World War 3 (Hour by Hour)

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The huge fleet is a mix of military and civilian ships, including commercial ferries with reinforced ramps to allow them to load and unload heavy military vehicles. This first wave of invaders is 35,000 strong, and many more tens of thousands of soldiers are waiting their turn to make the 100-mile journey to Taiwan. Chinese frigates scour the waters of the Taiwan Strait in search of American or Taiwanese submarines; A formal declaration of war is being declared against Taiwan as the ships pass through the waves, and although no declaration of war against the United States is being prepared, the United States is fully expected to fulfill its commitment to defend Taiwan from invasion.

Any submarine in the Taiwan Strait that does not belong to the People's Liberation Army Navy will be considered hostile and will be fired upon. A

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away, Russian forces leaving Belarus and the Western Military District launch an offensive against the Baltics. The flat, featureless plains of Eastern Europe are perfect tank country and favor the attacker, with few natural features on which to build defenses. Above, a barrage of missiles prevents Russian troops from crossing into NATO territory. Hundreds of ballistic and cruise missiles fly across Eastern Europe, targeting NATO airfields, supply depots and troop staging areas. Ground-based AEGIS installations and other missile defenses begin to light up the sky with their own counterfire.

The average success rate for missile defense systems is between 50 and 60%, but that still means that more than a hundred missiles find their targets, crater airfields, destroy fuel depots, and kill hundreds of people in land. But NATO has not been blind to Russia's buildup of military troops, and the moment the first wave of missile attacks is detected and they are still in the air, NATO responds accordingly. The skies are so filled with missiles for a few minutes that it is not safe for NATO or Russian combat air patrols to operate in the region, and they hover at low altitudes for safety.

NATO missiles have better accuracy than Russian missiles, but Russian missile defenses are slightly more effective than NATO's. In the Pacific, China launches almost six hundred missiles in the span of an

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, the largest missile barrage in human history. These missiles target Taiwan's military and civilian airfields, hangars, command and control nodes, and electrical power plants. However, a significant number of them also target US air bases in Guam, Japan and South Korea. The American and Taiwanese missile defenses fought valiantly, but the overwhelming fire is too much and many of the missiles hit their targets. Guam is ravaged by ballistic missile attacks and the largest US military base in the Pacific is temporarily out of commission.

Thousands die on the ground. Other missile attacks target US warships operating in the Pacific. It has taken China four months to prepare its amphibious assault fleet, giving the world enough time to prepare for the coming war. The United States now operates four aircraft carrier groups in the Pacific, with a fifth in reserve along the American west coast. When US satellites detect the start of the Chinese attack, a warning is sent to the entire US Pacific fleet. The aircraft carriers are now moving at full speed, taking random and aggressive turns, all in an attempt to divert the target of Chinese missiles.

However, US cyber and electronic warfare operations are already underway, targeting China's reconnaissance assets and assets. They manage to degrade the accuracy of Chinese missiles, but their large number still makes them a serious threat. As the missiles re-entered the atmosphere at several thousand kilometers per

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, American missile defenses erected a wall of lead and steel, and escort cruisers shot down the Chinese missiles with their own SM-3 missiles. When the smoke clears, one American aircraft carrier has been sunk and two have been severely damaged. The third has only suffered minor damage. However, many of the carrier group's escorts are severely damaged or sunk.

The US Navy just experienced the largest single-day loss of life in its history. Hour 2 On the ground in Eastern Europe, Russian forces are making contact with NATO's first line of defenses. NATO's Rapid Response Force has dug in as best it can along the eastern flank of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, but the flat terrain does not offer much of a defensive advantage to NATO. NATO tanks are generally more modern and more capable than Russian tanks thanks to crippling sanctions imposed on Russia after its annexation of Crimea in 2014, and additional sanctions in 2022 after its invasion of Ukraine. In addition to destroying the Russian economy, the blocking of computer chips from major manufacturers such as Taiwan has been a devastating blow to a military already suffering from worn-out and poorly maintained equipment.

This has had a cascading effect throughout the Russian military, as much of modern armies' smart technology relies heavily on computer components that Russia is now forced to manufacture domestically. Everything from modern anti-tank missiles to air-to-air missiles and even fire control radars have a limited reserve and must be applied judiciously. The T-72 still makes up the bulk of Russian forces, although several thousand Cold War-era tanks have been activated in preparation for war. These tanks suffer from serious deficiencies compared to modern weapons and are largely used by the Russians as cannon fodder. Dozens of T-55s, T-62s and T-64s crash into NATO defenses, absorbing anti-tank fire, while more modern T-72s, T-80s and T-90s pick off exhausted defenders.

