20,000-plus artillery pieces behind Ural mountains to avoid
destruction under CEF treaty.... Some 20% of Soviet draftees in autumn
1990 call-up failed to show up.... prices on food and consumer goods
double/triple in one jump; effect mitigated - few goods available anyway.
NEW YORK TIMES - Thursday - August 1, 1991
page one headlines
BUSH AND GORBACHEV SIGN PACT TO CURTAIL NUCLEAR ARSENALS; JOIN IN CALL FOR
MIDEAST TALKS
page A3
CROATIA OFFERS PEACE PLAN TO SERB REBELS - dateline July 31 Zagreb - In
an effort to avert all-out civil war, the Yugoslav republic of Croatia has
drawn UP a peace plan offering its Serb minority key concessions it had
sought, including home rule, control over the local police and greater
political power..... it remained unclear whether the Serb rebels, who have
steadily wrested territory from the Croatian forces in recent weeks would
accept the deal. "They expect to win on the battlefield ... they won't
accept any negotiation."..... The more outspoken Serbs in Croatia and the
Serb republic have said they will accept nothing less than a redrawing of
Yugoslavia's borders. .... Croatia's peace efforts come against the
backdrop of a Serb offensive particularly in the Krajina region. In the
last two weeks, Croatian defenders have been forced to relinquish village
after village to the Serb guerrillas...
EUROPEANS TRY TO EASE CROATIA CRISIS - dateline July 31 Paris - Having
helped negotiate a cease-fire in Slovenia this month, the European
Community now hopes to bring an end to the fighting in Croatia without
having to assume the risks of sending a peace keeping mission to
Yugoslavia. Many European officials believe that even if Yugoslavia
sought an international peacekeeping force, the Soviet Union might block
such a move for fear of setting a precedent of foreign involvement at a
time when it is wrestling with it's own rebel republics from the Baltic to
the Ukraine
page A8
GUNMAN KILL 6 LITHUANIAN BORDER GUARDS - dateline July 31 Vilnius - Six
Lithuanian border guards were killed today and two were critically wounded
in a machine gun attack on a customs post near the breakaway republic's
border with Soviet Byelorussia.... The Lithuanian authorities said the
identity of the attackers was not known. The customs stations, symbols of
Lithuania's claim to independence from the Soviet Union, have been
frequent targets of violent raids by Soviet troops and "black beret"
police units loyal to Moscow. Soviet Union's TASS announced that the USSR
will not sit idle while any foreign intervention of forces in it's sphere
of influence... this in the European announcement of intentions to send
forces to Yugoslavia to help bring peace. Swift and severe consequences
will befall any forces into their regions!
NEW YORK TIMES - Wednesday - August 7, 1991
page one headlines -
ARAFAT SAYS HE MUST PICK PALESTINIAN DELEGATION
page A3
EUROPEANS PRESS FOR YUGOSLAV SETTLEMENT - Dateline August 6 The Hague -
Fearful that Yugoslavia's violent ethnic conflict could reverberate well
beyond it's borders, foreign ministers of the European Community called
today for wider international pressure to bring peace to the troubled
Balkan nation... while France and other community members urged that a
Western European buffer force be sent to separate the warring Yugoslav
factions.... Some European officials fear that since many people of
Hungarian and Albanian descent live in Yugoslavia, a full scale war could
spread to other nations as they seek to protect their minorities in
Yugoslavia.... A British official said that the security council might
explore ways to intervene if the fighting intensifies and threatens other
nations.
NEW YORK TIMES - Thursday - August 8, 1991
page one headlines -
ALLIES SAY IRAQ IS SCAVENGING MUNITIONS IN KUWAIT
FRAGILE TRUCE IN YUGOSLAVIA - THE FIGHTING WANES, BUT HATREDS SMOLDER
12 DIE AS THOUSANDS TRY TO FLEE ALBANIA
page A8
KOHL THREATENS SERBIA OVER CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS Dateline August 7 Berlin
- As domestic pressure mounted for full recognition of Yugoslavia's break
away republics, Chancellor Helmut Kohl threatened Serbia today with
economic sanctions and acceptance of the independence of Croatia and
Slovenia if cease-fire violations continue.
