World War III 02 Operation Red Dragon and the Unthinkable by James Rosone; Miranda Watson

Author:James Rosone; Miranda Watson [Watson, James Rosone; Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781534774094
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Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Published: 2016-05-28T04:00:00+00:00

The Coming Freeze

30 January 2041

Poznan, Poland

General Schoen’s Headquarters

General Schoen’s 10th Panzer Division had held the Russians for over a month. They had conducted attack and counterattack operations against the Russian 3rd Shock Army and successfully slowed the Russians down, but not stopped them. The 13th Panzer Division had been mauled pretty badly in the south of Poland, and was being consolidated into the 10th under General Schoen. The German and Polish Armies had lost control of Warsaw and Krakow, along with two divisions of German light infantry in the process.

The Polish had lost most of their army near Bialystok when the 3rd Shock Army was able to break through the German 4th Infantry Division and had surrounded 82,000 Polish and 32,000 German soldiers. They held out for five days of heavy fighting before surrendering to the Russians, collapsing the Polish northern defensive positions. The Russians were now less than 20 miles from the German border, with only the 13th Panzer Division left between them and Germany. The American Fifth Army was still consolidating east of Berlin to go on the offense, but had detached the 12th Armored Division to reinforce General Schoen. The 12th Armored Division was the one American division that was made up solely of the new Pershing tanks. These tanks were beasts and more than capable of engaging a numerically superior force and defeating it. The division was also augmented with an artillery brigade, which consisted of the M109A6 Paladin self-propelled 155mm artillery, and the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), which could fire twelve rockets in less than 40 seconds. One M270 vehicle could saturate one-square mile with high-explosive cluster munitions or anti-tank bomblets or mines. With one battalion of MLRSs and two battalions of M109A6 Paladins, the division had a serious punch to it.

With the addition of the American 12th Armored Division, General Schoen had been able to stop the Russian advance for the moment. Then the winter storms blew in with a flurry and shut down all military operations.

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Over the past decade, the global climate had changed due to the Indian-Pakistan nuclear war; the conflict had blown an immense amount of dust particulars into the atmosphere. This caused global temperatures to drop three full degrees, and increased both the North and South polar caps. It had changed the weather enough that it had caused once fertile lands to have shorter growing seasons and others to have longer growing seasons with the shifts in the jet stream.

During the Indian-Pakistan war, there were over 150 nuclear weapons used, each ranging in the 10 kiloton to 30 kiloton range (most were ground burst detonations, which sent far more dirt particles into the air than a traditional air burst). When New York and Baltimore were nuked, they were each hit by 50 kiloton warheads; both were ground bursts, throwing tremendous amounts of dust into the atmosphere. The United States had responded by hitting North Africa and the Middle East with over 130 nuclear warheads in the range of

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