The casualties are horrendous for the Russians, but they have a lot of obsolete equipment to throw into the fight. NATO tanks are much more capable than most Russian tanks, but they are also more expensive and significantly fewer in number. The United States is still in the process of sending the bulk of its armored forces to Europe, but it will still be several weeks before significant numbers of American armor are ready for combat. For now, Europe must hold the line long enough for the United States to bring its full firepower to bear, aided, of course, by a few thousand forward American forces stationed in Europe.

Combat in the air is as intense as on the ground. Within minutes of the start of the war, the air forces of both sides took to the skies. The Russian MiGs are capable aircraft, but again they face serious modernity problems due to lack of financing. However, while the Russian military has an earned reputation in Ukraine for poor tactics, communications and performance, the Russian air force remains a competent and credible threat to NATO. Both sides are unable to use the full power of their air forces to confront each other. For NATO aircraft, the threat comes from Russia's numerous air defense batteries, which operate near the front lines and can even threaten NATO aircraft from within Russia's borders.

The S-400 system is among the best air defense systems in the world and is lethal to NATO's fourth and fourth generation fighters. At intermediate and short range, numerous self-propelled air defense guns shore up the defenses of the S-400 and older S-300. NATO, on the other hand, relies heavily on fighters and interceptors for air defense, which in turn run the risk of Russian ground defenses. However, NATO enjoys a clear advantage over Russia: the F-35 stealth fighter and the US fleet of F-22 air supremacy fighters. Unfortunately, only a few hundred F-35s are capable of combat operations across the NATO alliance, and most of them are from the United States.

The vaunted F-22, the world's most capable air supremacy fighter, is also in very low numbers, with most of them being diverted to bases in the Pacific for sea and air warfare against China. Entire fleets of American aircraft are already crossing the Atlantic with the help of tankers, but it will still take a day or two before they are ready for combat operations. Europe's lack of stealth fighters means they cannot operate safely near front lines, temporarily giving the air advantage to Russia. Russia is exploiting that advantage as best it can, but carrying out strike missions on the front lines remains dangerous business for its air force.

Russian bombers devastate NATO defenses, but also cause their own casualties. Long-range attacks using air-launched cruise missiles help keep Russian pilots out of harm's way. NATO responds with its own long-range strikes, but for now the air over the front belongs to Russia. Attack helicopters from both sides fight against ground defenses and each other along the entire front. It will still take time for NATO to gather its forces, and the numerical advantage is once again in Russia's favor. Still, both sides suffer heavy air cavalry losses due to man-portable air defense weapons and traditional air defenses. As the second hour of World War III draws to a close, a massive offensive from the military enclave of Kaliningrad pushes back against NATO defenses in southern Lithuania.

More cruise and ballistic missile attacks rain in and out of Kaliningrad from NATO return fire. The overwhelming amount of NATO firepower directed at Kaliningrad quickly ends any hope of air operations outside the enclave, but it remains a strong point for tens of thousands of Russian troops and armor manning defenses along along the Polish border while a separate attack is carried out. to the north, towards Lithuania, it seeks to destroy NATO forces there. Russia's hope is to separate NATO from the Baltics, and there is little the alliance can do to prevent that at this point. Hour 3 In the Pacific, the Chinese navy has begun bombarding the Penghu Islands, silencing the naval defenses there.

The massive amphibious assault force has crossed most of the Taiwan Strait and the fortress island nation is now in sight. Overhead, Chinese fighters battle Taiwan's rapidly dwindling air force for supremacy, while other attack aircraft conduct SEAD operations, or suppression of enemy air defenses. Taiwan is equipped with very robust air defenses, courtesy of the United States, and these take a heavy toll on Chinese aircraft. However, China has more than 2,000 fighter jets and can easily absorb the punishment. However, lurking beneath the waves, the Chinese fleet runs into an ambush coordinated by the Taiwanese and Americans. The American and Taiwanese submarines have been shut down, they lurk silently and await the fleet's approach, and now, with the lead ships within reach, they begin to make their way toward the Chinese navy.

