Arabian War (2011–2032)

The Arab War refers to the wars involving the Arab countries that would come to constitute the Arab League in the 2020's. While over half of the conflict took place in Syria under the iron fist of Bashar al-Assad, the most prominent fighting would unfold several years after the most recent Turkish invasion of Syria, as the Baathist government of Bashar al-Assad was welcomed back into the Arab League by his neighbors, most prominently in Lebanon, Palestine and Israel, while escalating tensions against the Erdogan regime in Turkey. Israel would be temporarily occupied by a far right government, but a NATO intervention and occupation between 2027 and 2033 would push them out of the country and result in the dissolution of the fascist state several years later.
==Background==
===Arab–Israeli conflict (1948–2022)===
The Arab–Israeli conflict was an intercommunal phenomenon involving political tension, military conflicts, and other disputes between Arab countries and Israel, which escalated during the 20th century, but had mostly faded out by the early 21st century. The roots of the Arab–Israeli conflict have been attributed to the support by Arab League member countries for the Palestinians, a fellow League member, in the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict; this in turn has been attributed to the simultaneous rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism towards the end of the 19th century, though the two national movements had not clashed until the 1920s.
Part of the Palestine–Israel conflict arose from the conflicting claims by these movements to the land that formed the British Mandatory Palestine, which was regarded by the Jewish people as their ancestral homeland, while at the same time it was regarded by the Pan-Arab movement as historically and currently belonging to the Arab Palestinians, and in the Pan-Islamic context, as Muslim lands. The sectarian conflict within the British Mandate territory between Palestinian Jews and Arabs escalated into a full-scale Palestinian civil war in 1947. Taking the side of the Palestinian Arabs, especially following the Israeli Declaration of Independence, the neighboring Arab countries invaded the by-then former Mandate territory in May 1948, commencing the First Arab–Israeli War. Large-scale hostilities mostly ended with ceasefire agreements after the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Peace agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt in 1979, resulting in Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula and the abolition of the military governance system in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in favor of Israeli Civil Administration and consequent unilateral annexation of the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem.
The nature of the conflict has shifted over the years from the large-scale, regional Arab–Israeli conflict to a more local Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which peaked during the 1982 Lebanon War when Israel intervened in the Lebanese Civil War to oust the Palestinian Liberation Organization from Lebanon. By 1983, Israel reached normalization with Christian-dominated Lebanese government, but the agreement was annulled the next year with Muslim and Druze militias' takeover of Beirut. With the decline of the 1987–1993 First Palestinian Intifada, the interim Oslo Accords led to the creation of the Palestinian National Authority in 1994, within the context of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. The same year, Israel and Jordan reached a peace accord. In 2002, the Arab League offered recognition of Israel by Arab countries as part of the resolution of the Palestine–Israel conflict in the Arab Peace Initiative. The initiative, which has been reconfirmed since, calls for normalizing relations between the Arab League and Israel, in exchange for a full withdrawal by Israel from the occupied territories (including East Jerusalem) and a "just settlement" of the Palestinian refugee problem based on UN Resolution 194. In the 1990s and early 2000s, a cease-fire had been largely maintained between Israel and Baathist Syria, as well as with Lebanon. Despite the peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan, the interim peace accords with the Palestinian Authority and the generally existing cease-fire, until the mid-2010s the Arab League and Israel had remained at odds with each other over many issues.
Developments in the course of the Syrian Civil War reshuffled the situation near Israel's northern border, putting the Syrian Arab Republic, Hezbollah and the Syrian opposition at odds with each other and complicating their relations with Israel, upon the emerging warfare with Iran. The conflict between Israel and Hamas-ruled Gaza, is also attributed to the Iran–Israel proxy conflict in the region. By 2017, Israel and several Arab Sunni states led by Saudi Arabia formed a semi-official coalition to confront Iran. This move and the Israeli normalization with Gulf States was marked by some as the fading of the Arab–Israeli conflict. Relations between then-Iraq, Syria and Jordan remained relatively unchanged upon the formation of Arabia, that is until the mid-2020's when Baathism began to once again take power in the region, and relations between the nations of Arabia and Israel soured.
===Israeli–Lebanese conflict (1968–2006)===
The Israeli–Lebanese conflict refers to the principle confrontations that continued for decades in the subsequent conflict succeeding the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. The principle belligerents involved Israel, Lebanon and Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization and various pro-Israeli and pro-Iranian militia movements.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) recruited militants in Lebanon from among the families of Palestinian refugees who had been expelled or fled due to the creation of Israel in 1948. After the PLO leadership and its Fatah brigade were expelled from Jordan in 1970-71 for fomenting a revolt, they entered Southern Lebanon, resulting in an escalation of internal and cross-border clashes. Meanwhile, demographic tensions over the Lebanese National Pact led to the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990). PLO was one of the key factors to the eruption of the Lebanese Civil War and its bitter battles with Lebanese factions caused foreign intervention. Israel's 1978 invasion of Lebanon pushed the PLO north of the Litani River, but the PLO continued their campaign against Israel. Israel invaded Lebanon again in 1982, in alliance with major Lebanese Christian militias Lebanese Forces and Kataeb Party, and forcibly expelled the PLO. In 1983, Israel and Lebanon signed the May 17 Agreement providing a framework for the establishment of normal bilateral relations between the two countries, but relations were disrupted with takeover of Shia and Druze militias in early 1984. Israel withdrew from most of Lebanon in 1985, but kept control of a 12-mile security buffer zone, held with the aid of proxy militants in the South Lebanon Army (SLA).
