Category Archives: Command Scenario
The Two Yemeni Air Forces
April 2, 2015, scenario. The Yemeni government faces mundane no-confidence challenges that nonetheless undermine its authority, and a coup is feared. US drone strikes, with the inevitable civilian casualties, are angering the population, and the Americans are moving ever-stronger forces into the area, assuming a total collapse is imminent. Enter the unnamed and fictional defense […]
The Scenario Adaptation Balancing Act
I’m reading an alternate history story, Zhirinovsky’s Russian Empire, a dystopian tale where the death of Boris Yeltsin during the failed 1991 coup in the USSR leads to the titular extremist becoming that country’s head, and thus leading the world into over a decade of not-so-cold war. There are some parts of it where I […]
Unintended Rapid Raptor Deployment
The Air Force has recently began training for so-called “Rapid Raptor” deployments-plans to move a small unit of their deadliest fighters to any dangerous area very quickly. While I might have heard the Rapid Raptor name, until recently it wasn’t in my mind. That is, except when I made a scenario where just that occurs. […]
The Kuril Islands War that Wasn’t-How Scenarios Stall
Late 1993. Russia’s eyes are focused on the showdown between Yeltsin and the parliament, the crisis that would end the country’s experiment with democracy almost as soon as it began. But in the Far East, a seemingly long-defeated adversary hopes to take advantage of it… Fleets of ships and aircraft rush from Hokkaido and strike […]
Crimean War Episodes: Operation Tiger Rifle
Download scenario! Watch scenario gameplay! ATTN: Commanding Officer, EUCOM You are instructed to initiate OPERATION TIGER RIFLE. Your control center is airborne, aboard a E-8C JSTARS of the 116th Air Control Wing. INTEL/SITREP The Russian Federation has taken Crimea by force and within 48 hours a major NATO assault is planned. You must clear the way […]