SHAKY YUGOSLAV TRUCE - diplomatic silence suggests that no one in Zagreb
or elsewhere is ready to solve Yugoslav quarrels.
page A12
TURKS ATTACK SEPARATIST KURDS IN NORTH IRAQ
IRAQIS SAID TO RETRIEVE ARMS IN KUWAIT - Dateline August 7 Kuwait City -
The Iraqi military, in violation of the cease-fire agreement, has made
several night raids into Kuwait to retrieve stockpiles, including Silkworm
missiles, left behind during their retreat, allied officials here say.
NEW YORK TIMES - Friday - August 9, 1991
page A3
BANKRUPTCY SEEN THREATENING THE SOVIET PARTY
ITALY MOVES TO STEM WAVE OF ALBANIANS - Another huge wave of Albanian
migrants washed onto Italy's Adriatic shores on Thursday seeking economic
haven, but instead finding edgy police officers and a hard-line Government
determined to send them back home. The police opened fire in clashes with
the emigres...
page A5
YUGOSLAVIA AGREES TO MORE TRUCE OBSERVERS - Dateline August 8 Prague -
Yugoslavia agreed today to accept new international observers to help
monitor the fragile cease-fire that went into effect on Wednesday morning.
CROAT REJECTS SERB DEMANDS - Dateline August 8 Belgrade - A senior
official in the republic of croatia today flatly rejected the major
demands of the Serbian rebels as the tenuous cease-fire in the fighting
here was breached by the death of Croatian national guardsman....
According to Croatian accounts, one guardsman was killed today and three
were wounded when motor fire struck their positions near the village of
Gredjani, south of Zegreb.
AMERICANS ADVISED TO LEAVE - Dateline August 8 Washington - The State
Department issued a travel advisory today urging Americans citizens to
leave the breakaway republics of Croatia and Slovenia as soon as possible.
NEW YORK TIMES - Tuesday - August 13, 1991
page A5
U.N. USING U.S. SPY PLANES TO MONITOR IRAQI ARMS
page A6
YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC FEARS IT COULD BECOME PAWN - Dateline August 10 Sarajevo
- If all out civil war breaks out in Yugoslavia, the republic of Bosnia
and Herzegovinia would lie squarely in its path, a victim of its volatile
ethnic mix of Serbs, Croats and Muslims.
PRISONER EXCHANGE FAILS Dateline August 13 Belgrade - Serbs and Croats
failed to make a planned exchange of 70 prisoners today, and Croatia
blocked Yugoslav federal efforts to deploy cease-fire observers on it's
territory.
NEW YORK NEWSDAY - Monday - August 19, 1991
page one headlines
TASS REPORT: Gory OUT - VEEP TAKES OVER, DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY
NEW YORK NEWSDAY - Wednesday - August 21, 1991
page one headlines
YELSTIN SUPPORTERS, TANKS SKIRMISH DEFIANT LEADER DIGS IN AGAINST
POSSIBLE MOSCOW ATTACK BY COUP FORCES
page 4-5
3 DIE IN SKIRMISH AT YELSTIN STRONGHOLD - With anti-government
demonstrators in the streets of several soviet cities and the hard liners
who overthrew Mikhail Gorbachev rumored in disarray, Red Army soldiers
reportedly killed at least three dissidents early today outside Moscow
stronghold of reformer Boris Yelstin.
page 23
PROGRESS IN YUGO TALKS - The quarreling leaders of Yugoslavia reached an
agreement in principle yesterday to continue talks on the country's future
as violence broke out anew in strife-torn Croatia and at least 10 people
were reported killed. .... Early yesterday, Serbian guerrillas and the
Yugoslav federal army, in their boldest attack since ethnic war broke out
eight weeks ago in Croatia, bombarded the breakaway republic's fourth
largest city with motor shells.
NEW YORK TIMES - Thursday - August 22, 1991
page one headlines
GORBACHEV BACK AS COUP FAILS, BUT YELSTIN GAINS NEW POWER
page A5
RIVALS TO ALLOW YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT TO FUNCTION - Dateline August 21 -
Belgrade -- Gunfights erupted in the Yugoslav republics of Croatia again
today as the country's leaders agreed for the first time to provide
temporarily for the survival of the federal Government.... Rebel Serbs,
reportedly with Yugoslav Army support, occupied the eastern Croatian
panhandle... Fierce fighting has been reported almost daily ... Yugoslav
Air Force jets this morning strafed the village of Sarvas.... Gun battles
and motor attacks were also rep[reported in Pakrac, Topusko, Darovar and
other towns.... The Serbs in Croatia are in effect redrawing those borders
with each advance they make.