Each submarine acts independently, but with attacks coming from multiple directions, there is little the Chinese ships can do to avoid destruction. Chinese anti-submarine warfare aircraft have been patrolling the strait for hours, but the Chinese navy's anti-submarine warfare capabilities have serious shortcomings. However, their biggest problem is that they face the American Virginia-class submarines anddiesel electric boats from Taiwan, both extremely quiet. Several Chinese ships are sunk or severely damaged, and in the chaos the invasion fleet expands to avoid becoming an easy target, only to encounter hundreds of anti-ship mines deployed in advance by the Taiwanese navy. The cost to the Chinese navy is staggering, a satisfactory compensation for the losses the US navy suffered during the ballistic missile bombardment of China, but the sheer number of Chinese ships means the invasion will continue.

Exposed by their attacks, the submarines achieve a quick exit from the strait; not all will make it, as Chinese destroyers and ASW aircraft score several hits. Hour 4 The air battle over Eastern Europe intensifies as both sides continue to conduct SEAD operations against the other. For NATO, establishing air dominance is critically important as it is the best way to support outnumbered troops on the ground. Keeping NATO aircraft out of the front lines is equally important for the Russian military to ensure the success of its ground forces. Without air superiority, the advantage is in Russian hands. Knowing that they could not guarantee the safety of attack aircraft against NATO's technologically advanced military, Russia has focused on ground fire support platforms over aerial platforms.

Russian infantry typically have much larger quantities of artillery than a comparable NATO unit, allowing them to bring much greater amounts of firepower to support their advance. In a currently lethal environment for attacking aircraft, this gives Russia a considerable advantage on the front lines. However, this strategy also has serious limitations. Russian forces cannot exploit openings in enemy defenses for fear of leaving their ground fire support and air defenses behind. As NATO forces reel from the Russian attack and retreat, NATO warplanes wait patiently for some Russian force to be foolish enough to advance too quickly for their air defenses to protect them.

The Ukraine war highlighted serious command and control problems for the Russian military, and while steps have been taken to correct the problem, Russian forces facing NATO electronic warfare and often out of contact with leaders for long periods of time, they occasionally retire. in passing with the rest of the advance. Those who do are immediately attacked by NATO ground attack planes, which circle behind the front lines like hungry sharks. However, the bulk of the Russian force maintains operational integrity and moves at a predetermined maximum forward pace to remain under the protection of its ground fire support and air defenses.

However, this makes progress slow and predictable, a fact that the vastly outnumbered NATO forces take full advantage of. Heavily damaged NATO units can withdraw and avoid total destruction, allowing them to regroup and redeploy. However, NATO has its own problems. Russian electronic warfare capabilities are wreaking havoc on NATO communications, and the fact that the alliance speaks more than two dozen different languages ​​creates great difficulties in coordinating the various components of the NATO defense force. English and French are NATO's official languages, and most senior officers know one or both to ensure continuity of operations, but as communications degrade and casualties mount, the lack of Understanding makes it difficult for smaller units to operate together in the area. battlefield.

The alliance is reeling from the attack and is slowly but steadily losing ground. In the Pacific, American air power has not yet entered the fight for Taiwan. Airstrips in South Korea, Japan and even the Philippines face continued attacks from long-range Chinese missiles. The strikes have largely grounded U.S. air forces in the region, but have come at a high cost by prompting Japan to join the fight. South Korea maintains neutrality despite attacks on two US bases in its country and the deaths of some South Korean civilians and military personnel in the attacks. Rather, they are overly concerned about a possible North Korean invasion.

The Philippines similarly remains neutral despite its defense pact with the United States, fearful of joining the United States against China. Countries across the South Pacific are delaying their decisions on which side to back, as confidence in an American victory is shaken by losses suffered by the United States in the early hours of the conflict. There are growing doubts that the United States can effectively fight off the Chinese attack as China's navy and rocket forces keep American forces at bay indefinitely. Backing the United States now could have disastrous consequences in a new world order in the Pacific led by China.

However, Australia is fully committed to its mutual defense pact with the United States and its forces are preparing to deploy to the South Pacific. However, neither Japan nor Australia undertake major air operations against China, instead ensuring territorial integrity and patrolling against any Chinese air incursion. Despite fears that China will attack the disputed Japanese islands, there is no attack as the nation's focus is strictly on its pending invasion of Taiwan. Hour 5 Coastal defenses bring hell down on a swarm of Chinese amphibious assault ships. The battle for Taiwan has begun. China has decided to attack three different beaches simultaneously, two in the north and one in the south of the island.

