zero zero 32 hours april 29 2022 a
massive chinese fleet made up of several
dozen destroyers two aircraft carriers
and dozens of troop transport and
landing dock ships push off from their
rally point a few miles off the chinese
coast their destination taiwan and a
forceful reunification of the breakaway
country beneath the waves an american
seawolf submarine sits and observes the
situation relaying a burst transmission
to the rest of the american military via
extreme low frequency communications
it's a cold war relic but still the
quietest submarine in the world and the
chinese subs hunting for american
interceptors are much noisier than it
the burst transmission alerts the
chinese to its presence but resting near
the bottom of the taiwanese strait the
submarine is virtually invisible the
invasion warning reaches the top
echelons of the us military within
minutes american president joe biden
made it clear within months of taking
office that he would defend the
taiwanese people and their democracy
with military force if necessary the
chinese invasion fleet has taken weeks
to a mass and the us has had plenty of
opportunity to make its own preparations
spread out across the pacific are three
american carrier strike groups each made
up of just under 100 combat aircraft and
escort vessels for the big carriers on
guam american bombers drones and fighter
aircraft have been pre-positioned inside
hardened bunkers and u.s aircraft across
south korea japan and the greater
southeastern pacific have long been on
alert but just as word is reaching the
oval office that the chinese are
initiating their invasion of taiwan the
united states is the first to come under
attack the united states and china both
wield considerable counterforce power
and both know that the stakes for not
striking first could mean a knockout
blow before the war even begins the us
has prepared as best it could by moving
aircraft into hardened facilities and
dispersing its naval forces but with an
arsenal of hundreds of long and
intermediate-range missiles the people's
liberation army rocket force is the
first to draw blood 200 ballistic
missiles rained down on american
military installations in japan the
philippines and thailand the strike has
come as a complete surprise chinese
anti-satellite weapons have blinded or
hacked american recon satellites in
orbit meant to detect the thermal plumes
of missile launches some of the missiles
are aimed at specific targets such as
radar and communications hubs while
others disperse cratering munitions to
knock runways out of operations yet
others shower down smaller warheads
across a wide area destroying or
seriously damaging hundreds of american
and japanese aircraft this bolt out of
the blue is a modern day pearl harbor
and it's only just begun next the
plarf's intermediate range ballistic
missiles begin to rain down on american
ships across the south pacific two of
the american carrier groups are in range
of the strike and despite a robust
defense by fleet ballistic missile
defense systems one carrier takes two
direct hits and is sunk 5500 american
sailors are killed in a matter of
seconds the fastest mass loss of life in
u.s military history a second carrier
survives the barrage but is seriously
damaged and considered a mission kill
along with the loss of a dozen escort
vessels the united states has suffered
the worst defeat in its military history
and a financial loss of over 20 billion
dollars redundant systems mitigate the
effects of chinese anti-satellite
attacks within minutes allowing the
united states military to get a clearer
picture of the final phase of the
ballistic missile pearl harbor it's
currently enduring the third wave of
attacks come from china's 100 or so
long-range ballistic missiles which are
targeted at bases in australia guam the
us's most important pacific base and
diego garcia in the indian ocean the
advance warning of a few minutes allows
a few alert aircraft to scream into the
sky before they're destroyed on their
pads and the us missile defenses throw
up a cloud of steel attempting to defend
the most important american military
installations in the world but stopping
a fire truck-sized missile traveling
many times the speed of sound is
extremely difficult and no nation in the
world has ever mastered ballistic
missile defenses runways fuel depots
ammunition storage and troop barracks
are destroyed in seconds with an
additional 15 000 american airmen
sailors and marines dying in the attacks
it's 45 minutes into world war iii and
china has already expended half of its
missile forces it will hold the rest in
reserve to threaten american vessels and
make sure its invasion of taiwan goes
unopposed by the us there's more at
stake here than one island democracy
though the very fate of the world in the
21st century hangs in the balance a
military defeat of the united states
signals a new top dog on the world stage
and china is very eager to shape the
world in its own authoritarian image
chinese fighters based on artificial
islands that the country has been
illegally building in the south pacific
for over a decade ensure air dominance
across the most vulnerable approaches of
the invasion fleet with two carriers out
of the fight and dozens of long-range
air defense missile batteries spread out
across china's unsinkable island
aircraft carriers american power can't
hope to threaten the chinese navy from
the south the attack on taiwan is only
vulnerable from the north but the
thorough destruction on joint american
and japanese military bases has forced
the two nations to base their surviving
air forces from civilian airfields these
two come under sporadic attack though
japan's missile defense forces do a fair
job of shooting down the older
generation missiles china has left in
its inventory china may have launched
attacks on japanese soil but it has
purposefully avoided sending troops to
disputed senkaku islands this was a
calculated move as japan still has a
strong pacifist streak the attacks on
its military installations anger many
japanese but the savagery of the great
missile attack in history has
intimidated much of the japanese people
if china is able to so thoroughly
decimate the nation's military airfields
what could it do against its population
centers its textbook american shock and
awe only this time used against its own
friends the japanese prime minister
meets with his cabinet to make an
important decision will japan join the
us in its war against china while the us
is treaty bound to defend japan in case
of attacks the reverse is not true and
the situation looks grim much of u.s