NEW YORK TIMES - Saturday - August 24, 1991
page one headlines
YELSTIN IS ROUTING COMMUNIST PARTY FROM KEY ROLES THROUGHOUT RUSSIA; HE
FORCES VAST GORBACHEV SHAKE-UP
page A3
PHOTO OF IRAQI SUPER GUN RELEASED BY U.N. - United Nations officials
inspecting a long range Iraqi gun about 110 miles north of Baghdad. The
170 foot barrel was designed to hurl chemical, biological or nuclear
weapons up to 1,000 miles, striking targets in Tel Aviv or Teheran. The
U.N. said experts would draw up plans for its demolition.
FIGHTING MAY UNRAVEL YUGOSLAV TRUCE - dateline August 23 Belgrade - The
Yugoslav federal presidency's commission for monitoring an all but
disintegrated cease-fire in the war between rebel Serbs and Croatian
Government forces neared complete breakdown today as the warring sides
prepared for an escalation in the fighting. .... Local Croatian and
Serb-rebel leaders in eastern Croatia today ordered a general mobilization
of all Croat and Serb men over 18 years old. Fearing an all out
intervention by the national army on behalf of the Serb rebels, Croatian
forces have rigged bridges with dynamite and built concrete bunkers.
GERMANY REJECTS A HOSTAGE-PRISONER LINK - dateline August 23 Beirut - In
a declaration that could complicate efforts to free the Western hostages
in Lebanon, the German Embassy in Beirut today rejected any link between
the release of the two German hostages and two Shite Muslim Lebanese
jailed in Germany on terrorism charges.
NEW YORK TIMES - Monday - August 26, 1991
page one headlines
SOVIETS' RUSH TOWARD DISUNION SPREADS; EUROPE EMBRACING BALTIC
INDEPENDENCE
page A3
NEW CROATIA STRIFE AFTER BONN WARNING - dateline August 25 Belgrade -
Deadly clashes between Croatia's militia and the republic's rebel Serbs
backed by the Yugoslav Army erupted today, hours after Germany's Foreign
Minister warned the Yugoslav Government that Bonn may recognize Slovenia
and Croatia if the violence does not cease soon..... an official German
Government statement ... blamed the Serb and communist-dominated Yugoslav
National Army for frustrating the peace process in Yugoslavia. ...
Yugoslav Army tanks, river boats and MIG jets repeatedly struck targets
near the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar soon after a mortar battle
erupted this morning between Croatian and rebel Serb forces.... Croatia,
which is seriously outgunned in it's struggle with the rebel Serbs and
Yugoslav Army, and Slovenia have intensified their efforts to gain
international support and diplomatic recognition..
page A6
JORDANIAN KING CONFERS WITH ARAFAT - WHO WILL REPRESENT THE PALESTINIANS
AT PEACE TALKS
TURK SAID TO ADMIT SLAYING 2 IN BBS CREW
page A10
TWO MORE SOVIET REPUBLICS BEGIN INDEPENDENCE MOVES - DESPITE MISGIVINGS,
THE UNION CONTINUES TO UNRAVEL
page A13
IMMEDIATE U.S. RECOGNITION OF BALTIC STATES IS EXPECTED
NEW YORK TIMES - Tuesday - August 27, 1991
page one headlines
GORBACHEV PLEADS, BUT BREAKAWAY AREAS DEFY HIM, PUTTING FATE OF UNION IN
DOUBT
COLLAPSE OF AN EMPIRE - SOVIET POLITICIANS AGREE THE UNION IS DYING BUT
THERE IS NO ACCORD ON WHAT'S AHEAD
page A3
U.N. OPTIMISTIC ON HOSTAGE RELEASE - dateline August 26 Geneva - The
United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, said today that
"we are moving at a good pace," after discussing the hostage issue with
his chief trouble shooter who returned from a visit to Israel.
