Foreign Peacekeepers in the New American Wasteland

The apparent collapse of law and order in the Continental United States of America may have been a sudden and brutal affair for those living there, but for the rest of the international community witnessing, it was a lengthy, downward spiral of madness and sobering realization. If such extremism and ecological collapse could fragment the world’s strongest military and economic power, it could happen virtually anywhere else in the world. Once the United States federal government publicly withdrew its administrative and military power from the Western United States, and consolidated itself in the Safe Zone, multiple invested allies took action to mitigate the conflict to come.

## Overview

As the United States withdrew from its Western territories in North America, it suffered a brutal hemorrhaging of manpower and military resources to commit to anti-terrorism campaigns. One of the most apparent acts of unspoken desperation was the redeployment of entire divisions of the United States military from foreign bases in Europe and Asia. Vital NATO assets, such as the US Army First Infantry Division, were completely pulled from their postings in Europe, to combat insurgencies in the Midwestern United States. Likewise, elements of the US Navy and Marine Corps were redeployed from Japan, to bolster operations on the West Coast, before the apparent change of power among the Western Territories. All the while, the United States had not publicly declared to the world any indication of losing power or authority. However, once elements of the violence began to play out on the global stage, such as refugees fleeing on the last commercial flights out of the US, the rest of the world took action.

In March of 2032, The United Nations General Assembly was called for an emergency session, at the New York City Headquarters. As a member of the Security Council, the United States representative was harsh, but strained in their attempts to downplay the violence and disorder. Despite their best efforts, the mounting evidence was too much to ignore. The US Dollar was massively devalued, rendering it an unreliable global reserve currency. The loss of the West Coast ports had massively disrupted global trade, Texan oil exchanges had upset the global oil supply. The staggering amount of civil and ecological collapse had left unprecedented numbers of Americans dead, leaving a wake of apparent genocide, committed by extremist fundamentalist groups. And despite the shocking levels of death and destruction, the most alarming update came with the apparent loss of control of nuclear weapons silos and mobile submarines. An upset to the world status quo of this magnitude hadn’t been seen since the collapse of the Soviet Union, forty years prior.

The Security council convened, and the resulting vote had left next steps in a frustrating stalemate. The United States, in its own pride, had voted “No” on any international involvement in its own affairs, apparently rejecting help being offered by allies. Unsurprisingly, a “No” vote was also offered by the Russian Federation. The new regime was still in a state of recovery, after their disastrous war in Europe, and it was speculated that Russia was looking for any advantage to undermine their longest-running rival. At the same time, countering both “No” votes, two “Yes” votes for intervention were presented by the United Kingdom and France, two of the United States’ oldest allies, who hoped that offering their support would bolster relations and set precedent for the Western Rule of Law. Surprisingly, the People’s Republic of China had abstained from voting, more out of pragmatism, than any other reason. With the US economy fragmented, the biggest fuel source to China’s blast-furnace economy had been snuffed, and multiple looming crises were bearing to impact the PRC’s domestic affairs. China had neither the time, money, or inclination, to bog itself down in a foreign intervention.

With the Security Council at an impasse, the decision was delegated to the General Assembly, who encouraged stop-gap measures to provide immediate aid and peacekeeping forces to the Continental United States. As such, it was left to the two immediate neighbors of the United States to open avenues into the US for ensuing aid relief: Canada and Mexico. Canada, encouraged by both Britain and France, had already staged defense forces along its Southern border, and had slowly been overwhelmed by a bleeding surge of refugees into every port of entry, as well as into the Canadian wilderness. The rising threat of extremist groups had forced Canada to start their own local operations within their provinces, and the government knew they had to be swift and brutal, to stamp that threat out, before it overwhelmed them.

Mexico, on the other hand, had seemingly relished the public perception of Mexican Border Guard detaining illegal American immigrants at the US Border, and deporting refugees back into Texas and Arizona, after generations of the same treatment towards Latin Americans, by the United States. The obstacles the United States had raised along the border, in its own xenophobia, now hampered citizens from getting out, just as well as they stopped refugees from getting in, previously. Even then, Mexico was barely handling its own border crisis, while also juggling the Cartels plaguing its territory. Both nations were aware that intervention, on their part, was only a matter of time.

