Note: Just a little fiction...not to be taken seriously...just a flight of fancy and an effort to push forward on another hobby...relax, enjoy the ride and don't pick it apart...
Back on the island...
Major Johnson was peering over the top of his foxhole. He couldn't believe this shit. He was leading a USMC Company Landing Team in its first real test and he was reverted back to being mud Marine. All the high tech goodies had failed him and he/his men had gone back to using entrenching tools to dig in and hold on. They had seen a few Chinese scouts but they had been easily repulsed. For the life of him he couldn't figure out what was going on. Why hadn't they hit him with everything they had? From all appearances they had destroyed the MV-22's that inserted them and when comms was up...for a little while...he could hear the trouble that the America had run into. More than likely she was resting on the oceans floor. Simcock was right. This was a fight that he hadn't properly prepared for. If he lived through this mess he would never take intel at face value again....he would do the Marine Corps thing like his Gunny told him in boot camp instead of trying to be the "innovative" leader that they pounded into him once he went Mustang. Still. Better to not let his men know exactly how screwed they were...not yet anyway.
Chinese Assault Force inbound...
Colonel Yen was livid. The time had finally come to teach these imperialistic, arrogant American bastards the lesson that they weren't God's gift and he's being held back by the Defense Committee? The Air and Naval forces were set loose to create mayhem among US forces and he has a nice, fat, juicy, under armed Marine Landing Team sitting on an island just waiting to be obliterated and they hold him back? WHAT THE FUCK!!!!! Even worse, the orders that he had been given were not only wasteful of his men's lives but would achieve nothing other than to fill body bags with the sons of China's mothers. What are they thinking????
The island....
Major Johnson has his forces on 50% watch for the foreseeable. Morale is still high and his Marines can't wait to spill a little Chinese blood on the sands of this newest piece of US property. If a Marine stands on the ground then that land belongs to the US! Fuck politically correct theory. We fight on it, we own it. The politicians can play games but here and now? They might as well be invading Birmingham, Alabama as far as he was concerned. Corporal Taylor notifies him that rubber raiding craft were seen inbound at a high rate of speed.
Finally. We can get this started. Face to face is how they want it? Good. We'll give better than we get and China will learn not to fuck with America's finest....they might not live thru this but the Chinese will know that they've been fighting the devils own. They will suffer and we will be the instrument of that suffering.
Chinese Assault Force landing troops....
Capt Chang was chosen to lead this assault but he couldn't figure out the thinking. Instead of assaulting with a force of ZBD-05's and easily crushing these US Marines, he was instead heading toward them in rubber craft. Additionally he only had with him 100 men. Even worse they had no heavy weapons....
CNN..
The Chinese govt contacted CNN and told them that the over reaction in the Pacific was not intentional and that they were seeking to rectify the issue. Additionally they invited them, along with every other news media outfit in the Pacific to visit the command center and watch relief efforts that were being mounted to rescue STRANDED US MARINES on the island.
The island...
Major Johnson had his forces assembled in text book manner. The assaulting force would be caught in interlocking fields of fire and his mortar section had already indexed the expected landing site. The first boat touched the beach and the order was issued. The Chinese didn't stand a chance. They were obliterated. Microfragmented. It was a slaughter. Johnson didn't know it but he had walked into a ruthlessly, well sprung trap.
CNN...
The Chinese put on a great show. They showed the media a live coverage of their Chinese Marines landing to deliver food and water to the US Marines. They highlighted that they were broadcasting in the clear...in the English language that the US forces were not being targeted that the landing force was bringing supplies and that they should prepare to be picked up by a third party nation so that they could be returned to the US unharmed. Chinese leadership failed to mention that they were actively jamming communications on the island. Additionally Russia was already sending one of their new LHDs to transport the Marines back to Okinawa...another event that was covered by the media. Not one defense reporter asked hard questions like how could this ship suddenly be available for action in the Pacific so quickly when just a few weeks ago it had been operating in the Atlantic with their Northern fleet. It was a well laid plan and the world bought it hook line and sinker.
National Command Authority, USA...
Everything was frozen. The problem wasn't information. They had all the info in the world. The problem was in making a decision. Everyone had a position and President Hillary Clinton was vacillating. The USMC teaches that making a good decision late is a bad decision. Additionally not making a decision is the same as doing nothing. The President of the United States was overcome. Psychologist call it "paralysis by analysis". And with that the weakness of situational awareness became apparent. Even if you have all the info, in the end you have to make a decision...and good decisions boil down to having the moral courage to do the right thing. Moral courage was lacking in Washington.
Target Guam...
Major General Adams commanded the sprawling installation on Guam. Two weeks ago he had welcomed aboard 10 B-2 and another 20 B-52. A formidable force. Just like everyone else he was monitoring the fighting and had put his base on full alert. Alert was relative. The NCA didn't want any OVERT preparations. He could move aircraft to a couple of the hardened shelter that had been built but there weren't enough to protect the force on base now. He had the F-15C squadron flying cap but things were unusually quiet around the island. No activity whatsoever. That changed in a heartbeat. The klaxon sounded and all hell broke loose.
Chinese IRBM launch facility...
Colonel Hai laughed quietly to himself. He would knock the US defense to its knees, its strategic defenses!....the funny thing is that his name means "from the sea". The hell he would unleash would be coming from low earth orbit. 50 DF-21C's were on their way to the American base on Guam. While they didn't carry nuclear warheads, the conventional punch would be awe inspiring. The Americans wouldn't forget his name in a 1000 years.
Guam...
The alert came too late to do any good. Many US Marines and Soldiers have experienced mortar and rocket attacks. Its a rather unpleasant thing. No one had experienced an IRBM attack. 50 rockets that land time on target on one base? They didn't use nukes but that might have been more merciful. When each rocket landed it dug a crater 100 feet wide, 10 feet deep and obliterated everything in its path. Suffice it to say that the USAF bomber command was reduced to nuclear deterrence. They would sit out the rest of the fight with China....unless things went nuclear.
More to come...Round One is over....Round Two will be even bloodier....Enter the 3rd MARDIV (Reinf), 82nd Airborne, Special Forces Group, MARSOC (Regiment sized for a raid from hell) and Nuclear Attack Subs...