ATTACKS ON CROATIA CALLED WORST OF WAR - dateline August 26 Vinkovici -
Yugoslav Army and rebel Serb forces pounded Croatian towns with artillery,
mortar and air bombardments for hours today in the Yugoslav civil war's
heaviest fighting to date..... Sketchy reports from Vukovar said that a
hospital.... sustained serious damage in the 10 hour attack, during which
air force jets reportedly dropped cluster bombs... Serb snipers and motor
units also took aim in Vinkovici today and Sunday night, peppering the
local hospital with bullets.... "With these attacks on Vukovar and Kijevo,
given the magnitude of the operations and weaponry used, the Yugoslav Army
has clearly taken over the military initiative in it's support for the
creation of a Greater Serbia" said Milan Brezak, Croatia's Deputy Internal
Affairs Minister.... Today's fighting appeared to be the most extensive
use of the vast firepower that the Yugoslav Army, which is dominated by
Serbs and Communists, has assembled on the Serbian side... since Croatia
and Slovenia declared their independence on June 25.
page A7
YELSTIN WARNS SECEDING REPUBLICS ABOUT ETHNIC RUSSIAN MINORITIES -
dateline August 26 Moscow - The Russian federated republic issued a
statement today, warning other Soviet republics that it would not let them
secede from the union taking areas with heavy Russian populations with
them. The leader of neighboring Kazakhstan then warned that border
disputes could touch off a war between republics.
COLLAPSE OF AN EMPIRE: BUT WHAT TAKES ITS PLACE?
NEW YORK TIMES - Wednesday - August 28, 1991
page one headlines
GORBACHEV THREATENS TO QUIT UNLESS REPUBLICS FIND A WAY TO PRESERVE A
MODIFIED UNION - LEADERS OF KEY REGIONS SAY THEY'LL WORK FOR REVISED
FEDERATION
page A3
CROATIA SAYS CALL-UP IS NEXT MOVE - dateline August 27 Osijek - Leaders
of Croatia's government said today that they expected to announce a
general mobilization within 24 hours that would oblige all healthy, adult
men to join forces that have been under heavy attacks from rebel Serbs and
the Yugoslav Army..... Local governments in some areas of Croatia have
already begun mobilizing men...... Mr. Tudjman warned last week that
Croatia would in effect, declare war on Yugoslavia in the National Army's
units in his republic are not returned to their barracks... by August 31.
page A11
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY RECOGNIZES BALTIC STATES AS INDEPENDENT
NEW YORK TIMES - Thursday - August 29, 1991
page one headlines
SOVIET LEADERS PRESS A REBELLIOUS UKRAINE TO REMAIN IN THE UNION - PLEA
FOR SURVIVAL - FARMING AND INDUSTRIAL AREA SEEN AS VITAL TO ANY FORM OF
UNITY
page A9
YUGOSLAVIA TRUCE QUICKLY UNRAVELS - ARMY AND REBEL SERB FORCES BOMBARD
CROATIAN TOWNS WITH GUN AND MOTOR - dateline August 28 Vukovar - The
explosion of motor and cannon shells echoed through this Croatian town and
surrounding villages again today despite a cease-fire agreement reached
between army and Croatian leaders Tuesday night..... Yugoslav army jets
bombed targets in and near the town, and a large column of tanks was
reported to be moving toward it from across the Serbian border...
page A10
KUWAIT SAYS IT THWARTED IRAQI INFILTRATION OF ISLAND - dateline August 28
United Nations - Kuwait said today that it had thwarted an attempt by a
group of heavily armed Iraqis to infiltrate the island of Bublyan,
capturing at least 47 of them and sinking several boats carrying others...
"It's not just a simple border violation" said the spokesman for the
Kuwait mission to the United Nations, Masoud al Fehaid. "We look at it
gravely.... we consider it a military attack"
NEW YORK TIMES - Monday - September 2, 1991
page one headlines
SOVIET UPHEAVAL INJECTS URGENCY INTO U.S. DEBATE ON INTELLIGENCE
SOVIET INSURGENTS FEAR HARD-LINERS PLAN NEW MOVES
page A3
LEBANON AND SYRIA SIGN WIDE SECURITY PACT dateline September 1 Beirut -
The Lebanese Government signed an agreement with Syria today insuring day-
to-day coordination on all military and security matters, the exchange of
intelligence information.... The pact allows either country to ask the
other for military assistance if it's stability is challenged.