The Pacific Northwest, Northern Midwest, and Southwest were all the greatest examples of American society that had collapsed into anarchy, in the vacuum left behind by the United States. Fledgling Corporate administrations were mixed in their success to curb the lawlessness, only really prioritizing their own immediate affairs. New States had some better success, but not necessarily to the benefit of the United States. United California and the Republic of Texas, both rising to dominance in the Southwest, had left a potential hotbed of resource wars on the table, and the resurgent Indigenous state of Sioux Nation had gained popularity in the collapsed Dakotas and Western Minnesota, leaving an uncomfortable precedent for the United States to address.

### Opening Operations

The stage was set for both Canada and Mexico to mount offensive operations into these war zones, and spearhead entry points for the international community to provide aid into the American interior. The United States government was vocal in its own protests, as opening operations played out, despite already abandoning the territories. However, little could be done to stop intervention forces from moving into the regions. It was also speculated that any remaining civilian populations would welcome any power that was able to return law and order to those impacted by the lawlessness.

The first nation to act was Mexico, already poised to retaliate against extremists on their borders, as well as to establish a buffer zone between themselves and other antagonizing parties. The former states of Arizona and New Mexico had already been largely abandoned by populations, due to the increasing temperatures rendering most of the regions uninhabitable, outside of the major cities with resources. Even then, Separatist Dominion factions had taken power in these cities, like many of the other movements in the American South.

### Operación: Guadalupe

Mexico’s military operation, dubbed *Operación: Guadalupe*, was spearheaded by elements of the Mexican Air Force and Naval Infantry, to strike extremist militia occupiers with the Sonoran Tabernacle in Southern Arizona, with reinforcements from the Mexican Army to provide peacekeeping and policing operations, while a transitional civilian government could be installed. Once Arizona was pacified, Mexico would shift its posture towards New Mexico, targeting the neighboring extremist regime: The Church of the Crossroads. Once the region was pacified, international peacekeepers would be able to funnel aid relief and other NGOs into the states. During the planning stages, it was made apparent that the new government of California had also achieved a level of stability, allowing vital trade and aid relief into the nation’s major West Coast ports. California’s own reorganized military forces would also be able to provide limited support in Arizona, who had involved parties interested in joining the new republic. With the American Southwest in disarray, the Mexican government, along with support from the newly-formed United California Republics, formed a Provisional Army Division, to mobilize into the lawless desert wasteland, where any stable authority would be welcomed by the remaining civilian populace.

With most of Arizona abandoned, the first strike of Operación: Guadalupe would take place in Tucson, AZ. On the morning of May 7th, Mexican Air Force PC-7 attack planes and F-5E fighter jets conducted airstrikes on identified military targets in the outlying city limits of Tucson, held by the Sonoran Tabernacle. After initial strikes, 2nd Marine Battalion forces from Baja stormed into Tucson via armored convoy, and began door-to-door urban operations. The Mexican Naval Infantry, conditioned after decades of urban and rural conflict against the Cartels in the Mexican Drug War, proved to be a highly capable military force the irregular militias were unprepared for. Fighting lasted for six days, before the remains of the Sonoran militias fled or surrendered. The remaining fundies were arrested by the 3rd Military Police Brigade, and transferred to detention centers in Tijuana, to await further prosecution. International press compared the sudden and thorough conflict to the US invasion of Iraq, and the Battle of Baghdad, nineteen years prior. The local ethnic Latinx populations, largely Catholic and further marginalized by the Protestant extremists, welcomed their Mexican liberators. An interim city council was formed to allow for an easier transition to Mexican administration.