Due to the difficult underwater geography and suitability of the island's coastline, there are only a few beaches where an amphibious assault is possible, and Taiwan has invested billions in its defense. Chinese forces first attacked Gold Beach, the code word for a landing site outside the city of Taoyuan. Coastal batteries and mobile artillery attack approaching landing craft. The missiles rise into the sky, targeting amphibious assault ships and their escorts more than a dozen miles offshore. Dozens of landing craft and amphibious vehicles are being sunk before the former finally reaches the beach. When the first Chinese soldier sets foot on the Taiwanese mainland, six hundred of his compatriots have already died or drowned.

He doesn't fare much better, almost immediately gunned down by a hidden machine gun nest. A barrage of grenades destroys his landing craft and all the men inside it. But many more landing craft are coming. Gradually, the main elements of the assault successfully reach land, but when the bulk of the assault force crosses an invisible line, the ocean suddenly bursts into flames. Hidden along the seafloor are long pipelines through which defenders pump crude oil. The oil floats to the surface before being set on fire, creating a raging inferno that floats along the tops of the waves. The heat kills dozens of Chinese soldiers even from within the protection of their landing craft.

Large fan-powered landing ships carrying armored vehicles catch fire and begin to sink as their rubber skirts deflate. The losses are horrendous, but still the assault continues. Overhead, Chinese attack planes do what they can to neutralize the island's defenders, annihilating artillery positions with precision-guided weapons. However, many of these planes do not survive their attack, knocked out of the sky by Taiwan's robust air defenses. But the Chinese military has more aircraft than Taiwan's air defenses, and inevitably air defense sites are destroyed one by one through a combination of missile strikes and bombing. !!!РАЗРЫВ!!! (16.01) Taiwan's best defenses are its mobile defenses, self-propelled artillery, and short-range air defense batteries.

These are difficult to track and locate, and are a deadly threat to reconnaissance aircraft attempting to detect them. Taiwan's own air force is up to the task, but it is hopelessly outnumbered. Regardless, the island's defenders continue to launch planes into the sky, operating from highways, as most of the country's airfields have already been damaged or effectively closed. Half an hour after the assault on Gold Beach begins, the Chinese open a second front directly north of Taipei. This assault meets equally intense resistance, and huge Type 072 landing ships filled with tanks and infantry fighting vehicles race toward the beach.

The second assault forces Taiwan to divide its reserves as it races to ensure the Chinese cannot gain a foothold, but Chinese airstrikes are making rapid movement of troops difficult. A barrage of missiles fly off the beach and crash into the lead Type 072, causing massive damage to the ship and sinking it. The sunken ship, loaded with troops and equipment, quickly sinks in shallow water, and a second landing ship races directly toward the wreck, breaching her hull. She too will sink in less than a minute, creating an artificial barrier for other ships. Even though more ships continue the assault and, despite withering fire, they manage to reach the beach.

Ramps open on its front and Chinese tanks and infantry fighting vehicles begin to roll out, to be immediately greeted by a barrage of American-made Javelin anti-tank missiles. The reactive armor on Chinese tanks attempts to deflect incoming warheads but is largely unsuccessful against one of the world's most sophisticated tank-killing weapons, and the United States has provided thousands to Taiwan in anticipation of this invasion. A dozen miles away, Chinese air assault forces are heading toward the coast in assault helicopters. To avoid air defenses, pilots fly just above the height of the waves in a reckless race to pass the beaches.

The moment they approach land, they are forced to stop to clear trees and buildings, making them easy targets for shoulder-fired air defense weapons. Numerous Chinese helicopters fall from the sky, but many manage to reach their destination: public squares and large parking lots previously designated as air assault zones before the invasion. Chinese troops are rushing to secure defensive positions and coordinate. Your job is to seize key infrastructure along the entire invasion front and put pressure on the defending flanks. Taiwan counterattacks with its mobile reserves, specifically kept out of combat for precisely this reason. At several landing sites, Chinese troops are massacred as they are quickly overwhelmed, but the Chinese air attack manages to hold onto some of their landing zones.

The surviving assault helicopter fleet is already en route to the mainland and amphibious assault ships offshore to pick up more reinforcements. Taiwan controls the beaches, but under intense air strikes it will not be able to defend itself against Chinese troops for long. Hour 6 Somewhere behind the Russian lines, a series of explosions light up the early morning sky. Critical air defense radar is immediately offline. More explosions fifty kilometers away take out a Russian command post. Flying tens of thousands of feet over war-torn Eastern Europe, two American B-2s secretly deployed to Europe return to friendly lines. They have followed a zigzag course toward their targets, always presenting their stealthiest sides to enemy radar.

