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I may have come to this forum in the past looking for answers in relation to the novel I am still writing - "Hazardous", a sci-fi/fantasy military story (very Tom Clancy/Halo-inspired) set in a near-future, contemporary setting - a novel about a theoretical scenario where due to a series of events the US falls from grace as the preeminent military force on Earth.
It is the dawn of WWIII and Italy has been suspended from NATO due to military cooperation with a militant, Ultranationalist Russia. Before it is discovered that Italy is doing this, 3 of America's nukes on loan to NATO nations go missing. One week later, Colorado Springs, Tyndall Air Base and McChord Field are nuked, and NORAD goes dark. Two days earlier, Italy was barred from NATO and began coordinating with Russian intelligence. The day prior, Italy brought the Veneto Helicopter cruiser out of retirement. Not but a few hours after the bombings, the entire Italian fleet shows up at Naval Base Norfolk - where HALF of the US fleet is docked - and attacks. Italian surface units missile and destroy the AA assets, and thereafter an air-strike initiated by nearly all of Italy's air power bombs and destroys the 5 supercarriers in dry-dock along with the rest of the ships.
An idea I had was that one of the decommissioned Nimitz-class supercarriers was sold to Italy during her tenure with NATO about a decade earlier (in the 2020's), along with another two or three carrier museums and the USS Texas to pay off US debt. With a handful of aircraft carriers of US strength, and the most powerful dreadnought of the US fleet (not to mention the subsequent destruction of NORAD, almost half of the US fleet) the Italians would effectively be yanking our proverbial feet out from under us, bringing us down to their level of capability and pummeling us for the rest of the conflict, along with Russia and China. Obviously you can't have a compelling narrative where the protagonist faction is nigh-unstoppable and going around winning all the time, so I came up with this somewhat-hamfisted account of how the U.S. Armed Forces, in a sense, have their backs pushed up against the wall by a military force many times their greater. Question is though: would it work and make sense (from a literary/Tom Clancy-ish perspective)?
It is the dawn of WWIII and Italy has been suspended from NATO due to military cooperation with a militant, Ultranationalist Russia. Before it is discovered that Italy is doing this, 3 of America's nukes on loan to NATO nations go missing. One week later, Colorado Springs, Tyndall Air Base and McChord Field are nuked, and NORAD goes dark. Two days earlier, Italy was barred from NATO and began coordinating with Russian intelligence. The day prior, Italy brought the Veneto Helicopter cruiser out of retirement. Not but a few hours after the bombings, the entire Italian fleet shows up at Naval Base Norfolk - where HALF of the US fleet is docked - and attacks. Italian surface units missile and destroy the AA assets, and thereafter an air-strike initiated by nearly all of Italy's air power bombs and destroys the 5 supercarriers in dry-dock along with the rest of the ships.
An idea I had was that one of the decommissioned Nimitz-class supercarriers was sold to Italy during her tenure with NATO about a decade earlier (in the 2020's), along with another two or three carrier museums and the USS Texas to pay off US debt. With a handful of aircraft carriers of US strength, and the most powerful dreadnought of the US fleet (not to mention the subsequent destruction of NORAD, almost half of the US fleet) the Italians would effectively be yanking our proverbial feet out from under us, bringing us down to their level of capability and pummeling us for the rest of the conflict, along with Russia and China. Obviously you can't have a compelling narrative where the protagonist faction is nigh-unstoppable and going around winning all the time, so I came up with this somewhat-hamfisted account of how the U.S. Armed Forces, in a sense, have their backs pushed up against the wall by a military force many times their greater. Question is though: would it work and make sense (from a literary/Tom Clancy-ish perspective)?