DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND
CLASSIFIED :: SECRET :: CLASSIFIED :: SECRET :: CLASSIFIED :: SECRET :: CLASSIFIED
TO: 506th Infantry Regiment Command, Fort Campbell
FROM: INSCOM Headquarters, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
RE: ROMN and LOTN pushed back to capital area
The following intelligence report is classified and should only be distributed to authorized personnel.
SituationAt this moment ROMN and LOTN have been pushed back to their capital and outlying suburbs. Their supplies are low, their men are wounded and demoralized. Psychological profiling of General Aguilar, Colonel Rodriguez, and Commander Silva indicates however that they will order their men to fight to the death.
TFC was able to assault their objective easily, and recapture Ambassador Bryant. He had been injured, and obviously heavily interrogated, but alive.
Heavy enemy direct and indirect fires delayed TFA’s assault on the town facilitating HVT Commander Luis Silva’s escape from the AO. HUMINT reporting collaborates drone video footage showing a single jeep racing southward out of the town while BMP’s and dismounted troops provided overwatch/rear security for his escape. It is unknown where the vehicle escaped to due to the heavy AAA in the area and the terrain.
The drone video showed the HVT outside a small structure in the town while TFA was pinned along the ridgeline. Just before getting into the jeep and driving south out of town, the HVT was observed shoving a ROMN soldier to the ground, appearing as if the HVT was arguing with the soldier. No further information.
Enemy BDA, video footage, and direct enemy engagements against friendly fixed and rotary wing aircraft confirms an unprecedented amount of air defense systems throughout the AO. At one point, Thunder was evading 7-10 Tunguska missiles while TFC reported evading at least 10x missiles fired at them. The enemy has prepared well to mitigate the 506th's aviation superiority through tactical emplacement of mobile and stationary air defense missile batteries throughout the area of operations.
An AA Site in the vicinity of Le PortTelevised Murder of Captured Embassy StaffIn a surprising and brutal move by General Aguilar a highly graphic video has been posted to social media and televised on the remaining channel in the capital showing a speech from the dictator to his supporters declaring that victory for Malden was at hand. Aguilar’s usual calm demeanor was gone, replaced by active and clearly energetic (Possibly a sign of psychotic breakdown) boasts and yelling to the camera. He declared:
“The Americans send to us the trash of society for which we gladly rid them of. The thugs that swarm against us are murderers and lunatics taken from the most murderous of institutions for no one with sense would face our might! Their planes dare not fly over us! Their ships dare not sail within sight of our guns! We will rid them of their filth, perhaps they will see the error of their ways then.”
He continued his boasts, but the highlight of the speech was an incredibly brutal video of an execution. It was unknown by any HUMINT sources that an American citizen, a State Department secretary assigned to the embassy in Malden: Elizabeth Holiday (23 Years Old), had survived the attack on the embassy and was held hostage by ROMN. She appeared to be tortured before the execution took place. Footage of a mock trial was shown, in which she was condemned to death for the crime of espionage. Ms. Holiday was merely the front desk secretary at the embassy with no connections to any intelligence agency. The video clearly showed that General Aguilar conducted the execution himself.
Interrogation of Prisoner from TFBTranscript of Interrogation Prisoner #1 (In English and through American interpreter)
[Notes: Prisoner #1 is the ROMN logistics commander, Aguilar’s S4. He was wounded by what he claims to have been a mortar strike, possibly by Task Force Bravo, Havoc-4-2 while visiting his brother-in-law, Colonel Rodrigo Gurrero (KIA), the overall commander of ROMN’s Air Force, at a frontline outpost. His name is Colonel Cesar Delgado, he is probably the oldest officer in ROMN’s ranks according to public sources, and he is currently wounded in his left and right legs by heavy shrapnel lacerations. But he is lucid and self-aware despite heavy doses of painkillers. He is also, from previous conversations and from the report of his own capture, civil and a complete consummate professional officer and carries himself in a manner befitting a gentleman.]
Interrogator: You are Colonel Cesar Delgado are you not?
Prisoner #1: Yes.
Interrogator: You are also S4 to General Aguilar yes?
Prisoner #1: Yes, I am chief of logistics, for what they are.
Interrogator: How were you captured?
Prisoner #1: Bad luck, wrong place wrong time. I took shrapnel wounds to my legs and was taken to our field hospital in La Riviere. I did not relinquish my weapon until I was searched by your soldiers. I wish that weapon to be presented to that unit’s commanding officer.
Interrogator: You were passed by during this operation by our troops were you not? Why didn’t you use your sidearm?
Prisoner #1: According to the Geneva Convention wounded soldiers are afforded protection by the treaty so long as they abide by its dictated laws of war. I was wounded, in a field hospital, it was dishonorable, and frankly would have been fatal to do so. Not to mention the other soldiers there may have been killed as well.