With Tucson secured ahead of schedule, Mexican forces directed their operations towards Phoenix, the capital of the Sonoran Tabernacle. With the rising climate conditions, populations had abandoned all but the largest city zones, leaving little in the way of resistance on the road to Phoenix. Mexican Army Special Forces were deployed at night to perform snatch-and-grab operations on known VIPs within Sonoran Tabernacle’s leadership. Over the course of three weeks, Phoenix was surrounded by Mexican military forces, and Sonoran Tabernacle’s command and control structure was thrown into disarray. The few that attempted to flee the city and avoid Mexican capture were apprehended by new players in the Southwest conflict: Navajo Nation. With no remaining command or resources, the remnants of Sonoran Tabernacle’s paramilitary forces laid down their arms. Phoenix was transferred over to Mexican Administration, and the territory of Southern Arizona was incorporated into the United Mexican States. The remainder of Arizona, consisting of Navajo Nation and the territory of Arixo, were admitted as sovereign republics into United California.

#### Liberation of Albuquerque

With Mexican Arizona secured, Mexico’s military forces shifted to the former US state of New Mexico, where local Latinx and Indigenous militias had been engaged with extremists from the Church of the Crossroads, another Christo-Fascist Dominion movement. With assistance from local militias, Mexican Army Special Forces are able to gather adequate intelligence on where to call air strikes, to soften enemy defenses. The 1st Armored Brigade converged on Albuquerque, and Mexican Army forces engaged with Crossroads defenders. Fighting on the Crossroads’ part was more cohesive than their counterparts in Sonoran Tabernacle, and fighting lasted for three weeks, before fundies withdrew North to Santa Fe, their last holdout in New Mexico. Their surviving numbers were further harassed by the Diné Naabaahii, Navajo Nation’s independent military force, now better-supplied with UCR weapons and equipment. While Albuquerque was now free of Dominionists, the Mexican Army shifted its local posture to a policing force, to root out Cartel holdouts.

#### Battle of Santa Fe

Before Mexican or Navajo forces could begin to probe Crossroads’ defenses around Santa Fe’s city limits, the fundamentalists were taken by surprise by the local citizenry who rose up against them, in an act of open revolt against the harsh religious government. Mexican regular forces held at the city limits, to avoid the risk of mounting civilian casualties in the crossfire. Special Forces groups were deployed to establish contact with Santa Fe freedom fighters, to gather intelligence on enemy troop strength and assist with directing air support, from newly-arrived United California Marine Corps air units. AH-1Z Viper gunships provided fire support for the militias, and further strained fundy operations in the city. Rather than surrender, Crossroads militias attempted to egress from Santa Fe, and fled either North or East, to Corporate Colorado or the Republic of Texas. Militias were gunned down at the Colorado border by Avalanche PMCs, before they could attempt to cross at Centennial border checkpoints. With fundies attempting to escape pursuing Mexican forces, they were sandwiched between both converging Mexican and Texan armies, triggering another conflict in the region.

#### Texan Partition War

In the backdrop of the Mexican advance into the Former United States, the Republic of Texas had hastily committed their own military operation into Eastern New Mexico, to secure the Northern border region along Colorado, as well as to secure the Permian Oil Basin, along the Texas/New Mexico Border. Both forces advancing into New Mexico, Texan Army and Mexican Army, opened fire on each other, in the midst of separate engagements with holdout militias of the Church of the Crossroads. The conflict escalated into a 48-hour skirmish between peer military forces, mounting casualties on either side. Before the conflict could worsen, a cease-fire was called by Centennial third-party mediators, who offered the chance for both the United Mexican States and Republic of Texas to settle border disputes. The Denver Accords was signed over a 12-day summit, and New Mexico was adequately split by both parties. With Nuevo Mexico secured, Mexican forces began the longer effort of policing duties, to root out the Cartels still active in the region.

International peacekeepers were able to move in from Mexican Gulf ports in Altamira and Veracruz, and the Pacific port of Ensenada.

### Operation: Winged Eagle

Following the stellar performance of Mexico in the Southwest, Canada prepared its own military operation, designated Operation: Winged Eagle. Unlike Mexico’s campaign, Operation: Winged Eagle’s mission parameters were more keyed towards returning the region back to a state of law and order, and reviving the United States administration. The Allied Expeditionary Force, composed of Canadian, UK, and French military units, were to deploy into the region now known as Ungoverned America, alongside token US Army Special Forces units. Former Montana and North Dakota had little in the way of administrative parties still standing, by either Dominion, Corporate, or otherwise. Local resistance was comparatively light, from token raider groups on established highways, and renegade Army National Guard militias.

