Scenario II: Massachusetts vs. Iowa
[Tactical Evaluation]
Massachusetts
- Size, its small size leads to an advantage when underestimated
- Strong Oligarchical Government Structure and combat experience (the Kennedy's -->Arnold)
- Enlistment pool, very limited. Most are social liberals who could afford to move to Canada to avoid Vietnam.
- Strong industrial complex
- Infrastructure is optimum with sufficient highways and deep sea port access.
Iowa
- Size, medium size allows for initial land loss without significant peril to the state
- Enlistment pool, very strong. Noticeable portion of the population has served the former United States in it's wars abroad
- Society is very individualistic, with an emphasis on the small town city state. May lead to easy fracturing of Iowa as a whole.
- Industrial complex is very limited, emphasis in on agrarian production
- Commercial potential, good. Energy needs can be met with the production of ethanol and local large farming equipment can be reallocated for defense.
- Infrastructure, poor. Mostly farm to market roads serve as intra-state connections.
- Editors note - Iowa has an unforseen advantage in private fire arm ownership and marksman ability.
[Outcome]
Massachusetts makes early inroads into the country of Iowa, however, very little land of significant strategic value is lost. Massachusetts bureaucracy then slows their blitz across Iowa down as poor maps and roads that lead no where cause havoc. Iowa's combines and tractors, unabated by the absence of roads, criss-crosses across farmland and surprises the Massachusetts army. Iowa chases the army back to Massachusetts, only to make one horrific tactical error. They use the same bridge Ted Kennedy crossed that fateful night years ago. Thousands of lives are lost and no one is quite sure how it happened.
Swartzenagger takes command of the beleaguered Massachusetts forces and decided to attack Iowa from the North with the assumption that Tom Daschle would prove to be an ally. However, the bureaucrats failed again to realize that Swartzenagger had no real combat experience, and after being grazed by a round of shot from a 12 gauge, he surrendered his forces. He was hung on the spot for marrying a Kennedy, a capital offense in Iowa. A truce was called, but to this day John Deer continues to receive an unusual amount of order for combines.
[End of scenario]