Russian radar technicians detected intermittent contacts of... something... but were unable to provide a firing solution to the air defenses. However, on the way back to friendly lines, the B-2s are slightly more visible to ground and airborne radars, and several interceptors are oriented at their approximate location. As they close in on the B-2s, their radars struggle to lock on to the quality of the weapons while the B-2s take evasive action and defeat the enemy radar by moving away from it. Still, it's only a matter of time before the Russian Migs have sniffed out the bombers' general location and gotten close enough that no amount of stealth technology can prevent a good jam.

Suddenly, the lead Mig picks up a missile jam warning. Instinctively, he launches his plane into a dive, gaining speed and hoping to mistake the incoming missile for the noise on the ground. There are more warnings across the incoming interceptor fleet as the Migs try to fight. The diving Migs desperately try to outmaneuver or outrun the incoming missiles, but the short detection range spells doom for many of the pilots. One by one, the Migs are shot out of the sky, with some surviving and retreating before the vulnerable B-2s. Somewhere in the dawn sky, a formation of American F-35srolls in to cover the retreat of the B-2.

They are some of the few operational F-35s NATO has in service, and while they are lethal to Russian air defenses, they are too few to significantly disrupt the air war. The B-2s must also be used judiciously, as they are also too few in number to significantly damage Russia's combat capability. Hour 24 One day has passed since the start of World War III. The Sino-Russian alliance has significantly set back NATO in the Baltic States as the United States rushes to withdraw troops on leave and prepares to send reinforcements to Europe. It will take weeks for the United States to be ready for ground operations, even with the world's largest logistics fleet preparing flights to Europe around the clock.

NATO is rushing to assemble a response force in Poland as the Polish military strengthens its defenses on its border with Russia-controlled Ukraine and Kaliningrad. After a day of fierce fighting, NATO is not expected to hold on to its Baltic allies for long, although that was always expected. NATO navies have initiated a series of anti-submarine defenses stretching from Greenland to Iceland and the United Kingdom to help safeguard US troop ships as the first hasty reinforcements begin to be loaded onto ships off the US east coast. US and Gulf. In the Baltic Sea, fierce fighting between NATO ships and the Russian navy has kept Russian naval firepower at bay.

As has happened so many times throughout history, Russia is unable to put its fleets to sea, outnumbered and outgunned by NATO's superior navies. French and Spanish aircraft carriers have entered the Mediterranean and are heading toward the Black Sea, where the Turkish navy has been securing the Bosphorus Strait and isolating it from Russian trade. From the Black Sea, NATO ships can harass Russia's southern flank with long-range missiles and airstrikes, although they face tough defenses based in Crimea. In the Pacific, the US Navy and Air Force have yet to launch a counterattack against Chinese forces. Continued missile attacks have kept the US fleet on the high seas and out of range of launching its own attacks.

Losses continue to mount as Chinese land-based missile attacks seek out American ships and sink or cripple them. However, the number of missiles in China's inventory is rapidly declining. In Taiwan, the first two beach attacks failed, prompting China to call them off. More than five thousand Chinese soldiers lie dead on or near the beaches of northern Taiwan. Chinese airstrikes have met with similar failures, but thanks to fierce air support, two of the landing sites remain under Chinese control. However, it has cost the Chinese air force dearly, with more than 50 aircraft destroyed on the first day of fighting alone.

Across the island, Chinese special forces, secretly inserted on the island before the invasion, have attacked the Taiwanese political and military leadership. Several prominent politicians are detained or dead. Efforts to evacuate senior Taiwanese leaders to the mainland, where they can be used for propaganda purposes, have failed, and Taiwan's president remains beyond the reach of Chinese extermination teams. Instead of allowing Taiwan to recapture officials, Chinese special forces execute them. Hour 48 Tankers have been escorting American fighter jets and bombers across the Pacific non-stop for the past two days. Most U.S. air forces are now stationed at civilian and military airfields across Japan, as Japanese self-defense forces successfully fend off the worst of China's continued but diminished missile attacks.