#### Survey of Harlem, Montana

One of the closest small cities just over the border from Canada, Harlem was reconnoitered by a combined special force of Canadian JTF2, British SRR, and French CPA 10. A small underdeveloped township, the pre-collapse population barely exceeded 800 people. The Scouting force would discover that the entire town had been abandoned, with no trace of any antagonist forces. It was assumed that the town, as well as others like it, were abandoned due to a lack of sustainable resources. With the town “secured”, an expeditionary convoy of Canadian Army and French Foreign Legion moved into the town, and began constructing aid centers for potential refugees to seek out. As time progressed, the developing situation only painted a bleaker picture.

All of the immediate outlying towns around Harlem, including Chinook, Havre, Dodson, Malta, Saco, and Big Sandy, had all been either abandoned, or bore evidence of populations long-since perished. Allied survey groups pointed to evidence of the compromised water table, containing traces of heavy metals and toxic bacteria. In Harlem’s case, the water supply had been tainted by cholera, leading to death in the town and forcing the remainder of the population to either perish or move on. To where, was still a mystery. The remnant corporate government in Butte was reluctant to cooperate in any meaningful capacity, only citing difficulties in maintaining order in the region.

Combat in the state thus far had only been minor skirmishes with remnant security forces, namely renegade National Guard units-turned warbands, roving highway gangs, and remnant Montana Highway Patrol convoys. These groups had only managed to repel Dominionist forces further South, controlling the roads and establishing checkpoints for toll collections. These units had no further means of resupply, and were quick to exhaust their dwindling ammunition, before retreating as well. The situation of resource scarcity only continued to paint a darker and darker image of the conditions in regions where society totally collapsed.

#### Five Mile

While on a long-range scouting patrol, a reconnaissance platoon of the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment, French Foreign Legion, had stumbled upon an isolated compound, in the remote wilderness of the Montana/North Dakota border. Apparently constructed around an abandoned wildland firefighter station, a sizable population of civilians had been discovered making their homes here. An English-speaking Irish legionnaire would learn from one of the community defenders that they declared themselves an “Independent Commune”, and only wished to be left alone and unharmed from regional Dominionist and warlord groups.

While reluctant, the legionnaires were able to get a rough census from the community. The majority of them had been communities of like-minded survivalists and their families, who had come upon their new home while escaping violence from both Montana and North Dakota, years prior. Now, their main concerns only involved day-to-day living, in conditions similar to the era of the pre-Industrial American Frontier. The community had developed into a thriving self-reliant commune, by the name of Five Mile. Their only contact with other communities had been with nearby Indigenous Reservations in Montana, over radio. Their only news had been of rising tensions with the New Sioux Nation, and had no idea that foreign intervention forces had moved into the Former United States.

The Legion platoon commander offered to extend aid to the community via outreach programs, which were swiftly rejected. Despite the temptation of modern amenities, the community council preferred that no further attention be drawn to themselves, lest they risk discovery and retaliation from a rival group. They did, however, offer their best estimate of where the local fundamentalist groups were located. And with that, the Legion recon platoon withdrew from the commune, and completed the remainder of their patrol. This discovery would lead to the realization of  adapted living dynamics in the New American Wasteland. The most popular of which being the InCom model.

Once Forward Operating Bases and patrol routes were established by allied forces, a census was conducted on the people and condition of the region. It was discovered that the territory had become severely depopulated, with entire towns and makeshift communities abandoned, or perished from either violence or rampant disease. The situation in Ungoverned America was far bleaker than anticipated, and reports to the international press called for a hastier deployment of emergency aid relief. With their presence known, even former US military commanders turned-warlords offered to provide their forces as local advisory peacekeepers, and disclose the locations of Dominion holdouts, in exchange for vital food, aid, and ammunition.

### Russian Special Military Operation in Alaska

In the peripheral view of both Mexico and Canada’s intervention operations, an unanticipated turn of events came to the abandoned state of Alaska. Despite officially rejecting calls to intervene in American affairs, the Russian Federation commenced its own special military operation in Alaska, in the late Spring of 2033. The former state had faced many of the same civil and ecological strife as other states, but Alaska’s isolation proved to be both an advantage and a weakness, in regards to managing the threats.