In 1985, Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shia radical movement sponsored by Iran, called for armed struggle to end the Israeli occupation of Lebanese territory. When the Lebanese civil war ended and other warring factions agreed to disarm, Hezbollah and the SLA refused. Combat with Hezbollah weakened Israeli resolve and led to a collapse of the SLA and an Israeli withdrawal in 2000 to their side of the UN designated border.
====2006 Lebanese War====
The 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War and known in Lebanon as the July War (Arabic: حرب تموز‎, Ḥarb Tammūz) and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War (Hebrew: מלחמת לבנון השנייה‎, Milhemet Levanon HaShniya), was a 34-day military conflict in Lebanon, Northern Israel and the Golan Heights. The principal parties were Hezbollah paramilitary forces and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The conflict started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect in the morning on 14 August 2006, though it formally ended on 8 September 2006 when Israel lifted its naval blockade of Lebanon. Due to unprecedented Iranian military support to Hezbollah before and during the war, some consider it the first round of the Iran–Israel proxy conflict, rather than a continuation of the Arab–Israeli conflict.
Following the overthrow of Ba'athist Iraq and subsequent fiat-occupation emboldening neighboring Iran - on the opposite side of the country in neighboring Syria, then-Lebanese PM Rafic Hariri is assassinated. US President George W. Bush meets with future-Prime Minister Saad Hariri, promising an ultimately-misguided investigation into the involvement of the Assad regime. A few months later, the true perpetrators reveal themselves, catching the Allies off-guard with a broadside involving terrorist attacks, and full-scale war...
Citing Israeli control of the Shebaa farms territory, Hezbollah continued cross border attacks intermittently over the next six years. Hezbollah now sought the release of Lebanese citizens in Israeli prisons and successfully used the tactic of capturing Israeli soldiers as leverage for a prisoner exchange in 2004. The capturing of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah ignited the 2006 Lebanon War. Its ceasefire called for the disarmament of Hezbollah and the respecting of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon by Israel.
The conflict was precipitated by the 2006 Hezbollah cross-border raid. On 12 July 2006, Hezbollah fighters fired rockets at Israeli border towns as a diversion for an anti-tank missile attack on two armored Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border fence. The ambush left three soldiers dead. Two Israeli soldiers were abducted and taken by Hezbollah to Lebanon. Five more were killed in Lebanon, in a failed rescue attempt. Hezbollah demanded the release of Lebanese prisoners held by Israel in exchange for the release of the abducted soldiers. Israel refused and responded with airstrikes and artillery fire on targets in Lebanon. Israel attacked both Hezbollah military targets and Lebanese civilian infrastructure, including Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport. The IDF launched a ground invasion of Southern Lebanon. Israel also imposed an air and naval blockade. Hezbollah then launched more rockets into northern Israel and engaged the IDF in guerrilla warfare from hardened positions.
The conflict is believed to have killed between 1,191 and 1,300 Lebanese people, and 165 Israelis. It severely damaged Lebanese civil infrastructure, and displaced approximately one million Lebanese and 300,000–500,000 Israelis.
====2017–2022 Saudi Arabian–Lebanese crisis====
The Lebanon–Saudi Arabia crisis began when Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri abruptly announced his resignation while he was in Saudi Arabia on 4 November 2017. Shortly thereafter, the foreign relations between both countries and allied regional neighbors became increasingly strained. On 6 November, Saudi Arabia claimed Lebanon declared war between the two states, despite leaders of Lebanon stating otherwise. On 9 November, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates asked their citizens to leave Lebanon. The conflict is thought to be part of the larger Iran–Saudi Arabia cold war.
Lebanon's president and some Lebanese officials believe that Hariri's abrupt resignation was made under coercion by Saudis and have claimed that the Saudis have kept him hostage. Iran, Hezbollah and some analysts also believe that this was to create a pretext for war against Hezbollah. On 21 November, Hariri resigned in Beirut but he immediately suspended it. Hariri rescinded the resignation completely on 5 December, leading to years of protest and unrest.
The 2019–2022 Lebanese protests were a series of civil protests in Lebanon, initially triggered by planned taxes on gasoline, tobacco and online phone calls such as through WhatsApp, but quickly expanding into a country-wide condemnation of sectarian rule, stagnant economy, unemployment, endemic corruption in the public sector, legislation (such as banking secrecy) that was perceived to shield the ruling class from accountability and failures from the government to provide basic services such as electricity, water and sanitation. The protests first erupted on 17 October 2019.
As a result of the protests, Lebanon entered a political crisis, with Prime Minister Hariri once again tendering his resignation and echoing protesters' demands for a government of independent specialists. Other politicians targeted by the protests have remained in power. On 19 December 2019, former Minister of Education Hassan Diab was designated the next prime minister and tasked with forming a new cabinet. Protests and acts of civil disobedience continued and expanded into Syria and Iraq, with protestors denouncing and condemning Diab’s designation as a ‘Fascist-Communist Coup’ spearheaded by the Syrian Social-Nationalist Party and others in the pro-Syrian/Resistance Axis 8 March Alliance.