Losses suffered by American aircraft on the ground remain significant, but there are enough operational aircraft to begin offensive operations. The Chinese fleet has restarted amphibious attacks against Taiwan under the cover of a cruel air campaign. Most of Taiwan's air defenses have already been neutralized, including the majority of the Taiwanese air force. However, as the assault begins, Chinese airborne radar detects a massive air assault by F-15s and F-18s, backed by multiple tankers and EWACS in support. The F-18s were launched from surviving Pacific aircraft carriers and transported to their destination with the support of air tankers.

US Air Force F-15s have been flying for hours from Japanese air bases, accompanied by their Japanese allies. The U.S. and Japanese tanker fleet has remained in orbit around the seas south of Japan, filling out the massive air fleet and ready to help fuel-starved fighters return home. The largest air battle of modern warfare is about to begin. Chinese interceptors move to defend the amphibious assault from air attack from both the north and east. China's lack of aircraft carriers forces fighters to stay close to the coast of Taiwan, exposing them to surviving air defense units, forcing the Chinese to turn on the afterburners and attempt to engage US and Japanese forces. at sea.

There is another reason to try to close the distance as quickly as possible, and it becomes evident when the first missile jam warnings sound in the cockpits of Chinese fighters. Stealthy F-22s and F-35s are leading the assault, launching next-generation long-range air-to-air missiles against Chinese aircraft. The result is dramatic, as Chinese fighters are forced to dive and attempt to deflect American missiles. With two missiles fired at each enemy, many Chinese fighters fail to free themselves from their missiles and are splashed. But stealth fighters have an inherent weakness: They have a very low missile capacity due to the need to carry all weapons internally.

Spent before even making visual contact, the F-22s are forced to turn around, but the F-35s press the attack. Their datalink capabilities allow them to guide the weapons of non-stealth fighters to targets, while keeping vulnerable fourth-generation fighters away from enemy aircraft. Another wave of missiles crosses the sky, guided by F-35s that the Chinese have difficulty detecting on radar. But the Chinese have an improved air-to-air missile with a range of more than 200 miles, and they launch their own broadsides against the Americans and Japanese. They still can't target F-35s, but F-18s and F15s emit massive radar returns and are easy prey for upgraded Chinese missiles.

Friendly planes fall from the sky as the Chinese move within visual range of the attack. F-35s break down immediately, they are not designed for close combat. However, the F-15 and F-18 are. The Chinese J-10, J-16 and Su-30 are good aircraft, but the F-15 Fighter Eagle has proven to be the superior machine in conflicts around the world. For every F-15 shot down, four enemy aircraft are hit. The battle is far from decisive, but American and Japanese attack aircraft are able to penetrate Chinese air cover and deliver devastating blows to the assembled Chinese fleet. Air defenses have difficulty eliminating attacking aircraft thanks to the use of long-range attack munitions.

Missile defenses go to great lengths to defend against attack and are successful with a fatality rate of approximately 60%. However, many Chinese ships are still attacked and sunk or rendered combat ineffective. At the end of the second day of fighting, the United States finally counterattacked in an inconclusive air battle in which both sides suffered heavy losses. However, its fleet of stealthy F-22s and F-35s remains largely intact, but there are fears they are simply too few to carry out the fight. Strikingly, China's Chengdu J-20 has yet to appear on the battlefield. Despite its setback in the air, China has managed to secure a beachhead in Taiwan.

The unloading of the huge Chinese army can now begin, but the Taiwanese resistance is far from broken. In Europe, NATO forces in the Baltic States are exhausted and overwhelmed, with many surrendering to the Russians. It will still take a few days, but Russia is on the verge of recovering the lost Soviet territories. However, the war is far from over and NATO will soon be able to launch massive ground attacks against Russia, starting with Kaliningrad. Hour 72 Fierce fighting rages in major cities in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, but NATO's 40,000-strong response force has been neutralized by Russian forces.

The cost has been high, but with conventional forces largely defeated in the Baltics, the massive Russian war machine is beginning to turn south toward Kaliningrad, which has been decimated by continued missile attacks. The battle for the heart of Europe will begin in a few days, when NATO uses Poland as a staging ground for its counterattack. In the Pacific, American losses to ships and aircraft are heavy, and additional materiel from other US global commands is being rapidly sent to the Pacific. However, Chinese losses are even greater. In a race of attrition, China will ultimately lose; Therefore, it is vital that Taiwan be captured as quickly as possible.