Due to the staggering defeat the then-Putin-led Russian regime faced in Ukraine, it was assumed by most Western observers that Russia was too weak to project power outside of their own borders, for the foreseeable future. As a result of this defeat, a coup-d'etat led by disillusioned Russian veterans of the war overthrew the Putin regime, in January 2027. The takeover was largely bloodless, and a new administration was quick to resume power, led by rising Russian populist figure Artyom Volkov. Still a relative unknown in the West, his policies to revive failing Russian infrastructure gave the impression that the Russian Federation was far more concerned with internal stability, rather than committing any forces to the Former United States.

Public assumptions of Russian neutrality were shattered in the Spring of 2033, shortly after both Mexico and Canada’s operations stabilized. In May 2033, the Russian Federation invaded Alaska, and began their own costly counter-insurgency occupation. With conflict so prevalent in the former US state, it was assumed by intelligence sources that resistance would be light in comparison, and local citizens would welcome the prospect of stability, even if delivered by Russians. The international community placed further sanctions on Russia, and an observation fleet was deployed to monitor the situation from the Bering Sea. Despite facing the penalties, the overall public perception of Russia’s intervention in Alaska was virtually the same operational scope as Mexico’s intervention in the Southwest. The official objectives of Russian intervention is largely the same as both Mexico and Canada's own operations: Neutralize antagonizing fundamentalist forces, restore key infrastructure, and return stability to the region. The only difference, in this case, is that Russia formally annexes Alaska, as a part of the Russian Federation, under its original name of Alyeska (what the territory was largely known as, when the US purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire, in 1867.)

#### Invasion of Anchorage

With little to no resistance against initial deployments in the Bering Sea, and establishing a beachhead in Nome, Russian Naval and Air Forces assault outer defenses around Anchorage. Remnant Alaskan Coast Guard vessels and Dominionist littoral naval ships are the only resistance, and were quickly neutralized. Coast Guard ships flee for Juneau, and North Star Dominion naval forces are wiped out. The few defenders in and around Anchorage on the ground are forced to withdraw by Russian Spetsnaz and Private Military troops. Despite initial conflict, the local populace are more cooperative than expected, collaborating with Russian forces and betraying their previous Dominion occupiers. Despite the militiamen of the groups being largely arrested or executed, leaders are offered amnesty in exchange for surrendering their assets, and serving out a sentence of reeducation in Russia. (It was expected by the Dominion oligarchs that this was to be rewarded for cooperation and Russian support in previous years, but with the new Russian administration, they were instead extradited to Russian and European criminal courts, and imprisoned in Russia, as collaborators to the previous regime.)

#### Battle of Fairbanks

Remnants of the 279th Regional Support Group of the Alaskan Army National Guard make up the majority of local resistance against Russian invaders. Virtually all surviving North Star Dominion fighters went to ground, and Guardsmen establish defenses around Fairbanks, Alaska, as a final holdout. After weeks of heavy fighting and constant Russian shelling and air strikes, the 279th withdrew from Fairbanks, and fled into the Alaskan wilderness. Months of conflict would transition the former Guard unit into a grassroots freedom fighter movement, known as the Alaskan Freedom Front.

#### Evacuation of Juneau

Fearing brutal Russian occupation, a mass exodus of Alaskans commenced, by sea, to Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

After the Juneau Evacuation, the remaining civilian populace was subject to a new Russian administration. Rather than what the West assumed from a Putin-led Russia, Volkov's Russian government prioritized restoring key infrastructure and transporting new implants from Russia, to man businesses and industry in the new Oblast. Transition to Russian authority was largely peaceful, and the heavy-handed military action was mainly aimed at annihilating Dominion forces, as well as loyalist American National Guard holdouts, considered peer extremists with the fundamentalists, to the Russian private military forces. Despite overwhelming naval and aerial force from the Russian Navy and Air Force, the majority of ground combat was committed by Russian private security companies, contracted by the Russian government for expeditionary operations, while the Army was being rebuilt. After initial combat, the majority of peacekeeping was supplemented by local forces that cooperated with the Russian humanitarian efforts.