===Iraq War (2003–2011)===
The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 that began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States–led coalition that overthrew the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government. US troops were officially withdrawn in 2011. The United States became re-involved in 2014 at the head of a new coalition, and the insurgency and many dimensions of the armed conflict continued until the establishment of the United Arabian Kingdom. The invasion occurred as part of the George W. Bush administration's War on terror following the September 11 attacks, despite no connection between Iraq and the attacks.
In October 2002, Congress granted Bush the power to decide whether to launch any military attack in Iraq. The Iraq War began on 20 March 2003, when the US, joined by the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland, launched a "shock and awe" bombing campaign. Iraqi forces were quickly overwhelmed as coalition forces swept through the country. The invasion led to the collapse of the Ba'athist government; Saddam Hussein was captured during Operation Red Dawn in December of that same year and executed three years later. The power vacuum following Saddam's demise and mismanagement by the Coalition Provisional Authority led to widespread civil war between Shias and Sunnis, as well as a lengthy insurgency against coalition forces. The United States responded with a build-up of 170,000 troops in 2007. This build-up gave greater control to Iraq's government and military, and was judged a success by many. In 2008, President Bush agreed to a withdrawal of all US combat troops from Iraq. The withdrawal was completed under Barack Obama in December 2011.
The United States based its rationale for the invasion on claims that Iraq had a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program and posed a threat to the United States and its allies. Additionally, some US officials falsely accused Saddam of harbouring and supporting al-Qaeda. In 2004, the 9/11 Commission concluded there was no evidence of any relationship between Saddam's regime and al-Qaeda. No stockpiles of WMDs or active WMD program were ever found in Iraq. Bush administration officials made numerous claims about a purported Saddam–al-Qaeda relationship and WMDs that were based on insufficient evidence rejected by intelligence officials. The rationale for war faced heavy criticism both domestically and internationally. Kofi Annan, then the Secretary-General of the United Nations called the invasion illegal under international law, as it violated the UN Charter. The 2016 Chilcot Report, a British inquiry into the United Kingdom's decision to go to war, concluded that not every peaceful alternative had been examined, that the UK and US had undermined the United Nations Security Council in the process of declaring war, that the process of identification for a legal basis of war was "far from satisfactory", and that, taken together, the war was unnecessary. When interrogated by the FBI, Saddam Hussein confirmed that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction prior to the US invasion.
In the aftermath of the invasion, Iraq held multi-party elections in 2005. Nouri al-Maliki became Prime Minister in 2006 and remained in office until 2014. The al-Maliki government enacted policies that alienated the country's previously dominant Sunni minority and worsened sectarian tensions. In the summer of 2014, ISIL launched a military offensive in northern Iraq and declared a worldwide Islamic caliphate, leading to Operation Inherent Resolve, another military response from the United States and its allies. According to a 2019 US Army study, Iran emerged as "the only victor" of the war.
An estimated 151,000 to 1,033,000 Iraqis died in the first three to five years of conflict. In total, the war caused 100,000 or more civilian deaths, as well as tens of thousands of military deaths. The majority of deaths occurred as a result of the insurgency and civil conflicts between 2004 and 2007. Subsequently, the War in Iraq of 2013 to 2017, which is considered a domino effect of the invasion and occupation, caused at least 155,000 deaths, in addition to the displacement of more than 3.3 million people within the country. Additionally, the war hampered the domestic popularity and public image of Bush, and also strongly affected Blair's popularity in the United Kingdom, leading in 2006 to his intention to resign under large pressure from his party.
===Syrian Civil War (2011–2022)===
The Syrian civil war (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية السورية‎, al-ḥarb al-ʾahlīyah as-sūrīyah) was a multi-sided civil war in Syria fought between the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic led by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, along with domestic and foreign allies, and various domestic and foreign forces opposing both the Syrian government and each other in varying combinations.
The unrest in Syria, part of a wider wave of the 2011 Arab Spring protests, grew out of discontent with the Syrian government and escalated to an armed conflict after protests calling for Assad's removal were violently suppressed. The war, which began on 15 March 2011 with major unrest in Damascus and Aleppo, was fought by several factions: the Syrian Armed Forces and its international allies, a loose alliance of mostly Sunni opposition rebel groups (including the Free Syrian Army), Salafi jihadist groups (including al-Nusra Front), the mixed Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), with a number of countries in the region and beyond being either directly involved or providing support to one or another faction (Iran, Russia, Turkey, the United States, as well as others).
 
Iran, Hezbollah, and the CSTO supported the Syrian Arab Republic and the Syrian Armed Forces militarily under the Axis of Resistance umbrella, with Russia conducting airstrikes and other military operations from September 2015 until February 2023. The U.S.-led international coalition, established in 2014 with the declared purpose of countering ISIL, conducted airstrikes primarily against ISIL as well as some against government and pro-government targets as well as deployed special forces and artillery units to engage ISIL on the ground. From 2015 to 2022, the U.S. supported the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria and its armed wing, the SDF, materially, financially, and logistically. Turkey was directly involved in operations against the Syrian government from August 2016 until 2022, not only supporting ISIL alongside token support to the U.S.-led coalition, but also actively supporting the Syrian opposition and occupying large swaths of northwestern Syria while engaging in significant ground combat with the SDF - particularly against the Syrian Kurds and YPG/YPJ, in an outpouring of a spillover from the Turkish government's ongoing war against the Kurdish minority in Turkey - as well as the Syrian government. However, Turkey and Jordan would begin rapproachment with the Assad regime in late 2021, despite being traditionally American allies. Between 2011 and 2017, fighting from the Syrian civil war spilled over into Lebanon as opponents and supporters of the Syrian government traveled to Lebanon to fight and attack each other on Lebanese soil, with ISIL and Al-Nusra also engaging the Lebanese Army. Furthermore, while officially neutral, Israel exchanged fire with Hezbollah and Iranian forces, whose presence in southwestern Syria it views as a threat. It has also carried out repeated strikes in the rest of Syria since the start of the war, mainly targeting alleged Iranian and Hezbollah militants.
