World War III: How it will Play Out (1): The Beginning (922 hits)
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Submitted by Axolotl (View user info) at 2006-02-20 11:42:25 EST
Based on Electrictoothsyndrome's post,
http://www.ubersite.com/m/83597
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The company gazed across the light brush and sparse grasslands of eastern Iraq, to where the high Zagros Mountains reared up from the flat Mesopotamian soil. It was almost H-Hour, and the men of the 113th Infantry were lined up on their encampment on the Iraq-Iran border, ready to storm the enemy's territory.
It was the 25th of June, and the sun would be blazing in a few hours when it rose past the mountains of central Iran. They were attacking in the early hours of the morning, when all would be quiet in the world.
They crouched on the borderline, M-16s in their hands, flak jackets on, and helmets ready. They were prepared to take on the strongest foe America had faced since Vietnam, and to win.
F-22 jets and stealth bombers roared overhead, their sonic booms echoing across the plain. An officer's watch beeped; all that was needed was the order.
"Three-fifteen AM," said a colonel. "Let's get going."
The line of companies, miles and miles long, stood up and marched briskly across the border. Armored and mechanized units ferried more and more soldiers by truck and tank into the mountains on the horizon. Wings of fighter jets zoomed overhead, ready to engage the Iranian Air Force, and bombers flew at lower levels, sailing steadily toward the cities of Tehran, Esfahan, and Hamadan.
The invasion had begun.
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In the summer of 2006, the UN, at the behest of Israel and the United States, took sanctions against Iran, and enforced a trade embargo against it. Due to the affair of the Mohammed cartoons a few months earlier, Europe was much alienated from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
That November, tensions rose, and demands were made that Iran immediately halt its nuclear program. UN inspectors went into Iran, and inferred that Iran could produce a nuclear weapon. Israel in particular was disturbed at this, and considered military action.
The European Union grew in 2007 with the addition of several new countries, and this new EU was far distant from Iran. President Bush declared its backing of Israel should there be any reprisals of force, and the UK threw their lot in with the allies. For now, the rest of the EU chose to stay out of any wars in the Middle East.
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Flames rose in the distance as US bombers pounded Iranian positions. A curtain of artillery fire four hundred yards before the advance of the 3rd British Infantry Division decimated any Iranian forces. The Royal Fusiliers, Company C, took the first casualty of the war, somewhere near the outskirts of Abadan.
Three regiments of British soldiers had been thrown forth in a pre-dawn attack to quickly seize an important canal as well as the oil processing and trade center of Abadan, Iran's most important port on the Persian Gulf. 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was first to engage the enemy, and a British rifleman took a bullet just beneath his flak jacket.
In a furious gunfight that lasted eight hours, the Iranian opposition crumbled and fell from the shock and awe attack. The firepower of the US jets mixed with British artillery and machine guns cut down four hundred Iranian soldiers of the 30th Division.
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On May 1st, 2007, the US Army officially reactivated VII and X Corps, as well as several other archaic divisions. The X Corps was deployed to Iraq, to assist the battalions of Iraqi soldiers already keeping insurgent under control.
The final demands were made that Iran halt its nuclear program and immediately dismantle its nuclear processing centers. President Ahmejinad utterly refused. In late May and early June, troops were built up in the Gulf. The 40th and 29th Infantry Divisions were deployed to Baghdad and Basra, and three Enhanced Separate National Guard Brigades were sent to be used for the protection of Iraq when the main army was away.
The 101st Airborne and Second Marine Expeditionary Force concentrated on the northwest corner of Iran, and Israel sent its famed Golani Brigade to temporarily join the XVIII Airborne Corps. The Golani Brigade had been formerly commanded sixty years earlier by the late Ariel Sharon, so it was sent forth to fight against Iran.
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"Check your equipment!" the sergeant ordered over the roar of the plane's engines. The open door revealed anti-aircraft guns firing up into the night air, and the city of Tabriz's glowing lights.