### Military Assistance Group - Northern United States (MAGNUS)

With avenues opened into the United States, multiple operations by local, neighboring, and foreign security and aid relief organizations began the staggering workload of returning order to lawless and impoverished regions of the Former United States. The United Nations had devised three separate theaters of operation in North America. UNONA (United Nations Operation, North America) divided peacekeeping and relief efforts into these operations by proximity and logistical capacity for the required forces.

#### Mission Parameters:

The missions required of any and all peacekeepers would be comprehensive and exhausting, varying by their deployment zones. The foremost important objective was to provide humanitarian relief in “Impacted Zones”, namely the US Safe Zone (to the US’ chagrin), and to the various zones of Ungoverned America. To facilitate that, Peacekeepers would need to establish safe zones for refugees to seek aid. That would involve the establishment of field hospitals, kitchens, and administrative centers for impacted Americans. That would also involve the mission of reestablishing supply lines, along abandoned highways and railways, to deliver food and medical supplies. All of these operations also required exhaustive amounts of manpower, to serve as security in a lawless wasteland.

The scope of these peacekeeping operations also required the services of foreign NGOs, to aid displaced Americans. Services included potential immigration resources for eligible candidates, or naturalization to neighboring countries. Despite acting contrary to many of the US’ mission goals, Peacekeepers also deployed to assist the United States in securing high-value targets, whether they were vital infrastructure, military assets, or high-value resources. Despite the UN Mission being largely a peacekeeping effort, foreign Special Warfare units also deployed, to help train isolated communities in general security tactics, and to aid in apprehending known war criminals, at large in the wastelands, to extradite them to tribunals for crimes against humanity.

If active peacekeeping was too hazardous in certain zones, namely the Dominions, then the secondary goal of the peacekeepers was to assist the United States, and other New States, in establishing Demilitarized Zones against neighboring belligerent parties. The goal of these zones would serve to quarantine the Dominion, and mitigate the flow of illicit smuggling of contraband and human trafficking.

#### Capabilities:

The task of “Peacekeeping” is a comprehensive process, and it requires more than just riflemen restoring order in a heavy-handed police action. A crisis of this magnitude requires the services of the more complex logistical side of militaries. These include, but are not limited to, Border Police forces to maintain natural and diplomatic borders during an immigration crisis, Headquarters (HQ) personnel to provide clerical services, support personnel to provide general base utilities and services, Food Service personnel to provide hot food to refugees on outreach missions, Medical personnel to provide hospital and clinical services to refugees, Motor services to provide transportation of resources and peacekeepers, Military Police to provide general peacekeeping on bases and outreach FOBs (Forward Operating Bases), Naval Forces to project marine and air forces and establish a coastal blockade, Ground Forces to provide general security and manpower, and Special Forces to conduct critical operations and apprehend wanted fugitives.

#### Deployment Zones:

With hostilities varying in severity all across the New American Wasteland, international peacekeepers limited their deployment only to zones they could capably reach with their own logistical assets. Over time, this reach could increase further and further, as order would be restored. The opening operational deployments were limited to any secured communities, townships, and city-states, as well as roadways in-between. To relieve pressure on peacekeepers, it was also encouraged to assist local populations in developing their own adequate defense forces. These Community Defense Forces would prove vital in improving relations between displaced civilians and impacted refugees. The most capable places to deploy from would include current and former US military bases. Those would also include bases populated with displaced refugees after the US abandoned them, turncoat forces such as fundamentalists or other warlords, or occupied by new allied militaries, such as the Pacifican, Cascadian, and United California Defense Forces.

