Alright, I was a bit POed when I wrote that, I apologize for being an arrogant little dick.
But no Ack-Ack, I do not think that. Plan of Attack is a simulated attack on the USA by the Russian Federation using aircraft. While I do not take a work of fiction as fact, this book talks about the US Air defence. Of course Dreamland and so on is fiction, but POA deals mostly with conventional warfare teqniques such as Strat and Tac bombing. The theoretical premis is that the Northern US air defence has not been maintained and that the Russians use that as a window to attack.
Now while this is fiction it illustrates the fact that since the end of the cold war the US military has not been kept up to its original standards. Flyable storage is more common among airforce aircraft and US Military man power has slipped below a World War fighting force. If Russia was to launch a huge suprise attack across Canada and the northern areas of the US its airdefences would take too long to mobilize. The Russian Military is still a large powerful force despite the end of the Cold War to keep its shattered union in a rough state of order, and now with new advances in Tech and increase in funding it is rapidly becoming a match for the US military.
It would not take much of Russia's HUGE natural and economic resources to reactivate all the old gear they have and spruce it up to combat readiness. This poses a major problem, as the Russian ground forces could overwhelm the small armies of Germany, Poland, Ukraine. The real resistance would start when France, Britain and the US enter the theatre. it is more than likely that to preserve their interests China would side with Russia and launch a pacific campaign similar to that of Japan. forcing us to fight on two fronts. This would cause a massive destabilization and we would be overrun.
Russia and China have more people and more equipment. In a conventional war this will ultimately win over prudent tactics unless of course we use WMD's. And in response Russia can deploy enough Nuclear firepower to wipe out every NATO and US, military and civillian target.
Now Naval superioritywould cetrainly be in the hand s of the Coalition, The Royal Navy and the US navy have enough ships and firepiower to stand off the rest of the world. But with Chinas entry that could be a stretch to hold.
My point is it would be a stalemate war of attrition. Which Russia and China will win over long term. Like the Allies in WW1. So Nuclear war is an inevitability.