International organizations criticized virtually all sides involved, including the Ba'athist Syrian government, ISIL, opposition rebel groups, Russia, Turkey, and the U.S.-led coalition of severe human rights violations and massacres. The war ended in a stalemate, with Assad remaining in power (although greatly weakened) until January 2030 and with Russia and Turkey maintaining a foothold in the region until the 2040's. Over 900,000 people die with over 29 million refugees displaces across the region. The devastation, akin to the Iraq War, leads to a power vacuum that would later be filled by ever more fervent extremists.
Assad would concede major influence to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in 2023, following renewed interest in the Arab Federation by Iraq. The Hashemite Kingdom of United Arabia is formed in early 2023 and would last until 2028 under the rule of Jordanian King Abdullah II, with a population of 78,367,000 and a military nearly 500,000-strong, wielding 70 attack helicopters, nearly 6,000 tanks, 14,000 armored fighting vehicles, and 5,500 artillery including nearly 1,000 rocket projectors.
===Skirmishes with Saudi Arabia (2024–2032)===
From 2024 to 2032, Arabia would engage in countless skirmishes with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Although the Saudis had their fair share of military hardware from the United States, the UAK was nearly as powerful as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE on land combined. Arabia was limited to what it could do in the Mediterranean with its navy, but in all other fields of combat Arabia excelled. The UAK was simultaneously able to keep its enemies at bay abroad in conjunction with the Russians, while simultaneously keeping the Saudis engaged to the south. In 2027-2028, Arabia would collapse back into Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, although the four countries would continue to fight against Saudi Arabia and Egypt even after the collapse of the former state engaged in warfare on their behalf.
==NATO–UN Invasion of Israel==
:See: Tel Aviv Campaign, Manhattan Campaign, UN–Turkish Invasion of Haifa & Israel–UN relations
===2026/27-2027/28===
====NATO Invasion of Israel====
It wasn’t long after the fall of Red China that the nations of Eastern Asia were able to mount a united offensive against the B13. By September 6th the East Asian Outbreak was slowed and pacified, with a few stragglers here and there in remote regions. Europe, although still struggling against the shadows of North America and England, was able to keep the infestation contained in the West Balkans of Southeastern Europe, and after the fall of the extremist governments in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon (on opposing sides of the ongoing War); Israel, Jordan, Iraq and Iran are able to mount a successful offensive against the infection in the Palestinian and Anbar regions of the Middle-East. A rampant vector crisis in Riyadh had spread to outlying regions by this time, however, and Saudi military elements were forced to focus attention inward.
Meanwhile, the mainland United States was still struggling against the rampant hordes. While Memphis, Chicago and San Francisco held steadfast, the US had not experienced a moment’s reprieve long enough to formulate a unified offense strategy. The NATO Secretary-General, George W. Bush, is discovered to be working secretly with English Chancellor Pharaoh who had effectively taken control of Europe. Now, the final show down was imminent, as Belgian and NATO forces prepare to intervene militarily in Israel – and choke what they claim to be the last lifeline being fed into the economically-implosive regime in England.
Or so they would have us believe.
During the infestation and before an effective quarantine procedure could take place, the rogue Netanyahu government in Jerusalem is forced to vacate, and it is during this time that a Centrist-Muslim coalition government is erected and democracy and equality is reclaimed between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs for the first time in nearly a century. Despite this, NATO – primarily backed by Belgium and the Spanish-led MLF-II (Multinational Land Force-II), and Nordic EU battle-groups, and spearheaded by the Norwegian "FSK" - Forsvarets Spesialkommando - and Danish "Hunter Corps" – launches an attempted occupation of Haifa, intent on claiming Israel regardless of who or what was in power, with Turkey temporarily aligning themselves with their more recent foes against a far older one.
Although the West would initially be steadfast and united in response to the 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel - which would leave more than 1,400 dead Israelis - the Israeli response in October would draw condemnation from EU and Norwegian officials. France, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark and Turkey would begin plans for regime change in Israel when Netanyahu's "Unity" Government begins stoking sectarian tension within and between Israelis, further exposing the Israeli State to increasing instability and thus, the wider region. With Norway, Belgium, Turkey and Spain spearheading a lot of the condemnation of Israel's actions at home and in Gaza, a "Coalition of Necessity" would begin to form in late-2027 with Turkish-EU aid flotillas becoming a regularity by 2028. Several months later, the Turks, Norway and EU in conjunction with a 113-country Arab-ASEAN-Commonwealth coalition would launch an armed intervention into Israel.
