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Scenario: World War III

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In 2020, growing India and Pakistan finally flared into war. While India possessed a higher population and greater resources than their smaller neighbor, Pakistan was better prepared and made significant advances during the opening clashes of the war. India though had developed an air force ages ahead of the Pakistani air force; daring tactical bombing raids disabled the vaunted Pakistani "first strike" armored and artillery brigades and stopped them in their path only 30km past the Indian border. The front quickly stabilized, both sides poured in reinforcements, and all hopes for a swift resolution began to wane, forcing both countries to call upon their allies for support. The United Nations once again proved unable to exert any influence of significance beyond a 700 man peacekeeping force in Kashmir.

At the end of the first year, no less than twelve different nations were involved in the hostilities in one form or another. Pakistan was at the forefront of a powerful trade alliance between many of the former Russian states that earned independence after the breakup of the Soviet Union in the late 20th Century. The countries - Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Azerbaijan, with the notable exception of Georgia - began to send troops and equipment into Pakistan to replace losses that nation's industry could not quickly construct. While individually their military power was limited, they proved quite effective when united. In response, India called upon its friends in Banglad

esh and Nepal to join the fight, and began to put pressure on the Chinese to intervene.

To this end, China began pouring troops across the Pakistani border in early 2022, predicating their advances with barrages of literally thousands of missiles upon the fortified villages in their path. Pakistan had no chance to stop these advancing armies - if they pulled troops away from the Indian front, that line would shatter and all would be lost. In desperation, and indeed with no other choice available to them, Pakistani aircraft dropped three low-yield nuclear bombs atop the advancing Chinese spearheads.

Reaction from the world was one of immediate outrage and panic. Global stock markets were severely damaged as the threat of nuclear annihilation loomed. Fearing further strikes on Chinese territory, the government in Beijing ordered the launch of twelve nuclear missiles into Pakistan, but these never reached their targets. Instead, all of them mysteriously exploded at the highest point of their ballistic trajectory. A second strike also failed, as did a counterattack by Pakistan's few existing ballistic missiles.

Although long-range attacks were somehow rendered impotent, cruise missiles and tactical artillery shells were successfully exchanged, leaving the border between Pakistan and China a devastated wasteland. Limited nuclear strikes also occurred within India itself, on or near the front lines, but both sides resisted the temptation to start destroying each other's cities.

Within the United Nations, the use of nuclear weapons by the warring powers was the object of heated debate. The Security Council produced a resolution condemning further use of such weapons, but this was summarily ignored. In response, Canadamerica, Britain, and Russia unilaterally cut off all trade and financial support to the entire area.

Once again intercontinental nuclear missiles were launched, but not a single one ever struck any target. It was at this point that Canadamerica revealed a previously unknown array of automated global defense satellites capable of tracking and knocking down any ballistic missile within minutes of launch. This system, known as Earth Shield, put the United Nations into an uproar. Every country, with the exception of Britain and Australia, argued bitterly. It was their contention that the use of such a system against active military forces was an act of war. Canadamerica argued that had they not utilized Earth Shield, most of Pakistan, India, and China, if not the whole of Asia, would be a devastated radioactive zone. In response, Russia and China withdrew from the United Nations, effectively causing that organization to cease to exist.  In a daring bid, Chinese "Jade Dragon" mobile fighting platforms launched lower orbital raids upon key Earth Shield components, reducing the system to under 60% capability. Over the course of the ensuing year, the ongoing war spread throughout Asia. Chinese armies rampaged through eastern Russia, but stalled as they approached Moscow, as Russians deployed their experimental Super Tank units. The Super Tank’s feared EMP rail guns proved effective; literally whole cleaving Chinese armored divisions. The winter of that year, heightened by nuclear-driven dust in the upper atmosphere, was one of the worst on record. Millions of Chinese andRussians died on the steppes. Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia all became involved in the fighting to one degree or another. Canadamercia and European Union, suffering economically under the collapse of the world's stock markets, sent in a

combined 450,000 soldier, multi-national task force to try to halt the fighting. The task force managed to secure much of South East Asia, but as they approached northward, they were fired upon by the very people they were trying to help and opted to halt their advance. In the end, the military might of the two superpowers remained idle, waiting in offshore task forces or within neutral countries for the fighting to die down.

World War III, as it was now known, did not officially end until 2024, although scattered fighting continued between India and Pakistan until the middle of 2025.The Indian defense, working as a unit with its intelligence proved to be too big a hindrance for invading Pakistani troops, who eventually began retreating despite orders to continue attacking. Much of the Pakista

ni region was devastated or entirely destroyed. The world markets gradually stabilized as China's armies retreated and resumed the goal of suppressing the revolution. Most of Pakistan's allies, their resources depleted by punishing Indian air strikes, pulled out of the war one by one. India seemed to be emerging as the clear winner admits all the chaos having suffered least damage on its land. India eventually drove Pakistan back to its own border, but made no effort to advance further, fearing additional nuclear bombardment or, more likely, the United States, which was by then threatening to begin bombing both sides if the war did not come to  an immediate halt. This perhaps a precautionary measure by Canada,america fearing India's eminent rise as a dominant super power. When all was said and done, very few borders changed, but over a dozen nations were left in ruins. Many of the world's emer

ging powers were stuck down. The world would never be the same.

As compiled by:

Dhaval Sheth

Batch 2010-12 (Mktg)

SOURCE: http://future.wikia.com/wiki/Scenario:_World_War_III