In the United States Proper, UNONA - EAST was deployed to provide aid relief in the US Safe Zone, as well as deploy peacekeepers and more aid relief in impacted neighboring zones. Medical, Motor Transport, Administrative, Food Service, Military Police, and Ground and Air forces were deployed by many premiere and rising nations. Germany’s Bundeswehr deployed its Medical Corps, to provide field hospitals in impacted zones. Ireland deployed its Army’s motor transport units to provide logistical support. Italy deployed its Army and Air Force, to provide a large share of security forces in the region. Spain deployed Military Police soldiers to support stations, and their Navy and Marine Infantry provided the majority of the Atlantic Blockade on the Eastern Seaboard. Ukraine, now a better-armed member of NATO and the European Union, deployed its International Legion, to return the favor to the US assisting their own war a decade prior. Sweden, a newer participant of NATO, deployed their own logistical forces, for medical and food support. Poland deployed Military Police and logistical transport assets. Rwanda’s modernizing military deployed vital Headquarters and Services Administrative Personnel, alongside Senegal and Morocco.

On the West Coast, UNONA - WEST was deployed from Canada, Pacifica, Northern United California, and the Western United States. Medical, Motor Transport, Administrative, Food Service, Military Police, General Peacekeepers, and Select Special Operations Units were deployed to combat remnant fundamentalists, separatists, and other outlaws. Japan’s Defense Force, rarely seen outside their own borders, deployed non-combat personnel, to provide Headquarters & Support, Medical, and Food Service, with only token security forces as protection. Australia and New Zealand deployed vital Naval, Medical, and Food Service units, as well as Army forces for peacekeeping duties. South Korea also provided Medical and Military Police Forces, but also deployed classified numbers of their Special Forces teams, to assist in critical asset missions. The lion’s share of Headquarters & Support, Motor Transport, Food Service, and Security Forces were provided by a bulwark of soldiers from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia. And despite not deploying in a more official capacity, many Chinese state-operated private security companies and other organizations were deployed from the People’s Republic of China, rather than commit any uniformed personnel.

In the Southwest, UNONA - SOUTH was deployed from Mexico and United California. Some elements were deployed to support later stages of Operación: Guadalupe. Other elements were deployed in and around the Gulf of Mexico, to help curb the rising piracy threats, and aid seaborne refugees. Mexico continued to operate with the majority of forces, with assistance from United California, as well as neighboring Central American countries. Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, all deployed in support of Mexico’s efforts, providing desperately-needed Transport, Food and Medical aid relief. A surprising turn would see Cuba participating as a vital Naval participant, alongside Caribbean neighbors such as the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, to provide peacekeeping and aid relief in and around the Gulf Coast.

### Main Administrative Centers:

With the sheer quantity of international volunteers now present across North America, headquarters were naturally set in multiple major developed sectors. Major cities across the extant and former United States served as the main hubs of ingoing and outgoing foreign peacekeepers. By 2035, it is a regular occurrence to see uniformed foreign personnel of various militaries present in major American cities, while on liberty or leave between duties.

In the United States Safe Zone, elements of UNONA - EAST have headquartered their forces in the major cities and outlying bases of New York City, New York, Chicago, Illinois, St. Paul, Minnesota, and Washington D.C. In United California, UNONA - SOUTH foreign peacekeepers are stationed in and around San Diego, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, under special diplomatic visas, to allow for provisional CalNet accounts. In Mexico, UNONA - SOUTH and Operación: Guadalupe forces can be found stationed in Baja, Phoenix, and Santa Fe, as well as forward deployed to Tampa Bay in New Florida, and New Orleans, Acadiana. UNONA - WEST forces are deployed across Pacifica, in Seattle and Portland.

### Materiel:

One of the other major hurdles, on top of the sheer manpower required to deploy to North America, is the amount of hardware also required to perform their duties. Untold numbers of trucks, armored cars, ambulances, armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, and assorted aircraft would be prohibitively expensive to deploy from across the globe. To alleviate the pressure, United California offered their own services to the operation, in the form of wholesale of surplus US military vehicles from the Sierra Army Depot, in the Mojave Desert. The sale of military aircraft was also offered, from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, also known as “The Boneyard”.

Both facilities, previously owned and operated by the United States Army and Air Force, were left behind during the US Withdrawal, and now under the care of California Republic Defense Forces. The Sierra Army Depot’s isolation in the Mojave Desert allowed for an untold acreage of desert real estate, where the desert environment could keep these vehicles indefinitely preserved. The Boneyard, despite now being within the territory of Mexican Arizona, was also maintained by both the Mexican Air Force and California Air National Guard.