However, US forces have initiated a naval blockade of China, isolating it from its naval trade routes. Sensing an opportunity to seriously weaken its regional rival, India joins the blockade, preventing China from importing the oil and natural gas it desperately needs. There are still land supply routes to Russia, but the sharp drop in supply is causing energy prices to skyrocket. Just as Russia discovered in Ukraine, Taiwanese resistance to hostile invaders is harsh and deadly. Chinese troops fight fierce street battles and civilian militias take up government-provided weapons against the invaders. The Taiwanese people do not want to be part of Xi Jipning's China and are making the People's Liberation Army pay dearly for every inch of Taiwan it occupies.

Hour 168 Images of the horrific cost of the invasion of Taiwan are spreading on Chinese social media. Taiwanese and American cyberwarfare agents have managed to penetrate China's Great Firewall, and now photos and videos of the devastation in Taiwan are spreading faster than Chinese censors can stop them. The Chinese people have been told for generations that a conquest of Taiwan would be easy and bloodless, but the high cost in terms of human lives is now clear to all of China. The Chinese Communist Party has used the state media apparatus to lie about casualty figures, reporting only a handful of victims each day in hopes of keeping public outrage down.

Anger and indignation grow rapidly. In Europe, NATO's second response force has engaged Russian forces along the Polish border. Russian air defense batteries have been greatly worn out by continuous attacks against them, but the cost has been high for European air force pilots. American stealth aircraft are badly needed in the Pacific, and the task of suppressing Russian air defenses falls to the largely non-stealthy European air force. The outcome of World War III will be decided in Poland and Taiwan. Hour 336 Two weeks after the start of World War III, the momentum of the Russian war machine has begun to stall in light of the tough and well-organized resistance of NATO forces.

The invasion of Ukraine has shown that the much-feared Russian military giant is a clumsy giant, defeated more by its own ineptitude than by foreign military power. While Western armies place a strong emphasis on logistics, the Russian military forces have approximately 25% of the logistics personnel of NATO armies. This means massive convoys of Russian vehicles stuck on the sides of roads and highways, deprived of fuel and ammunition. Russian troops, especially their conscript force, are suffering catastrophically low morale as they come under fire from NATO's advanced weapons systems. Surrenders of entire units are becoming more common and the high number of casualties is causing massive political dissent at home.

Heavy-handed police tactics against anti-war protesters can barely stem the tide of discontent sweeping through Russia, and Vladimir Putin's grip on power grows more tenuous by the day. While the Russian attack has not been repelled, it has been stopped just inside Poland's borders. The arrival of large US military units on the continent marks the start of NATO offensive operations, and the future looks bleak for a Russian military suffering from poor equipment, low morale and terrible logistics. However, the Russian air force continues to perform well, although equipment and maintenance shortages have also begun to affect it. Slowly but surely, NATO's European air forces have wrested control of theskies to Russia, and for the next day Russian frontline units will be exposed to the full wrath of NATO air support.

In the Pacific, China has maintained its control over the western half of Taiwan, but at a staggering cost. More than 15,000 Chinese soldiers are dead or wounded, but the Chinese Communist Party works hard to keep these numbers hidden from an increasingly angry Chinese public. They were promised a quick victory over the small island and that the United States could be defeated in the Pacific with China's advanced missiles and aircraft. None of these things have proven to be true, and while the United States has suffered massive losses of ships and aircraft, it is able to replenish losses faster than the Chinese navy and air force.

Taiwan's defenders have so far repelled China's attempts to advance east of the island, and now US Marines are arriving in force. Much to the world's surprise, the US Marines are backed by Japanese troops, who have revoked their pacifist constitution in the name of regional defense against an aggressive China. But it is not just the Japanese joining the US in the defense of Taiwan, as the Australians joining the US in the defense of the Pacific. China, alone in the region without friends, now faces the monumental task of defeating three great powers simultaneously. As losses mount for the Sino-Russian alliance, Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin consider their last option.

Nuclear power is the great equalizer and the only way Russia can overcome NATO's superiority over its own military forces. But for every attack Russia or China can undertake, NATO will respond with two in an escalation that will end the world in ashes. Thanks again to our sponsor Conflict of Nations, the free online pvp strategy game set in a modern global war! Get a special gift of 13,000 gold and one month of free premium subscription using the link. It's only available for 30 days, so don't wait, choose your country and start fighting your way to victory right now! Now go see: Could Taiwan resist a Chinese invasion?

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