So as the backdrop and genesis for my novel, World War III is occurring. It would only be a couple years from now (about 2014) so international relations and technology won't have changed too much. What I need help on is making sure that my ideas on how they work are realistic and possible, don't leave anything important out, make mistakes, etc. Below is a summary of what I've planned out.
North Korea launches an attack on South Korea. The U.S., South Korea, France, Russia, U.K., Japan (who reveals its new military and that it is now a nuclear power), China (who broke ties with their ally) , and other U.N. allies mount an overwhelming offensive against the North. But the mountainous terrain proves inhospitable and the Allies suffer heavy losses. Meanwhile, Russia, who's been suffering severe attacks from Chechnya and the (separatist country defeated and reinstated into Russia in late 90s) region, both of Muslim majority. After strained U.S. and NATO relations with Russia, (specifics not decided, this is one of the things I'd like help on) and the near revival of the Cold War, Russia plans to topple the world empire America. They launch an ICBM strike on Mecca, completely obliterating it. But the missiles are disguises as Israeli Jericho-IIIs. The Muslim world rises up in arms and for the first time in ninety years they are united by a single man, the caliph, into the world's biggest country, stretching from Mozambique to Kazakhstan and with a population of 1.8 billion. The country is called Ummah. War begins everywhere and Israel is swamped, utterly crushed by Ummah even with assistance pouring in from the U.S. And U.N. America, known as a close ally to Israel, also suffers. Even in the homeland of America where a civil war breaks out. There are three factions, the Muslims, the ultra patriot militias, and the Military, all fighting for control. There is attack on American soil which rivals 9/11, a terrifying human-engineered disease is released in Washington D.C.‘s water supply, killing thousands. It is never discovered whether it was the ultra patriots or the Muslims. Islamaphobia reaches record heights and concentration camps for Muslims are erected, as well as mass killings. Meanwhile Africa is plunged into horrible war as non-Muslim regions fight for independence and genocide begins in Indonesia as the Muslims start to exterminate the Christians and Hindus. Muslim militias invade Indian and the India-Pakistan conflict finally reaches the boiling point and both countries are pulverized by nuclear missiles. The U.N. is unable to intervene in time, their focus thrown off-kilter by the recent war. America eventually discovers that Russia was behind the missile strike and reveals this to the world. Ummah responds in kind and Russia bears the full brunt of their hatred. Bio-warfare becomes rampant around Russia and the Middle East, as all sides resort to tactics that were once reviled. Millions die, most of them civilians. South Africa begins to shake under the turbulence that the rest of Africa is suffering and a small but incredibly vocal minority arises to bring back the apartheid, lead by Mathias Grønkjær, an ex-National Intelligence Service agent. He manages to rally his supporters and a violent civil war breaks out as Grønkjær attempts to reinstate the apartheid regime. South Korea begins to fall to the North as America, U.N., Russia, and China move to respond to the Ummah threat. The civil war in America winds down, but south of the border more problems arise. Mexico, long ravaged by brutal drug violence, finally falls to the drug cartels and the reemergence of the Jaguares Cartel. (A cartel that existed in my universe but was mostly disbanded in 2009.) Utilizing a strategy that is not built completely on brute force, they infiltrate the government and bring it down from the inside in a long term strategy that had been in place since the 80s. Mexico becomes completely ruled by the Jaguares, any and all resistance brutally squashed before it can form. Mexico’s influence begins spreading throughout the rest of of South America. The U.S.-Mexico border is heavily militarized and people of Latin descent face persecution similar to that which the Muslims had already faced. Drugs are spread throughout the world, especially America, rotting countries from the inside out. In the rest of the world, the biggest war the world has ever seen still rages. Because of the use of nuclear weapons in the war, World War III was given another name. The Nuclear War.
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