The commander alone has access to the "commander screen", an interface similar to that of a real-time strategy game. This allows the commander an overview of the battlefield as a whole, or zoom in and view parts of the map in real-time. The commander also has control of the various commander assets, which include artillery strikes, vehicle and supply drops, and UAV's. They can deploy them to assist their team. The commander can communicate with squads either by sending orders, or via VoIP voice communication. These tools allow the commander to strategically coordinate their forces on the battlefield.
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This vital position on the Persian Gulf possesses a television station with a powerful transmitter, allowing it to aid propaganda support for the ongoing Middle Eastern Coalition campaign. United States Rapid Deployment forces have captured this coastal position and now face a determined counterattack by converging Middle Eastern Coalition forces. This lazy seaside resort of villas, markets and beach houses is about to become a modern battlefield as United States forces attempt to hold on to their newly-captured communications prize.
The Zatar Wetlands along the Red Sea coastline possess vital natural gas resources, but create a difficult battlefield for United States and Middle Eastern Coalition forces. Small tributaries break the landscape into isolated islands whose soggy marshes inhibit heavy vehicles. As American forces advance, Middle Eastern Coalition forces possess an initial advantage in the air. Control of an abandoned airfield is crucial in the battle, after which supply line protection will become an additional consideration.
The MEC forces have made landfall on the Eastern Coast of the United States, and are preparing to push inland. Caught by surprise, the US Marines are deploying nearby, hastily preparing a base of operations to stop the MEC advance. The key objective for both armies is a highway junction in the middle of the battlefield that grants access to nearly every key military target in the area. Whoever controls this overpass controls most of the Eastern Seaboard!
Finally, on 24 February, the ground war began. Hours before the start of the offensive, special reconnaissance teams from the 5th and 3d Special Forces Groups (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, flying out of King Khalid Military City on specially condivd helicopters, were sent deep behind Iraqi lines to gather intelligence. Kicking off the main attack in bad weather, the XVIII Airborne Corps quickly made an end run around the open right flank of the Iraqi Army. Simultaneously, U.S. and allied forces in the east attacked directly north toward Kuwait City. The Tiger Brigade (1st Brigade, 2d Armored Division), supporting Marine Corps units, pushed directly north from Saudi Arabia through blazing Kuwaiti oil fields set on fire by retreating Iraqis. By midafternoon on the first day of battle, elements of the 101st and 82d Airborne Divisions were deep into Iraq, in one case just twenty-four miles south of the Euphrates River.
In 100 hours, U.S. and allied ground forces in Iraq and Kuwait decisively defeated a battle-hardened and dangerous enemy. During air and ground operations, U.S. and allied forces destroyed over 3,000 tanks, 1,400 armored personnel carriers, and 2,200 artillery pieces along with countless other vehicles. This was achieved at a cost to the United States of 96 soldiers killed in action, 2 died of wounds, and 105 non-hostile deaths.
The story picks up after the end of the expanded storyline patch content from the vanilla version of A Realm Reborn. Unexpectedly, it forces new or returning players to get through the old storyline (a substantial chunk of content!) in order to access the new stuff.
But in aid of the blockade, and in aid of the generalpolicy of shutting the South in and compellingit to rely exclusively upon its own inadequate resources,the Federal Government promptly dispatchedforces to the South, to capture the seacoastfortifications there and to make of the coast a Federalinstead of a Confederate possession and stronghold.On the twenty-ninth of August, 1861, an expeditionunder command of General B. F. Butler, capturedthe forts at Cape Hatteras. On the seventh andeighth of November another expedition reduced theworks at Port Royal and Hilton Head in South Carolina,thus making of the coast strongholds importantstrategic positions for the Northern arms. Later thewhole coast, except the great harbor, was conquered.
It must always be a matter of astonishment to thehistorian that greater use was not made of the advantagesthus gained at the beginning of the war. Itis true that the geography of the Carolinian coastcountry specially lent itself to the defense of thatregion by small forces arrayed against greatly superiornumbers. It is true, for example, that at265Pocotatigo, on the twenty-second of October, 1862,two batteries of artillery and a company or two ofdismounted cavalry numbering in all only 350 men,being reinforced late in the day by about four hundredmore, succeeded in repelling the all-day assaultof not less than three thousand and ended by drivingthe Federal force back to its ships. This was due inpart to the peculiarly defensive nature of the groundand in part to the certainty that the Federal forcescould not remain over night at Pocotatigo withoutfinding nearly every man among them stricken withthat dire disease, "country fever," before morning.
On the Confederate side the one masterful militarymind was that of Robert E. Lee. As a matter offact it was Lee who selected Manassas as the firstpoint of resistance, and it was under his wise directionthat Beauregard and Johnston were able to concentratetheir forces there and to win the victoryof July 21, 1861. But in the meanwhile Lee wasnot himself appointed to command any considerablearmy. He was sent to West Virginia to patchup a peace between the civilian brigadiers who commandedthere and who had managed among themselvesto lose every action that had occurred in thatquarter. While Beauregard and Johnston wereweakly throwing away the opportunity so conspicuouslyopened to them by the Manassas victory, thisofficer of commanding genius was set to the task oforganizing a mountain defense against expeditionsthat had nothing of serious purpose in them exceptthe prevention of Confederate enlistments west ofthe Alleghenies.
One other event of importance remains to berecorded in this chapter. When the Confederatesseized upon the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, oppositeNorfolk, Virginia, the Federal forces there destroyedall they could of valuable materials and adjuncts ofwar. But there was left a ship, the Merrimac, burnedin part and sunk. The Confederates raised this ship,cut her down and armored her with railroad iron.She was the first iron-clad ship that ever assailed otherships, the pioneer of all modern naval armaments. Atthe same time Captain John Ericsson at the Northwas experimenting upon somewhat similar lines andproducing the Monitor, the first iron-clad, turretedship ever built.
General Van Horne, writing under the direct inspirationof General George H. Thomas and with allthe orders and dispatches under his eye, says that theseveral divisions "were widely separated and did notsustain such relations to each other that it was possibleto form quickly a connected defensive line; they hadno defenses and no designated line for defense in theevent of a sudden attack, and there was no general onthe field to take by special authority the command ofthe whole force in an emergency."
He knew the excessive apprehension felt at theNorth for the safety of Washington city, and heplayed upon it with masterly skill. Ever since November,1861, Stonewall Jackson had been in the Valleyof the Shenandoah trying with a totally inadequateforce to hold that region and upon occasion toinflict what damage he could upon the foe, especiallyby destroying a section of the Baltimore and Ohiorailroad and of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, uponwhich the Federal communications between the forcesin West Virginia and the headquarters at Washingtondepended. Jackson had done some brilliantthings in that quarter and had succeeded in detainingthere a Federal force much greater than his own,which if set free to join McClellan would have madethe Federal army before Richmond irresistible in itsstrength. 2ff7e9595c
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