EUROPEANS ARRIVE IN YUGOSLAVIA TO PROMOTE PEACE PLAN dateline September 1
Zagreb - Officials of the European Community arrived in Belgrade today to
advance a peace plan accepted by Croatia and Serbia that calls for teams
of foreign observers to monitor a cease-fire.... But even as Foreign
Minister Hans van den Broek of the Netherlands prepared to preside over
the formal signing of the community's plan, there were reports of renewed
clashes between Croats and Serbs...
ARMENIANS BACK CALL FOR U.N. ROLE IN AZERBAIJAN dateline September 1
Yerevan, U.S.S.R. - Armenian officials today supported an American
Congresswoman's call for a United Nations peacekeeping force in the
disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, where ethnic combatants have seized
25 hostages...
NEW YORK TIMES - Wednesday - September 4, 1991
page one headlines
GORBACHEV AND YELTSIN, TENSE ALLIES, PUSH UNION PLAN - BOTH SAY FUTURE OF
NATION RESTS ON PASSAGE
page A3
EUROPE PLANS YUGOSLAV PEACE TALKS - MEETING TO OPEN SATURDAY, WITH A
BRITON AS THE CHAIRMAN
ISRAEL REQUESTS RAISES ISSUE OF SETTLEMENTS
page A7
EXILED GENERAL URGES THE LEBANESE TO RESIST
page A10
COMMUNIST IN SPAIN ROILED BY CALLS OF SOME TO DISBAND
NEW YORK TIMES - Thursday - September 5, 1991
page one headlines
SOVIET CONGRESS RESISTS RESHAPED UNION - AGREES ONLY TO EXTENDED TALKS ON
THE PLAN
page A3
RENEWED FIGHTING WOUNDS YUGOSLAV ECONOMY dateline September 4 Sisak -
Fighting raged today across the secessionist republic of Croatia.... In
Bonn Germany's Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, assailed the
Yugoslav Army action, warning Serbia in a speech to Parliament that
Germany would move to recognize Croatia unless fighting stopped. "The hour
of recognition nears with every shot your cannon and tanks fire" Mr..
Genscher said, "We will not be able to stand by and watch any
longer"...about 200 cease-fire observers were scheduled to reach Croatia
today..... their departure from the Netherlands was delayed because
Zegreb's airport was shut down this morning after skirmishes there between
Croatian militiamen and army soldiers.....
NEW YORK TIMES - Friday - September 6, 1991
page one headlines
ISRAELI'S PRIZE POSSESSION; SHEIK ABDUL KARIM OBEID IS ASSASSINATED BY CAR
BOMB - 100 ISRAELI SOLDIERS AND CITIZENS ARE KILLED - SWIFT REVENGE IS
PROMISED.
GERMANY KEEPS IT'S PROMISE; 1000 PARATROOPERS LAND AT ZAGREB AIRPORT TO
ALLOW EUROPEAN COMMUNITY CEASE-FIRE OBSERVERS TO LAND - SUPPORTING NAVAL
FORCE ENTERS ADRIATIC SEA
GORBACHEV AND YELSTIN SMILE OVER EXPECTED VOTE TOMORROW TO APPROVE THE NEW
FEDERATED UNION PLAN - CONGRESS OF PEOPLES DEPUTIES TO MEET AND VOTE
TOMORROW!
NEW YORK TIMES - Saturday - September 7, 1991
THE WORLDS NEW ORDER EXPLODES!!!! - RUSSIAN JETS DESTROY SUPREME
PARLIAMENT BUILDING WHILE UNION VOTE IS TAKEN. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLES
DEPUTIES ARE KILLED - FATE OF GORBACHEV AND YELSTIN UNKNOWN
RUSSIAN HARD LINERS DECLARE NATIONAL EMERGENCY AND SET UP NEW CENTRAL
GOVERNMENT IN KIEV - MILITARY ATTACKS AND DESTROYS GERMAN NAVAL FORCE IN
ADRIATIC SEA AND LANDS IT'S OWN AMPHIBIOUS FORCE IN SUPPORT OF YUGOSLAV
COMMUNIST ARMY
AS ISRAEL ATTACKS PLO STRONGHOLDS IN LEBANON - IRAQ FIRES IT'S SUPER
CANNON ON ISRAEL WITH CHEMICAL WEAPONS. THOUSANDS REPORTED DYING OF GAS
ATTACK.