The squad inside the plane sounded off, and they prepared to jump. The green light went on, and the columns of paratroopers of the 101st in the plane threw themselves from the aircraft and into the void.
120mm anti-air cannons shot up at the US jets, and blew holes through the parachutes' canvases. The division landed in full force behind the enemy lines, and seized control of the region. The first America casualty of war were the men on a plane that took a hit to its engine and sunk from the air, crashing into the grasslands of northwest Iran.
The 101st Airborne grouped up together and began systematically crushing resistance to their surprise attack.
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Anti-war protests were strong all over the world, especially in Europe and the "blue states" of America. People had been misled by Bush before in Iraq, which was now looked upon as a staging point for Bush's great crusade. All over the Middle East and Europe people protested the oncoming war, calling it evil, imperialistic, and murderous.
Iran sat back behind the walls of the Zagros mountains, preparing a defense. If they attacked, they could lose their goodwill, so all they did was build trenches, dragons' teeth, and pillboxes along the border, and fortified their walls. They had three armies prepared for the four prongs of the allied assault. The Americans, it was predicted, would attack from Basra, from Mosul, from Baghdad, and from Afghanistan.
On the 23rd of June, 2007, a 48-hour warning was given, same as was given to Iraqi four years earlier. It was not heeded. On the 25th of June, the Americans, Israelis and British moved in.
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As the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment rode through the sparsely-populated southeast section of Iran, they thought how much it looked like Afghanistan. They hadn't come up on any hostile force yet, and most likely would only see irregular troops, muhajedeen, and suicide bombers.
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The US 3rd Army of CENTCOM prepared for a fight unlike anything they had seen before. Iraq's flat landscape enabled speedy assaults, and they had swiftly cut through Afghanistan's defenses with their superior technology. Iran was rocky, mountainous, and had impenetrable walls of mountain ranges.
At 3:15 in the morning, the 3rd Infantry Division stormed the border of Iran up in the north, where there was grass and streams. Along with the 40th Division and II MEF, they made their way toward the city of Orimiyeh, while the 101st Airborne dropped beyond enemy lines to assault Tabriz.
Further south, the 42nd Division, a National Guard unit from New Jersey and New York led the charge with the Fighting 69th Regiment. They were flanked on either side by the 172nd Infantry Brigade, and the Golani Brigade from Israel. Carefully navigating the rocky passes of Iran, they made their way to attack Kermanshah.
From Basra came the X Corps, led by the newly-reactivated 3rd Armored and 8th Infantry Divisions. The 7th and 3rd British Infantry Divisions, as well as Virginia's 29th National Guard Division backed up the Corps as they clashed with the Iranian 3rd Army at Ahvaz and Abadan. The Corps would eventually split, one part going toward Shiraz and Kerman and linking up with the 2nd Armored Cavalry, and the second part going through Esfahan and Qom, to attack Tehran.
The 10th Mountain, 2nd Armored Cavalry, and 75th Ranger Regiment were all released from Afghanistan, making their way in different directions through the remote desert regions. The 75th Rangers' job was important: to cut their way all through the mountains to central Iran and to throw off the defenders so that the rest of the troops could swoop in to quickly seize key cities.
The war had begun...but already people were choosing sides. The EU had declared themselves neutral, but Russia and China wanted a share in the new Iran when it rose. The Islamic nations of the Middle East weren't going to take the invasion of Iran lightly.
To be continued...
User Reviews
Submitted by Flack (user info) at 2006-03-10 17:29:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This is fucking SICK! WHERES MY 1st CAV TROOPERS, GODAMMIT? They better kick some serious fucking ass!
Fuck all those sand niggers! They can kiss my white, imperialistic ass!
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-03-10 17:02:39 EST (#)
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I'm not going to continue this, I think.
Weep.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-22 09:41:11 EST (#)
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Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2006-02-22 01:23:41 (#)
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not bad. keep it up.
However, EXODUS CHRONICLES MOTHER FUCKER!
