Full Spectrum Dominance: December 2014

Wednesday, 31 December 2014

Full Spectrum Dominance 2014 - A Year In Review Conclusion

THE SECOND HALF OF 2014 SAW SOME GREAT PROJECTS - HERE WE FINISH OFF THE REVIEW OF THE YEAR

Full Spectrum Dominance 2014 - A Year In Review

A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL MY FOLLOWERS AND READERS - 2014 HAS BEEN A GREAT FIRST YEAR FOR THE BLOG, AND IN THIS POST WE LOOK OVER SOME OF THE MAIN EVENTS

Resolutions for the New Year

AS IS THE CUSTOM WITH HOBBY BLOGS, IT IS TIME FOR SOME NEW YEAR HOBBY RESOLUTIONS!

AAR - The Russian Coalition versus The Federated States of America

"For a number of years, the weather station at Kiska Island had been all-but abandoned, leaving the remote outpost undefended against potential aggression from the Empire of the Blazing Sun. The strategic importance of the island was questionable, but the some within the intelligence agencies of the Federated States of America believed there was a chance the Blazing Sun (or the Russian Coalition...) could use Kiska and the rest of the Aleutian Island chain in an island-hopping campaign up from Kuril Islands and the Kamchatka Peninsula, into Canada and then down into FSA territory.

Tensions with the Russian Coalition had been high for the entire War, especially for those captains based in the North Pacific and the Bering Sea in the wake of the Bering Incident. Seeking to score political points and show-up the Russian Navy, Admiral Franklin E. King ordered an Expeditionary Fleet to secure Kiska in the interest of national security and to salvage any leftover Russian technology from their barely-manned weather station.

Such a blatantly aggressive move was not in the interests of the American Congress or General Staff, and in the tense months that followed, few could justify the order for the attempted annexation beyond the personal vendetta of Admiral King. The truth behind who gave the order would be lost in the political debacle that followed...

...regardless of the explanation for the deployment of the Expeditionary Fleet, nothing would matter as they sailed unsuspectingly into the guns of the Russian's secret Aleutian Patrol Fleet, Battlegroup Chirikov, and began the first major naval engagement between the Federated States and the Russian Coalition in nearly three years..."

- Shadows of Bering: Skirmish at Kiska

Naval Battles of 1872