In an unexpected reentry into WW3, U.S. MAW forces – spearheaded by RECON – come to the defense of Israel against the Belgian–Danish 113-nation UN invasion force. The Russians also commit a sizeable assist, and the NATO intervention is repulsed. In the process, however, Russian forces destroy several U.S. naval assets, including a submarine – while pro-Russian Israelis seize and occupy a U.S. Ford-class supercarrier. Backed by Russia, and reinvigorated with the possession of such a powerful military asset, the Russian-controlled Israeli military pledges to assist Russia and England in a revenge attack upon Europe and the United States of America, while the moderate Israeli government, forced into exile in Tel Aviv, pledges and reaffirms its commitment to the United States, and a Civil War between the pro-Russian and pro-American factions within Israel erupts across southern and western Israel.
====Arab–Israeli invasion of Turkey====
Following the 2027 attacks on Turkey and subsequent Turkish invasions of Syria and Lebanon, the Arab League with its massive land force and navy begins planning for a full-scale invasion of Turkey. After a meeting of monarchs and heads of state from Egypt, the UAE, Algeria, Morocco, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Libya, Bahrain and Israel, a coalition of Arab and Israeli armies is formed and soon after launch attacks on Adana and Antalya in Southwestern Turkey. The Arab–Israeli naval force quickly overpowers the navy of Turkey, although a concurrent Arab–Israeli invasion of Cyprus inflames tension with the European Union and Greece as well, which send aid and reinforcements to the Turks. In a conflict that would last roughly a month, the Arabs and Israelis raze the southern coastline of Turkey and the island of Cyprus, in a confrontation that claims the lives of over 70,000. Roughly 40,000 Arabs and 7,000 Israelis would also perish.
NATO forces would lose over 50,000 as soldiers from Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Romania and Croatia convened toward the cities under attack from the Arabs and Israelis. Even after the invaders pulled back and ceased their operations, soldiers from over half a dozen countries would continue fighting in Southern Turkey for several months after the fact. A frozen conflict zone began to emerge along Turkey's southwestern coastline and on the island of Cyprus. The new Arab and Israeli governments that would take over from their preceding theocratic regimes would enact a strict sanctioning and censorship of the rogue Arab forces that would continue to launch attacks in the two cities, heavily entrenched with support from China in the surrounding hinterlands. After several decades, the paramilitary forces officially surrender, although sporadic attacks would continue from the remaining few hundred fighters for another few decades later.
====English Invasion of New York City====
Beginning in mid-September, bombings in Queens, Newark and the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Sunset Park and 8th Avenue by the independent Jihadists in control of the supercarrier preamble a subsequent invasion by England of the Eastern Seaboard of Manhattan, New York. Isolated skirmishes unfold in Jersey City and parts of Newark and its outskirts in late September, November, and throughout the Summer of the following year, respectively. The first tally on the mission parameters is the occupation and lockdown of the financial district, particularly Wall St. The invasion is precipitated by precision missile strikes against the MMB, Empire State Building (to disrupt nationwide broadcasting), 432 Park Ave. (used as partial residence for U.S. infantrymen), 70 Pine St., the Woolworth Building, the Tishman-Speyer Building, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grand Central, NYC Transit, One Liberty Plaza, Ft. Hamilton, NYPD, and the Statue of Liberty over the course of roughly 15 minutes (NYPD, Ft. Hamilton, the Statue of Liberty, 432 Park Ave., MMB and the Empire State Building are all destroyed simultaneously). In addition to these preliminary strikes, residential buildings suspect of housing Middle American and US infantry in preparation for the invasion of the United States and England respectively – 1717 Broadway, Liberty Tower, Barclay Tower, Biltmore Tower, CitySpire Center, The Corinthian, The Eldorado, The Epic, Madison Green, Metropolitan Tower, Battery Park’s Millennium Point and Millennium Tower – are destroyed. Although the 200,000-strong mobilization was – tactfully – spread out primarily in as many low-lying residential structures as possible, the leveling of New York’s residential skyscrapers still took out a rather large chunk of the total invasion force; 57,000 soldiers and over 100,000 civilians are killed.
===Manhattan Campaign===
(October 2028–July 2029) – English forces manage to maintain a foothold in the Upper East Side throughout the entirety of the campaign. Within a month, however, U.S. forces had managed to secure the United Nations building and surrounding neighborhoods of English forces. The very next month, U.S. and RECON forces launch a joint operation to reclaim the supercarrier from the English and jihadists. They do so successfully, immediately turning the vessel on the other twenty-odd vessels in New Jersey waters, pounding them throughout January and February. By March English ground forces are surrounded, but manage to hold out for another three months before surrendering (although the Verdean-controlled dreadnought battlecruiser returns briefly in April to attempt a rescue).
Throughout the rest of June, English deserters and guerrillas commit blitzkrieg-style attacks on U.S. forces patrolling the New Jersey–New York border and throughout Jersey City. By early July the skirmishers have been pushed out of Jersey City and into Newark and surrounding neighborhoods, and within a week the remaining 100-odd belligerents have all either been captured or killed.