SYRIA ADVANCES ARMIES ON ISRAEL - SAYING IT IS HONORING IT'S PACT WITH
LEBANON
NEW YORK TIMES - Sunday - September 8, 1991
WORLD TURMOIL CONTINUES ON DAY THREE OF WAR - PENTAGON PUTS FORCES ON
DEFCON ONE STATUS - RESERVES ARE CALLED UP AGAIN - RAPID DEPLOYMENT FORCE
SENT TO SAUDI ARABIA - MIDEAST MOBILIZATION IS INITIATED - 1967 STYLE
AIRLIFT TO ISRAEL IS BEGUN
IRAQI FORCES INVADE SAUDI ARABIA - IRANIAN MARINES INVADE THE UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES BLOCKING OF THE PERSIAN GULF AND TRAPPING U.S. NAVAL FORCES
INCLUDING A CARRIER.
September 9 - Monday 0500 - Strait of Gibraltar - CV Independence -
Captain Charles "Razzia" Rouhier just phoned the bridge and gave the orders for a 24 hour general quarters watch to be set. As he walked to the staff conference room. He was thinking to himself. "How was the old
Independence going to get through this one. We were on our way to the yard for the annual turndown and overhaul ( me to retirement ) while other ships of the group were headed for SIMMA in Newport. The Independence was only
loaded with various aircraft being ferried back to the states for refitting or retirement... we don't even have a full wing on board... but fate has dealt us a new hand and mission!". As Charles Rouhier entered the darkened
staff room he noticed that everybody was engrossed in the S-2s brief, so he signaled his XO LTCMDR Allen "Wombat" Wotherspoon ( Wombat handle came from his infamous furrowing out Iraqi tanks in Desert Shield/Desert Storm conflict)
to forestall formalities and took a seat in the last row without anybody noticing. Razzia saw a projection map on the large wall screen showing USSR broken into it's ethnic republic boundaries, and how intensely his
officers were listening to Ed "Sereno" Winsor the S-2... indicating that they were ready to tackle their mission... it made Captain Rouhier feel good.
Ed Winsor paused briefly to signal Rouhier that he acknowledges his presence and thanks for not disturbing his brief; As large projected maps of Russia, Mideast and Mediterranean flashed up behind him. Sereno.. as he
preferred to be called... continued; "NSA has indicated that the Russian threat in the Med. is not a strong one. Russia itself is split in two and a good number of the hard line breakaway forces code named "Goblin" are engaged
with the reformist forces "Yankee" of the Russian republic approximately along the 55th parallel to the Ural mountains. The greatest threat of Goblin is the massive forces of the Muslim republics spreading south to join forces
with the Iranians, Syrians and Iraqis; to conquer the Arab states and control the oil fields of the Mideast and destroy Israel. The hard line breakaway government has set up in Kiev and is controlled by the Ukrainian elite who
were the original Russian polity. They bombed the Supreme Soviet as they were to vote for the new democratic federated republic plan pushed by Gorbachev and Yelstin. Both were killed in the attack along with most of
the elected Peoples Deputies. They aligned with the Turkic and Muslim republics promising them rule over Turkey and the Mideast. This will give them control over the rich agricultural and industrial areas: along with the
control over of the worlds oil supply. This will give them a potent nation to continue on with the communist revolution to conquer the world."
