Third world war.

[Jenos Ridan]

Europe will hardly be united, unless we are speaking about only the EU, then the CIS nations will side with Iran and China/North Korea. Nations like Saudi Arabia and Israel, opposed to anything Iranian, will side with the NA-EU alliance. The old lines of the Cold War will be re-drawn around modern borders, the battlefields will cover most of central europe from the Polish border with the CIS to the Balkans, Iraq and surrounding area and the Korean Pennesula. The Balkan and Middle-Eastern theaters will prove chaotic, due to the constant state of tribal feuding, with few clearly defined battlelines.

It will prove interesting to see how a modern conflict of such scale will be fought, with the concepts of Network-Centric Warfare coupled with the older doctrine of AirLand Battle in play. Provided, of course, that no one begins using nuclear devices.

[muy_thaiguy]

Europe will hardly be united, unless we are speaking about only the EU, then the CIS nations will side with Iran and China/North Korea. Nations like Saudi Arabia and Israel, opposed to anything Iranian, will side with the NA-EU alliance. The old lines of the Cold War will be re-drawn around modern borders, the battlefields will cover most of central europe from the Polish border with the CIS to the Balkans, Iraq and surrounding area and the Korean Pennesula. The Balkan and Middle-Eastern theaters will prove chaotic, due to the constant state of tribal feuding, with few clearly defined battlelines.

It will prove interesting to see how a modern conflict of such scale will be fought, with the concepts of Network-Centric Warfare coupled with the older doctrine of AirLand Battle in play. Provided, of course, that no one begins using nuclear devices.

Germany may even be allowed to have an actual army again, though in hopes that it won't end up like it did in 1914 and 1939 (even though they weren't supposed to have a large military force). Greece will definitly be a heated place for battle, because I don't think that it was quite under Russia's thumb like other countries were. The Middle East will just get plain old nasty in eery sense of the word, with Egypt probably being torn between the US/UK and their allies, and Pakistan/Iran and their allies. In other words, another hotly ensued area. Africa, probably almost as a whole, will fall into utter chaos, espescially North Africa. Mainland Asia, well, basically one giant inferno there. Though it would seem that if Russia went back to the USSR, they and China would be likely allies. But even back in the day, Communist China and Soviet Russia were at a loggerheads over many things. So the closest they would ever become would be reluctant allies, probably with little support. And if oil ever did become a problem in China, the closest cource would be in Russia itself. So there's a big war right there. South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan would join up with the US, and Japan's "Police Force" would do quite nicely for a military force. As for the islands in the South Pacific, well, there's another possible hotbed of battles. Australia though, and New Zealand for that matter would join up with the US/UK allied forces there. North America (3 countries, thank God) will all be part of the Allied forces, Central America on down, it'll will probably get complicated. Switzerland, well, if it came down to it, probably what could aptly be determined "Western Alliance/Westernized Countries." But only as a last resort, really, I think. In other words, if the nuclear countries don't just launch their nukes, the entire world would be swept up in a massive battle. At least in WWI and WWII, some countries were spared the harm of them.

[Jenos Ridan]

Egypt would do well to swallow their pride and side with the Saudis, who will side with the EU/US alliance, which means fighting along side Israel against former ally Syria, which is caught in a pinch with Turkey to the north.

The rest of Africa will fall into massive tribal wars, with the politically dominatant Islamic regimes pitted against the emerging Christian social dynamic (Which because they would be fighting for change, would pose the greatest threat to their power).

Most of the South Pacific east of Indonesia would only be serving as bases for the American-led coalition, while Indonesia itself would be dealing with invasion from Malaysia and internal strife between the muslim majority and christian (here we go again, same for the Balkans. In fact the Balkans, Middle-East and Africa may all be equally chaotic, due to their similar histories of tribal violence and Islamic oppression).

Most of Central and South America might just remain neutral (if not, the only one that might side with the CIS-Sino-Iranian Alliance is Venuzaela (sp?), maybe Cuba and that would be it), like Switzerland. Sweden, through it has an advanced military, will remain uninvolved until Russia violates this neutrality. Finland is a tough one, unlikely that they would join the CIS-Sino-Iranian Alliance but it cannot be ruled out.