firepower in the pacific has either been
destroyed or seriously degraded diego
garcia and guam are out of commission
leaving the us with few staging areas
for an offensive against china the loss
of two of its carrier strike groups has
reduced american firepower in the region
by as much as 30 percent even with
reinforcements from central and european
command there's simply few places the
united states can stage a counter-strike
against the chinese from and china still
has hundreds of medium-range missiles
along with over a thousand short-range
ones japan has made its decision it will
not join the us in its fight against
china further to avoid an expansion of
missile strikes on its own shores japan
forbids the us from launching combat
operations from airfields on its
sovereign soil american installations on
japan may be used for humanitarian
purposes but american combat aircraft
cannot fly from the island nation to
strike at chinese forces the loss of
japanese support is crippling for
america's ability to fight the chinese
while the u.s has encircled china with
military installations china has
countered the u.s presence with a
network of anti-air and anti-ship
defenses known as anti-access area
denial or a2ad the network's chinese
defenses have made it extremely
hazardous for american ships or aircraft
to come within hundreds of miles of
chinese forces the us is not completely
helpless though and american submarine
forces devastate the chinese navy over
the coming days china's anti-submarine
warfare capabilities are severely
lacking and u.s subs are deadly quiet
however losses mount over time and with
no surface vessels to exploit the losses
inflicted by u.s submarines the effort
fails to turn the tide to the invasion
of taiwan chinese invasion forces are
further devastated by american standoff
attack weapons launched from a variety
of long-range aircraft a flurry of
anti-ship and ground strike missiles
pound chinese forces inflicting great
losses however taiwan is less than a day
from a heavily militarized chinese coast
and replenishing even the grievous
losses incurred by the invasion is
relatively simple without the u.s
surface navy to threaten the effort
international outrage against china
burns red hot but the nation is much of
the world's greatest trading partner
with 1.4 billion potential customers
corporations from around the world have
made gaining access to chinese markets a
top priority for decades now the massive
economic clout wielded by china helps
deflect much of the world's anger while
many condemn china for its invasion
nobody but the uk and australia are
willing to back up their words with
military action however without the u.s
navy's support there is little that even
a joint fleet can do to break through
the tough chinese defenses in the south
pacific the u.s may have been knocked
out of the pacific but it is by no means
defeated over the coming weeks the
largest naval battle group in american
history is assembled off the coast of
california pulling together vessels from
across american global commands it's a
concentration of firepower unseen in
world history and while losses will be
extraordinarily high in the face of the
chinese a2ad defenses the fleet is
determined to break into the first
island chain and to try to relieve the
pressure on taiwan by now though chinese
forces have occupied much of the small
island nation the taiwanese have put up
a fierce defense of their island and
chinese losses have been astronomical
without u.s naval and air power to
seriously threaten the invasion forces
replenishment and resupply operations
though the unending tidal wave of
manpower from mainland china has
overwhelmed taiwan's defenders the
resistance has fallen back to the
central mountains where heavy cover
gives some protection from china's
complete air superiority most of
taiwan's heavy equipment including tanks
field artillery and attack helicopters
has been destroyed by now and while a
guerrilla resistance could rage for
years china is in effect in control of
the island hunted down by chinese
special forces the taiwanese president
is forced to concede and accepts china's
reunification of the island without u.s
support there is no point in continuing
the bloodshed over a hundred thousand
taiwanese have been killed or seriously
injured inflicting four times that
number on the chinese invaders but the
feat is inevitable and under threat of
more violence from china the taiwanese
president surrenders the united states
is shocked by the sudden surrender china
has now completely secured the first
island chain past its naval borders and
it quickly turns taiwan into an island
fortress the american attack will now
have to break through even tougher
defenses than before but the death blow
to the us war plans comes with taiwan's
official surrender whatever
international support the u.s had going
into the war it has quickly lost the
matter of taiwan has been officially and
violently resolved and nobody feels like
joining the us and the massive loss of
life it will take to restore taiwanese
independence especially not with the
equally massive hit to global trade that
will come from full-scale war between
the u.s and china china quickly sues for
peace between itself and the us the two
nations are not evenly matched in terms
of military power while china maintains
an advantage in the pacific the u.s
military still outmatches its own the
longer the war goes on the greater the
disparity in losses will be between the
two powers with china inevitably
suffering a complete military defeat the
us not only has the superior forces but
also the superior tactical position as
it's able to shut down almost all of
chinese overseas trade which means a
massive reduction in chinese gdp as high
as 35 percent it is in china's best
interest to end the war quickly and with
the reunification of taiwan and world
opinion turning against further violence
the us is forced to accept the ceasefire
the overwhelming bolt out of the blue
attack on u.s forces in the pacific the
loss of the japanese support and the
swift surrender of taiwan have all
worked to strategically defeat the
united states it has not suffered a
military defeat but in the end china has
accomplished all of its strategic goals
in the region and the world now knows
that asia and the pacific the most
economically important region in the
world belongs to it the united states
has just lost the third and shortest of
world wars a defeat that signals to many
that china's rising dragon will be the
one to shape the world for the century
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