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Sun Tzu

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Norman Schwarzkopf

Military Fiction Spotlight

Operation Scorpion Strike


The NADC has tracked the Islamiyah Jeddah to an isolated and barren desert location on the East coast of Baja California. The joint force is comprised primarily of augmenting marines from the 7th Operational Group out of Twenty-Nine Palms, CA. The marines were not meant to comprise the main body but they performed so well earlier in joint training exercises in Northern Mexico that they were requested by 2 NADC operational commanders for participation in Operation Scorpion Strike. The marines will establish security in a base of operations that the NADC will occupy for the first stage of this strike, there the NADC will launch precision strikes into IJ territory with the intent of eliminating IJ leadership, key resources and a weapons cache. Later stages will include exhaustive sweeps of the region to ensure that covert elements have been flushed out and removed altogether. The destruction of all IJ assets has been authorized as well as the elimination of any armed combatants that resist the removal of assets.

Operation Trident Strike


Joint NADC.-Mexican and US maritime forces conduct a coordinated interception and interdiction operation off the coast of Ensenada, Baja California to locate, identify, and seize the Hai Yuan vessel suspected of transporting an Improvised Nuclear Device (IND) on behalf of the violent extremist organization Islamiyah Jeddah. The mission will prevent the weapon’s transfer to land and ultimately for use against the city of Phoenix, Arizona.