The room is quiet and stuffy from all the intense concentration as the projection screen explodes with a close up of the eastern Mediterranean area including the Black Sea . The map dwarfs Sereno... as he continues;
"Goblin has the Black Sea fleet under his control and approximately 70% of the air force and 45% of the army. The fleet has broken out into the Med and controls the eastern areas including the Adriatic Sea; after destroying
the German fleet and part of the Italian fleet which was deployed at the time. They did this under the ploy of supporting the communist Yugoslav Army after the Germans landed forces in Zagreb. Along the way they
coordinate with paratroop drops and took control of Cigli, Turkey and Patrai, Greece. This gives air cover for the complete Black Sea fleet breakout. Their initial fleet breakout has gone into the Adriatic Sea and
landed troops along with more coordinate paratroop drops taking control of Sibenik and Rijeka/Yugoslavia along with Venice/Italy. Goblin has the Croatian, German and Hungarians surrounded. It is expected that they will
advance once they have consolidated and gotten their air assets in place. The Goblin air force includes all types of platforms since they control 70% of the Russian original air force. You can expect any type of threat from them. "
Everybody squints and rubs their eyes as the projection screen blanks out and the overhead day lights comes back on. Sereno moves back to the lectern and gives a final review.... "Gentlemen; Goblin right now is
consolidating his positions on the Med front.... ferrying massive amounts of supplies and bringing in plenty of air assets to protect his flank. To our advantage Goblin has very little Intel due to the fact many of the
facilities were in the hands of Yankee... and much of that was destroyed in the bombing of Moscow and the Kremlin. He does not know what is out there as a threat except what he can find with his air patrols and
submarine forces. So expect plenty of forward patrols in the air and under the surface. Most of the fighting between Yankee and Goblin has been done without much forward Intel and so the fighting is close...
slow... and fierce. On his eastern fronts through the Mideast he is advancing very fast but with stiff resistance. You now have everything as I know it... good luck my friends!"
Captain Wotherspoon swiftly took Sereno's place. "People!!!... as of 0500 we have been put on 24 hour general quarters watch. Our mission is code named "Kangaroo" has began. We have been given the privilege of
spearheading the Allied counter offensive to outflank Goblin's western attack! Our mission objectives are two. One we will advance into the eastern Med and stop the Black Sea fleet breakout then enter the
Adriatic Sea and land the marines at Rijeka, Yugoslavia. The Italian fleet out of Brindisi port will run interference for us till we get on station. We will secure this port to off load supplies and start a relief column to
the besieged Germans in Zegreb. This beach head will be the staging point for the southern pincher drive into the Ukraine and onto Kiev. This will in effect split the Goblin front into two. The objective is to isolate Kiev
and besiege their political and military center from their Muslim fiends in the East. Our second objective is to draw in their air force draining it from the other fronts.... thus weakening them.... and allowing our forces
to advance at the other fronts. It is hoped that this will break the back of Goblin and force him to surrender. Our orders are not to engage in hostile activities which will bring other parties into the fight and
expand the front we have to fight on. However we have the right to defend ourselves as needed. The Med is full of merchant ships so be careful. We are not to fire on any merchant ship of any kind unless fired upon first.
Gentlemen you are dismissed and may god be with you.!!"
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Evaluate Forces
Force comparison
-------------|- Blue Side --- Red Side -|
Bases -------| 6 11 |
Ships -------| 47 56 |
Combat | 23 29 |
Lrg Combat | 13 7 |
Support | 11 20 |
Subs --------| 9 14 |
Nuclear | 3 n/a |
Diesel | 6 14 |
Aircraft ----| 463 1586 |
Combat | 366 1391 |
ASW | 75 67 |
Support | 22 128 |
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ANALYZING VICTORY CONDITIONS:
BLUE TOTAL VICTORY CONDITION (AND) 1:
1 Merchant ship must be on station for 1 hrs, 30 min, 0 sec.
at port Rijeka Yugoslavia ( sevastopol )
BLUE TOTAL VICTORY CONDITION (AND) 2:
1 Tanker ship must be on station for 1 hrs, 30 min, 0 sec.
at port Rijeka Yugoslavia ( sevastopol )
BLUE TOTAL VICTORY CONDITION (AND) 3:
1 LST ship must be on station for 1 hrs, 30 min, 0 sec.
Since we cannot change the base names in the Scenario Editor we will have to use the following conversion chart below;
"TOPEL" = Sibenik, Yugoslavia
"Murted = Zagreb, Yugoslavia
"Sevestopol" = Rijeka, Yugoslavia
"El-Arish" = Venice, Italy
"Fiad" = Budapest, Hungry
"Brindisi" = Pescara, Italy
"Merzifon" = Patrai, Greece
Also note that the Red Merchant groups are included for affect to simulate the busy shipping traffic found in the Med. So as per orders they should not be fired upon unless one turns guns on your forces and fires.
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