The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace. Chung Mong-joonSouth Korean businessman and politician.
It was even apparent that Mutual Assured Destruction was not enough to keep those at the controls from launching nuclear weapons, each warhead many hundreds of times more powerful than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. However such was not enough to wipe out either the USA or Russia or China. Certainly they would be hurting badly for quite some time. But neither side was accurate enough to bring any of the world powers to their knees. Putin was vaporized as was the leader of the free world and his cabinet. And thus the Russian surrogate leadership and the Chinese had linked arms to bring a new Sino-Russia Co-Prosperity Pact into fruition. And while the American leadership was in disarray, they had struck first, landing a group of coalition troops on American soil.
With that aggressive move, Post-nuclear conflict was inevitable. Essentially it was much like two weary boxers going at each other having pounded each other into a bleeding pulp and still refusing to give up.
The night was chill and there was a threat of snow in the forecast. However the Spetznaz and Chinese Special Forces group that had established a beach-head and a base on the coastal city of Sunset Valley were inured to the cold.
The daytime temperatures were warmer as more LCS brought anti-aircraft missile systems and a T-90 tank for the group. And the camaraderie between the Spetznaz and the Chinese Special Forces grew as they knew that they would be going into battle together.
It was a new area for the Spetznaz and the Chinese Special Operations Force and new terrain to negotiate. However military hardware and weaponry would certainly help in keeping the opposition from gaining an advantage. If they needed to they could have Su-25s bombard the ridge-line and keep their opponents heads down while they advanced. From what Sergeant Zhang could see, the opposition had absolutely no anti-aircraft defences and very little in the way of tanks if any. This meant that the Russians and Chinese could steamroll their opponent's defences.
But the effectiveness of the fighting force would be attributed to how well the two groups of men got along together. If they could not solve their differences the fractious attitudes would translate into defeat on the battlefield. So Zhang and his contemporary on the Soviet Spetznaz would have to gauge how well their group would perform. And in doing so, they decided that the best tactic would be a wait and see. He was taking a risk in doing so, as his superiors, the officers that he reported to, would be watching him carefully.
It might have been a rather cautious move to take with the men, but frankly, the fortunes of war rested on the backs of the men who fought it. And it was whether or not the men worked together as a team that determined the outcome of a battle.
Military equipment was secured with artillery shells and other items of importance including demolition warheads, which were much like the nuclear demolition charges that the US had in their arsenal (SADMs - Special Atomic Demolition Munitions). They would be used to breach any hardened area, such as one particular bunker in question, should the Americans not cooperate.
...and of course, the Russians and Chinese had air-superiority over the area with Mig 29s flying combat air patrol over their region of influence.
For all they knew the Americans weren't even there and they could potentially be assaulting an empty bunker, Zhang thought. "Perhaps...but not likely..."
“...why will men fight and suffer to advance the interests of their masters, who fling them aside when they have no further use for them?” ― Arthur Findlay
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