==Brazilian–UN Invasion of the United States==
:See: Brazilian–UN Invasion of Eastern US, Assault on Boston, Dutch–Norwegian occupation of Boston, Brazilian–UN occupation of Florida, Siege of Ft. Lauderdale, Occupation of Miami, & Brazilian–UN occupation of New England (June – December 2029)
===Iraqi–Moroccan invasion of Spain===
August – On July 30th the Arab League and straggling Union State forces utilize the full extent of their machine armies under cover of heavy Russian air and auxiliary support to launch an invasion of Central Europe and an occupation of Croatia, the Balkans and parts of North Africa respectively. The English are pushed back by NATO forces by mid-May - with France seizing on the infighting to join in on the battering, and the Balkan occupation is brought to an invasion followed by Poland and the Czech Republic in August and September respectively. In late August, a Hungarian-Russian assault force invades the Czech Republic, Croatia, Austria, the rest of Slovakia and parts of Poland, with the sole objective to work as much destruction and devastation in as little time as possible. With the Pact maintaining a firm stranglehold on Europe via the Balkans, Hungary and England, as well as parts of Northern France and Luxembourg after subsequent Russian-Livonian Invasions and attacks, and the conflict between the EU Benelux Battlegroup and COSECTOR thus reduced down from full-scale war to scattered, erratic skirmishes that consisted of mostly individual, isolated events… yet despite the French Army and Walloon paramilitary successfully holding the English-backed pro-Dutch Flemish insurgents - low-level proxy-conflict would continue between France and the remnants of English-Nordic secessionists, even for centuries after the virtual extinction of the countries of both England and Belgium.
Germany is not so lucky, with pro-Azeri Nordic militant insurgency persisting in the German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, with most of the fighting centered on the Siege of Cologne. Hesse is also briefly annexed by the Scandinavians, but is quickly retaken days later because of the small size of the occupation force. Either way, due to the Heer's stretched-thin multiple-front defense, the Secessionists, Dutch and Norwegians are able to mount a protracted offensive. Meanwhile, North Croatia along with Bosnia and Slovenia are able to hold off Serb assets and secessionists in the east, while North Macedonia wrenches free of جرثش control; and Greece and Bulgaria are able to defeat an Azeri-backed Russian attempt to push into their territory.
As early as 2023, Spain and Morocco had begun feuding over Ceuta. These tensions escalated later that year, when Spain refuses to recognize Arabic as an official language in the city, and continued to escalate throughout 2024 and 2025. In 2027, riots broke out and fighting between Christians and Muslims. After roughly 90 people die in a riot in 2028, most of them Muslim, Morocco would intervene. Moroccan forces backed by the Iraqi Armed Forces, who had begun massing troops near the border over the course of the previous year, crossed the southern Ceuta-Morocco border to reestablish order. Riot police backed by the Moroccan and Iraqi military would violently suppress the riots, killing over 200 and injuring more than 7,000 others. Spain would itself collapse into disorder and crises during these years, as the government experienced a fierce tug-o-war between partisan factions, unionists and separatist regionalists that would reverberate throughout Spanish society for years. The monarchy is rejected in many corners of Spain, but maintains its rule over other parts of the country. The breakup of Spain is internationally unrecognized, although sporadic skirmishes do unfold between the various unrecognized polities. Later during the conflict, Portugal would become involved on the side of the secessionists, its government overthrown and hijacked by Moroccan imperialists. In total, roughly 10,000 would die on all sides.
However, despite the collapse of the Spanish Monarchy and Moscow, the strong core pillar of EU Resistance to the COSECTOR Assault on Europe emanating from Edinburgh and Stockholm, and the firm containment of the English insurgency on the southern peninsula of Great Britain - the Iberian Peninsula was cracking under the weight of the Neo-Imperialism engulfing the entire western coast of the landmass - Morocco had instigated a coup in Portugal several years ago by backing radical Monarchists in Lisbon which overthrew the government by instigating the military into an armed conflict against itself. And now, pro-Moroccan Portugal had not only annexed the Spanish state of Galicia, but also successfully backed the secession of the autonomous communities of the Basque Countries (including Navarre and a defeated attempt in Southwestern France), La Rioja, Cantabria, Asturias, Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Isles - the latter of the three would ironically unite against the Moroccan-backed insurgents to defeat them in the Battle of Aragon in September 2029, and would thereafter aid the newly-formed rump state of Andalusia-Castillo in its victory against Portugal in the Extremadura War of October 2029. In the backdrop of all of these conflicts the Brazilian-Arab MAWs prepared for a military operation the likes of which had never been seen before.
September – Over the span of roughly 46 hours between the end of August and beginning of September, realizing the Livonian and Russian governments were in chaos, RECON deploys Shield and Sword Agents on a plainclothes sting operation to take out the rogue Hungarian Commander that had eluded them so many times before – Dragomir Radu. He is located in Orșova, attempting to escape to Livonia through the Black Sea and Ukraine. Although most of the operation unfolds in the Retezat National Park, the final 13 hours of the operation involve a manhunt, which escalates in the last six hours into a chase and gunbattle at the Iron Gates. Before capturing Radu, the RECONS learned that he intended to kill himself to prevent an interrogation leading to the revelation of his manipulation of NATO and thwarting of his Europe designs. However, right as he is captured, he reveals that his plans have already been set in motion by his cohorts Lord Pharaoh and the late dictator of Russia, as well as Brazilian and Serb military brass and the Trumps – through pro-Pincers within the Hague – to blackmail the EU into a NATO-COSECTOR joint-invasion of the United States of America.
