either fled into exile, were imprisoned or killed, or fled to the Rocky Mountains and formed resistance movements.
== Breakup of the military ==
With the declaration of the People’s Union of America and the fall of several Rust Belt states to the new country, the United States began to panic as fear and paranoia ran throughout the streets. Unrest grew and grew in the South, Northeast and Midwest in the mainland. While some of the American military, soldiers and personnel remained loyal to the USA, overall support was wavering, one of the major reasons the United States was defeated. As socialist rebels made advancements throughout New England, the revolutionary atmosphere and propaganda made by Emma Goldman proved to be persuading to many young soldiers, resulting in hundreds of desertions, and with tales of atrocities reaching far and wide of the United States against civilians it prompted further desertions, from police to the navy. 
A few months later came the mass desertions of the Atlantic and Pacific navies, who refused orders to embargo the rebel countries in July. As a result, the PUA, Legion of America and Southern Union gained a strategic advantage in bombarding American forces. As the United States suffered loss after loss, more and more defections took place, as even high-ranking officials abandoned the Federal cause. 
In August, a high number of generals, commanders and soldiers, in a secret agreement with the governors of Oregon and California defected to the newly declared Republic of California. With such a high number of losses for the Western theater of the war, the Federalist cause to protect and secure the West Coast was decapitated. Now the Legionist army had the advantage, but the lands they were quite overstretched in taking over the Western United States.
As the United States began to collapse and the Federalists were overrun to Washington D.C., shortly before the city fell, what remained of the high command evacuated through the Panama Canal and into Hawaii and Alaska. After the capital fell, any remaining forces loyal to the USA either fled into the Pacific, became refugees in Canada or fought on as guerrillas.
== Rocky Mountain Resistance ==
A slew of military officers and soldiers loyal to general Dwight D. Eisenhower during the Battle of Denver fled into the sparsely populated Rocky Mountains to form what would eventually be called the Rocky Mountain Resistance, pushing back and sabotaging Legionist efforts to pacify and snuff out what remains of the resistance movement.
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