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Coming up soon! It's just taking longer, because I don't have most of it written out...but soon!
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2006-02-22 01:23:41 EST (#)
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not bad. keep it up.
However, EXODUS CHRONICLES MOTHER FUCKER!
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-20 23:18:48 EST (#)
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recalc
Submitted by Amorphous (user info) at 2006-02-20 23:13:23 EST (#)
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Submitted by ConorJS (user info) at 2006-02-20 21:56:55 (#)
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+2 for effort/interesting, -1 because you're wrong.
No WAY infantry would be the first over the border in an invasion of Iran. Once tank columns made it fro Iraq to Afghanistan, and vice versa, some ground troops would go in. Just watch the history channel. And no WAY the 101st would do a combat drop on Tehran. YOU LOSE, SCHMUCK!
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This would be after a bombing campaign of key points. I haven't expanded on the order of battle, and even Mechanized Infantry divisions have armored brigades/squadrons and lesser regimental units. The 101st is not doing a combat drop on Tehran, it is doing a combat drop on Tabriz, which is hundreds of miles away in the northwest of Iran, where there's more open space.
Thanks for your input.
Submitted by ConorJS (user info) at 2006-02-20 22:04:15 EST (#)
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Rate this! I don't care if you -2 it, ATLEAST LOOK AT THE PICTURE!!! (very VERY mildly NSFW)
Submitted by ConorJS (user info) at 2006-02-20 21:56:55 EST (#)
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+2 for effort/interesting, -1 because you're wrong.
No WAY infantry would be the first over the border in an invasion of Iran. Once tank columns made it fro Iraq to Afghanistan, and vice versa, some ground troops would go in. Just watch the history channel. And no WAY the 101st would do a combat drop on Tehran. YOU LOSE, SCHMUCK!
Submitted by Benny (user info) at 2006-02-20 21:49:25 EST (#)
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Interesting. I will keep an eye out for the next one.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-20 18:04:30 EST (#)
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Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-02-20 16:32:23 (#)
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If you think we're coming to Iran with you, you're nuts.
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We'll see...bwahaha!
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-02-20 16:32:23 EST (#)
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If you think we're coming to Iran with you, you're nuts.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-02-20 16:24:13 EST (#)
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I see someone else watched Terminator 3 on the teevee last night...good job Axo, keep this going man!
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2006-02-20 16:01:17 EST (#)
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I'm currently working on something I think you'd be very interested in...
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-20 15:36:54 EST (#)
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Cool. I'm glad someone's doing this.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-20 15:10:25 EST (#)
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Yeah, it was a bit chopped up, but I wanted to get a bit of exposition and background before I started the whole thing up.
Submitted by Zoidberg (user info) at 2006-02-20 14:57:52 EST (#)
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sorry, meant for a higher rating
and RE my earlier comment, I think that will be one of the flashpoints that gets the world trading in euros, though I dont think they'll take Iran up on its exchange.
Submitted by Zoidberg (user info) at 2006-02-20 14:24:22 EST (#)
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The UN nothing, March 20th, thereabouts
things might get very interesting
Submitted by GDR (user info) at 2006-02-20 14:03:49 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by turkishblend (user info) at 2006-02-20 12:29:19 EST (#)
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+1 because this was a bit disjointed, but interesting speculation none the less. If we do end up going to war with Iran it will be interesting to see what happens with the new government in Iraq since the recently empowered Shiites have political and religious ties with Iran and many of the current leaders sought asylum there during the Iran/Iraq war. Apparently some have said they would support Iran in the case of a US invasion
Submitted by Nellypaal (user info) at 2006-02-20 12:14:07 EST (#)
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I can't wait.
I'll have to buy myself an HD telly and a popcorn machine.
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2006-02-20 12:02:57 EST (#)
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i liked this a lot.
keep it up.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-02-20 11:56:31 EST (#)
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+2 for the research only. Otherwise, I found this a bit choppy and parts untied. Hopefully you can make sense of all this in your next installment.