October – Between August and September 2029, NATO and COSECTOR, while still officially enemies, are appealed into a coalition spearheaded by Brazil, by the Communist-friendly North Americans under the prospect of replacing the United Nations with a “Bolshevik World State” that would end World War III and unite the planet and all of its nations under one flag. The North Americans claim, at the behest of Chinese Communist and Imperialist officials (including Fang) that sympathized with the Americas and the Russians, that the United States – the foremost power on the United Nations Security Council, must be coerced to capitulate to the new continental nation of North America. After Japan steps down from a brief tenure on the Council, the United States, France and Britain – as the Security Council Triumvirate – are effectively labeled the ‘singular mutual threat’ to both the East (Russia and Asia) and the West (NATO) and that the two rival civilizations must unite to ‘end the scourge of patriotism’ once and for all. On October 15th, 2029; the rogue Spanish militants fighting for Chile, followed by the entire NATO bloc of the England-led Atlantic Alliance (excluding France, Germany and Italy), Denmark’s Greenland taskforce and spearheaded by the Pharaoh Government (each faction intent on toppling the United States before the other), launch the most devastating attack in military history upon the United States of America. Like rain, the MAWS fell from the sky and attacked locations all along America’s Eastern Seaboard. At 7:43 AM Fort Lauderdale, Florida was attacked by a staggering 22 Egyptian-, Saudi-, Iraqi-, Brazilian-, Chinese-, North Korean- and even EU-aligned MAWS. IF forces deployed in an effort to stymie the assault, but since most of their MAWS had been destroyed during the European Conflict they had to – terrifyingly – resort to old-fashion military tactics to combat the mechanized monsters.
At 4:14 and 7:52 AM on October 16th, 14 Norwegian, Danish, Egyptian, Iraqi, Saudi and Brazilian MAWS deploy into Boston, Massachusetts and Virginia Beach in the Old Dominion supported by an invasion force of over 2 million spearheaded by Brazil, and 1 of the remaining 2 of Brazil's specialized ultra-heavy "Jaguar de Ferro" units accompany them. The French Navy – a powerhouse of a global naval power – almost single-handedly defeats the Brazilian–Arab Fleet whom they outmatch with firepower and technology. The French Air Force also contributes heavily, possessing an air fleet of nearly 1,000 themselves. On the ground, however, with only a few remaining MAWS of their own to lend support to the ground forces, the United States – abandoned by the Pentagon, and unable to call for support from NATO – fights an uphill battle throughout August and into September. RECON does all they can, but eventually the hostiles – backed by MAWS – manage to push the 500,000-strong force beyond the Appalachian Mountains. It is here that the American, French, British and Korean joint-force makes its final stand against the invaders.
With 35 nations (23 defending, and 12 attacking) and over 5 million people from those and other countries directly involved in airborne, naval or person-to-person combat during the Battle of Ft. Lauderdale and the NATO Occupation of Florida (October 2029 to January 2031), the aforementioned sites, operations and theatres of warfare (henceforth known as the North American and Eastern American Theatres of World War III) become the second-largest in the history of warfare, with the Siege of Beijing and the Asian Theatres being the largest (with over 20 million people directly involved), although only a handful of nations are involved.
==Endgame==
:See: Russian–English Attack on France, Polish–Nordic Liberation of Hungary and the V3, Second Battle of Berlin, Eastern US Front, & Dragon’s Mouth Siege (November – December 2029)
September – November 2nd, 2029; RECON forces make a stand in the city of Knoxville and the surrounding municipalities of Forge, Newark, Mountain City and Sevier City – the Gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Appalachian Mountains. It is here the Allies draw their line in the sand against the enemy forces, and having taken down 2 of the total 12-strong Egyptian–Azeri MAW units to deploy along the Eastern Seaboard. With 6 MAWS in Knoxville, 3 in Forge, 2 in Sevier City, 1 in Newark a total of 2 MAWS make it to Mountain City – the last of the cities group in proximity to the Park. Coincidentally, this happened to be the region with the highest concentration of RECON forces. Within just a few hours RECON manages to eliminate the MAWS, but then just as they are about to secure the area – UN forces show up with Anti-MAW Tanks and begin eliminating the MAWS. At first the UN helps RECON, but then it becomes apparent they were merely representing the interests of the Shadow Hub. The SH and UN forces had been working hand-in-hand the entire time to execute a strategy that would end with them as the victors of the conflict, by simply playing the warring factions against one another – and then striking when they were at their weakest. In the region that eventually becomes known as “Dragon’s Mouth”, a Final Stand occurs in which the straggling and vastly-outnumbered 350,000-strong US forces and 200-strong RECONs take their stand against a multi-million-strong North American and Japanese invasion force spearheaded by more than 100 Anti-MAWs… directed against primarily infantry and light armor. It goes down in history as one of the most one-sided fights in military history, surpassed only by the Battle of Thermopylae during the Greco-Persian Wars of BCE. Although the Allies lose the battle, and the UN autocracy regains control of the United States for the first time in almost a decade (only to lose again a decade later, and again decades later in the Creed Wars).
On September 10th English and Hungarian forces launch a protracted campaign against Berlin – which alongside Barcelona, Edinburgh, Geneva, Madrid, Ottawa, Paris, Stockholm and Zagreb was one of the last 9 governments in open opposition to the English and the rogue Russian forces fighting for Moscow long after the fall of Zharkov, and the only one of those who could make a difference in the fight – in what came to be called the Second Battle of Berlin. Although it is far bloodier than its WWII counterpart, the Berliners repulse and weaken the invaders through attrition, much better equipped and coordinated than the Germany under the shadow of the Nazis 9 decades earlier. By October 3rd the Invasion of Berlin has been repulsed with assistance from Sweden, Canada and the recently-liberated Polish and Danish military.
