Operation Red Dawn and the Siege of Europe

West Coast Landing

While the DoD was experiencing a massive cyber-attack against their communications network, twelve Japanese freighters had arrived at the Port of Los Angeles over the past four days. Since December 24^th was Christmas Eve and the Japanese did not celebrate that holiday, they used that day to launch the greatest sneak attack in American history. They started to unload their freighters, taking over control of several unloading shipping containers filled with military equipment and munitions, and connecting the roll-on, roll-off bridges to the ships. Within twenty minutes, they had unloaded nine infantry fighting vehicles and three tanks. Next came a dozen light drone tanks followed by nearly three thousand soldiers per ship. They quickly began to unpack their gear and vehicles, getting them ready for combat. A platoon’s worth of troops and one IFV along with a mobile air-defense vehicle moved to each corner of the port to establish an initial air defense umbrella over their operations.

At first the sight of military vehicles driving around inside the port did not attract attention; the few workers slogging it out during the holiday had seen this before. What attracted attention was the markings on some of the vehicles and uniforms. Many of the vehicles and soldiers had Japanese flags identifying them, which made sense, since Japan was an ally. However, some of the vehicles had the Chinese flag on them, and America was at war with China. So why would Chinese vehicles be inside the port?

Some of the port security guards moved towards the soldiers to identify who they were and ask their intentions… they were quickly shot and killed. Once the first shots were fired, the on-scene Japanese Commander ordered his forces to move quickly to secure the rest of the port and prepare to move to their secondary objectives.

An Army officer who was assigned to the Port of Oakland to assist with the loading and offloading of military equipment was flagged down by some port security officials.

“Hey, are we expecting any Japanese soldiers and equipment to arrive?” they asked.

Surprised and caught off guard, the Captain responded, “I was not made aware of any Japanese military forces heading to the U.S. We had better go check it out.” He strapped on his side arm, got into the port security vehicle, and drove with them to the location where they had sighted the Japanese soldiers.

When he arrived, he was amazed at how many soldiers had landed, and how quickly they had established a perimeter. They had cut off a large portion of the port with concertina wire, stationed several light armored vehicles at various points, and had begun to set up a number of anti-air guns and missile systems. Not sure what was going on, he quickly tried to place a phone call to his superiors to report what he was seeing… only, his cell phone gave him nothing but, “Sorry, we are unable to complete your call at this time. Please try again later.” The network was down.

As he approached one of the entry points, he saw the soldiers manning it quickly raise and point their weapons at him. The Captain quickly raised his hands up in a show of peace, hoping to not get shot. As he stood there, several Japanese soldiers advanced towards him quickly. One of them yelled at him, “Get on the ground with your hands on your head! Get down and don’t move!”

In shock, he stood there for a moment, unsure what to make of the request. Japan was supposed to be an ally, not an enemy. The Japanese soldier shouted the order a second time. The Captain quickly complied with their request, and within seconds soldiers were on top of him, taking his weapon and zip-tying his hands together before they brought him to his feet and marched him off.

The Captain made several angry pleas, “Please, what is going on? Why are you doing this?” When he wouldn’t be quiet, he was hit in the stomach with the butt of a rifle.

The Trojan Horse had arrived.