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The background to
Crackup, the modern war rules I am designing with John Treadaway are starting to come together. The rules will be usable for any modern war scenario but it is helpful to have a timeline into the near future to give
Crackup its own flavour.
Please feel free to add your own suggestions below.
Timeline – early 21st Century
2000: The Real
IRA, a regrouped Catholic terror organisations initiates new wave of bombings
in London.
2001: Dot Com
financial bubble collapse
2001:
Western-trained Islamic radicals from al-Qaeda, a Saudi Arabian-backed
terrorist organisation, attack New York and other targets in the USA causing
multiple deaths.
2002: Nato invades
Afghanistan and drives al-Qaeda into Pakistan.
2003: Afghan
Tailban start major counterinsurgency in Afghanistan operating from safe
refuges in Pakistan protected by Pakistan’s ISI.
2003: Anglic
forces led by the USA invade Iraq.
2005: Islamic
terrorists bomb London.
2007: American
property bubble collapse followed by London and New York banking crisis.
2008:
Intensification of American drone attacks in Pakistan.
2011: American
troops leave Iraq.
2014: American
troops leave Afghanistan.
2015:
Franco-German Brigade (Brigade Franco-Allemande, Deutsch-Französische Brigade)
sent into Greece to keep order by Eurocorps.
2015: American
troops sent into Mexico to assist Mexican army against the drug gangs.
2016: Taliban
re-occupy Afghanistan.
2016: Scotland
votes for independence causing the breakup of the United Kingdom.
2017: Iran and
Shia government in Iraq sign mutual defence pact.
2017: England
& Wales vote to leave the European Union.
2017: Georgia
invades Caucuses to secure oil; war spreads to include Ukraine and Russian
Federation.
2018: Turkey
invades northern Iraq to suppress Kurdish terrorism.
2018: China sends
troops into various African countries to protect their mining interests.
2019: Taliban take
power in Pakistan and Chechnya before collapsing into clan warfare.
2019: France
deploys troops in Kent to secure Channel Tunnel initiating mechanised warfare
across Kent, Sussex and Essex.
2019: Scots attack
Northern England and Ireland invades Free Ulster causing general fighting
across the British Isles.
2020: War declared
between Turkey backed by Sunni oil states and Iran-Iraq alliance.
2020: Pakistani
Taliban invade Kashmir and explode nuclear weapon in Mumbai.
2021: World first
Nuclear War destroys Pakistan and many Indian cities destroying central
governments on the sub-continent.
2021: Iran closes
the Straits of Hormuz precipitating oil and economic crisis. American carrier
is sunk attempting to force the Strait.
2022: Chinese
economic bubble collapses precipitating civil wars between Communist Party
controlled coast and various Marxist and Nationalist warlords in the interior,
including nuclear weapon strikes.
2023: Lega Nord
declares UDI from Italy and European Union for Padania.
2023: Violent
storms flood New York and American East Coast
2023: Wessex New
Model Army clashes with British army in Surrey; Reigate destroyed in the
fighting with heavy civilian casualties.
2024:
Overstretched Eurocorps battles independence movements in British Isles,
Belgium, Northern Germany, Southern France and the Balkans, which are often
backed by National armies.
2024: General
Glutenburger wins US Presidential election for Republican Party campaigning on
a platform of moral purification of America and declares storms to be a
judgement from God and not Global Warming.
2025: New Model
Army concept spreads across world with mixed results but always chaos follows
in their wake.
2026: Mexican war
spills over into southern US states as drug cartel mercenary units declare war
on the USA.
2027: Glutenburger
cancels upcoming election, bans political parties, mounts a nuclear strike on
Mexico City, and declares America one nation under God.
2028: Glutenburger
assassinated by Mexican Mictecacihuatl (Lady of Death) Drug Cartel.
2029: Northern US
cities rebel with military support from Canada; Quebec succeeds.
2029: Russian and
North American crop failures due to freak weather conditions: mass starvation.
2030: National and
civil wars break into smaller and smaller ethnic conflicts across the globe;
New Model armies collapse into mercenary militias as electronic communications
degrade away.