October – In late October, supported by Denmark and (primarily) Sweden, the U.K. leads the invasion of England. Simultaneously, most of the Euro-bloc military braced against the Egyptians, Azeris and the English, repulsing the militants from France and Germany by early October. The last of the pro-English Turkic and Arab naval forces are surrounded and, with assistance from one final interrogation of Luca and Kravychko, and the warfare expertise of the last soldier of RECON Unit-7, the Europeans board and informally occupy the USS Montana and HMS Prince of Wales in the Strait of Dover between France and Britain, in the final battle of the Third Global Conflict – the Siege of Calais. The Turkic dreadnought, formerly El Verde's, is a powerful and terrifying “wall of fire and metal”, pulverizing the beachhead and light armor with its massive guns, blowing a U.S. Command Walker straight out of the sky like paper Mache, and resisting some of the most coordinated and forceful air strikes.
In time, the Allies come to the conclusion that they must conduct an all-out assault on the dreadnought and its escorts, spearheaded by a Ford-class assault supercarrier jury-rigged into a heavy missile supercruiser specifically to defend its critically-important air force payloads during the pivotal Berlin Blitz a month earlier. Realizing the likelihood that the British and French-backed RECON forces could triumph over the Turkic-Arab Naval group, and that because of the recent turn of events they likely already knew of the Colombian government's infiltration of the U.S., collaboration with the English and Russians indicative therein, and their role in the ascendancy of Eurasian ultranationalists, Turkish forces turn against European forces at the last minute, losing the support and control they had over some of the Italian and Nordic forces. In an attempt to scramble as many fighters as possible to back up the French; Canada, Britain and the rest of the entirety of the Commonwealth of Nations quickly threaten full-scale Invasion of Turkey. Backed into a corner and isolated, Turkey and the ultranationalist war states of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Egypt had inadvertently united the world against them, and to top that off, they end up losing control of their naval assets. Losing the battleship to the supercarrier assault, Egypt and Azerbaijan-Bukhara (England never being recognized as a legitimate state to surrender in the first place is obviously excluded, along with Russia which by this point has collapsed into several semi-autonomous successor-states and lost their Far Eastern territory) formally surrender and WWIII ends.
==Fallout & Aftermath==
The Fallout and Aftermath of WWIII sees victory for the Allies: led by the UK, France and Japan against Azerbaijan-Bukhara, the Arabs, Russians and most of Latin America fighting on a third front. The United States and the Canadian countries are not so lucky, seeing how despite the fact that the Russians, Azeris, Arabs, and their mole-state in the Middle-East, Turkey, had been beaten after being cornered in the strait of Dover – the Latin Union, backed by Japan and the Co-Sector, had effectively annexed Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Mexico, California, Nevada and the Rust Belt States of America (Excluding Indiana and Illinois) while North America would annex the rest of Canada in time and California would fight for its independence in 2041-2047. 
 
The Treaty of Halifax is signed under Terms of Surrender by the Russian, Arab, Azerbaijani and Israeli Governments, English junta and former-President Luca, Commander Nikita Kravychko, the ultra-nationalist governments of Peru and Venezuela, the English Chancellor, 16 senior Venezuelan, Chilean, Russian, Livonian, Tajik, Kyrgyz and Cuban officials, Wyomingite Midwestern Gen. Secretary Liz Cheney, former-President John Kerry, former-Vice President Hillary Clinton, Lord Christian Pharaoh of Edinburgh, Fang Kaizeng's military brass and 368 other senior military and government officials from Latin America, the Middle-East and Cuba. The only five nations exempt from the repercussions of aiding CoSector are; Israel, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Bolivia, North America and Turkey after a short and brutal civil war by the NATO-backed opposition against the Erdogan regime – and, ironically, only because they maintained their commitment to defeat Turkey and Lord Pharaoh. 
 
All territories under the unrecognized State of North America are transferred to U.S. jurisdiction, but the damage is done. The Republic of Texas, New England, large swathes of the Rust Belt and across the southwest become a frozen conflict zones, California a few years later annexing Washington, Oregon, Alaska, British Columbia and parts of Baja and the Yukon over the course of roughly a decade. And while the RT remains surrounded on all sides by U.S. Commonwealths, the united “autonomous regions” formerly comprising the United States of America, Mexico and Cuba would never be as unified and coherent a political entity as they once were. Concurrently, the European Union is federalized into a single government with its capital in Brussels and Belgium is divided between France and United Germania – the two countries becoming symbols of diametrically opposing political ideologies – with France incorporating into the UE superstate as its preeminent “cultural state”, and the Germanic Union opting out, still wary of France, Spain and Italy after their manipulation by Russia and Latin American governments in the 1990’s and 2000’s – choosing instead to focus on building up its autonomy and sway within United Europe. Austria and Germany (after the latter is infiltrated by pro-Chilean Prussian nationalists) are federalized under a Pan-Germanic government coalition centered in Rotterdam, Holland. Due to its proximity to Brussels, along with France’s devolved sovereignty and autonomy within the European state, the Netherlands and Slavic peoples would become the more well-off of Europeans for the first half of the 21st Century (although the former is eventually threatened by climate change). North Africa, after maintaining its commitment to the Allies of WW3 by overthrowing the English-backed military junta, along with Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Oman, Yemen, Mauritania, and Egypt, all commit themselves to dependency status of the new United Arab Federation (UAF). 
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