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Case Amber An Alternate History in a Tense Retrofuture

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Synopsis The year is 2062. The world has been in a tense standoff for the past 115 years. Since the end of the Pacific War, Asia has been divided between the imperfectly democratic southern Republic of China supported by the United States and the communist northern People's Republic of China supported by the Soviet Union. Europe is also held in suspense. Decolonization of the Far East hit Britain hard, exacerbated by American policy and their withdrawal from European politics. France is holding onto its North African territories for dear life as the Constellation of Southern African States prosper. They remain weary of the Weimar Republic, who has feigned good faith in the past but still harbors revanchist sentiments, and the Soviets, who have been steadily picking away at the old Russian Empire. Perplexingly, the world experienced 1950s aesthetics and decided, "Yeah, this is it." Salad in jello is all the rage, airplanes have shinny metallic skin, and portable nuclear weapons are in service with the world's armies. Space is heavily militarized and nations are pushing out into the solar system and beyond. Spaceships are Air Force-coded though (the Navies the world over lost the fight for nuclear supermarines in space).

Featured Article War Plan Amber was one of the color-coded war plans drafted during the interwar by the United States. It dealt with a potential war with Japan as a back-up to War Plan Orange, formented by the early events of the Second Sino-Japanese War and a formalization of Anglo-American alignment in the region. Its core tenet was a land war against Japan in Southern China via the British Raj and Burma, with U.S. naval forces in the East Pacific (i.e. Hawaii and the United States) on the strategic defensive until naval production could be ramped up. The plan assumed early defeats at the hands of the IJN had attrited the U.S. Navy to the point that it could not conduct offensive naval operations in the Central or South Pacific Areas until disparities in naval superiority had been rectified. It also assumed that the British would be an ally of the United States in a war against Japan. Read more...

Featured Media The Lockheed OCP-11 Starfire II is a heavy space fighter operated by the U.S. Air Force, as featured in a Bazza's Sinowatch cassette. The DuPont UV-19D Petrel is a VSTOL transport aircraft operated by the U.S. Marine Corps. A U.S. Army Arctic Staff Car modified with snow skis and rubber tracks for operations in the far north. The M66 Tight End is a hovering laser antiaircraft artillery mount fielded by the U.S. Army for very short-range air defense. The organization of the U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division during Exercise Reforc '62. The Boarhound PIC-W is a British Army armored personnel carrier capable of carrying 6 power armor suits externally.

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