The Federation
Established Nation
TROUBLE IN THE WEST
Sander Rygaard sat flanked by admirals and generals alike, the last few weeks had rattled him and he was tired of the constant meetings and the aura of fear that now infested the beautiful city streets of Charleroi. Where once the night was dark, spot lights and anti-aircraft guns pointed into the skies over the major coastal cities.
"God will most surely be blind now." He thought as his mind's eye pictured the spotlights. "Let him not be blind to our plight." He prayed.
..."Our military capabilities increase every week, with the approval of the new escort carriers our shipyards in Duquesne and here in Charleroi are already hard at work laying down the new ships. Our fleet carrier in Baldwin-Whitehall has been launched ahead of schedule but will not be ready for the open sea until the end of may, the Baldwin Shipbuilding Corporation is hard at work building the new destroyers we ordered a while ago. The Continental Marines are now practicing amphibious landings near Stark, the rocky beaches and seawalls there will provide them with excellent training should an assault be necessary. The fleet we prepared for the cancelled Thumantic war games are now conducting maneuvers near Baldwin as well as CAP (combat air patrols) " Vice Admiral Piett paused for questions.
"And the army?" Rygaard asked looking pensive.
General George Guyard spoke answered him, "The army is currently preparing for the high alert status, the army air force has tripled patrols of high altitude fighters, especially over our industrial centers. If the Danes are conducting reconnaissance over our territory as they were last time, they must have developed a way to become invisible to our men and our RADAR. We have several divisions now conducting training missions with the Continental Marines."
Rygaard sat up, "Good, we are prepared and we must stay ready, I will not lower our alert status until we have entered into diplomatic talks with
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itself which may be difficult now that the government has dissolved there. If speaking with their government was that hard I can only imagine how the crown handles transitions like these. Meaning it will most likely be impossible."Admiral Jack Henriksson finally spoke up after saying nothing for almost an hour, "Mr. President?"
Rygaard turned himself to look at the Admiral, "Please Admiral, speak."
"I went ahead and ordered our submarine force into positions around the Thumantic, while leaving a nominal force here. Should war break out we can quickly cripple Danish civilian shipping and perhaps pick off straggling naval vessels."
Rygaard wasn't angry, he had trusted Henriksson to make decisions on his own many times before. "I understand. Then our primary focus shall continue to be a continued effort to resolve this diplomatically whilst silently preparing for war. I want our communications with our allies to be sparse now more than ever, other than calls for our friends to join us we keep our military movements secret, speak to nobody about our plans here and continue your movements and preparations."