Interrogator: You are not like the other ROMN officers and soldiers in that regard.
Prisoner #1: No, I am of a dying breed. Honor has left this island’s armed forces and is replaced by rage and stupidity. I assure you, if you faced me in my prime years you would not have it so easy.
Interrogator: I do not doubt it. What would you say is the state of ROMN and LOTN at this time?
Prisoner #1: They are about to collapse. But Luis Silva is not about to admit it, he hardly does anything useful. He just bides his time and occasionally shoots Nuevo prisoners and tortures hostages for amusement.
Interrogator: Silva survived the attack?
Prisoner #1: Yes, he broke my chief of staff’s jaw who had taken command of the defense when he stopped Silva to demand he call his militia to aid the defense of the prisoner camp. Silva then fled like a coward. That’s when I realized collapse is imminent.
Interrogator: Who is about to collapse?
Prisoner #1: Both, more than two thousand of our soldiers are dead, wounded, or missing along with many of our best officers. Those we have now are either young and in over their heads or fanatics without a tactical or strategic thought in their heads.
Interrogator: Do you believe that ROMN and LOTN will surrender?
Prisoner #1: If you slowed your campaign, let attrition sink in and let our supplies of food and medicine dwindle then many regular army personnel will, they’re not fanatics, they’re only good soldiers. If you continue to blitz then they will stand and they will fight. Silva’s men…no they are going to fight you to their last breath if he would let them. Silva’s inspired a new kind of religious fever that he has yet to unleash. I personally think that thug would have used his men to seize power for himself if you hadn’t invaded.
Interrogator: Do you believe in Aguilar?
Prisoner #1: For a few days. Then he yanked the tiger’s tail by letting the mob murder those in your embassy. Everything he’s done since then has led from bad to worse. The only thing that has kept LOTN and the other officers in line has been Rodriguez and his Cazadores.
Interrogator: How?
Prisoner #1: The commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion protested Aguilar’s idea to attack San Juan with chlorine chemical bombs. Rodriguez stood up from the table and shot the man in the head. Aguilar never said a word. The man Rodriguez shot he had fought alongside all the way back to Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1989. Rodriguez only said: ‘If you cowards are not strong enough to do what needs to be done I’ll do it for you. Just step aside.’
(At this point Prisoner #1 was shaken, eyes hollow and real fear of Colonel Rodriguez showing on his face.)
Interrogator: And what do you think of this?
Prisoner #1: Malden is doomed if Aguilar wishes to continue to fight. Aguilar is stupid, this ends here and now for him. But Rodriguez won’t surrender, but he’s too smart to make a stand, he’ll fade away and fight you somewhere else. War is all he knows and the Dutch trained him perhaps too well.
Interrogator: Why are so freely telling us this?
Prisoner #1: I am a soldier, I always have been. I love my country, I love the army, and I love my people. I fear all three will be destroyed if this war continues, and we will be become just another forgotten chapter of history, destroyed by your eagle soldiers.
Takeaways:
Colonel Cesar Delgado is clearly disillusioned with Aguilar’s misguided rise to power. He is also different from other officers that we know of personally. It is a symbol of hope that ROMN troops can be persuaded to surrender and that domestic relations between the military and civilian population may improve on Malden postwar. It also seems that LOTN and ROMN internal relations are increasingly tense. It is now even suspected by at least some senior ROMN officers that Luis Silva wishes to seize power for himself and is a possible reason for his lack of commitment of LOTN assets.
END REPORT
ADDENDUM:
AMERICAN FORCES FREE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR
Stars and Stripes
TF Alpha, 506th INF REGT liberated President Perez’s Chief Secretary (Malden’s Secretary of State) and two COR leaders from a prison near La Pessagne. TFA encountered fierce enemy defenses at its LZ resulting in the loss of one CH-47 “Chinook” with combat reports indicating only a few injured soldiers and no fatalities, as well as the pilot miraculously surviving the incident. The cities of Vigny and La Pessagne were liberated with the American’s taking heavy casualties that required numerous reinforcement sorties.
TF Bravo, 506th INF REGT managed to break through the combined defensive lines of LOTN and ROMN fighting positions to secure the cities of La Riviere and Cancon. The operation resulted in the capture of an unknown number of ROMN soldiers, some wounded in and around La Riviere while an estimated 400 enemy soldiers were killed. In addition to heavy losses of soldiers, ROMN and LOTN forces lost substantial numbers of helicopters with combat reports claiming 4x Mi-34 HIND attack helicopters and 5x Ka-60 utility helicopters shot down or destroyed on the ground.
TF Charlie, 506th INF REGT successfully rescued American Ambassador to Malden from a previously unknown, heavily guarded holding facility in a cave complex south of Arudy. Fierce fighting ensued in and around Arudy but escalated into close quarters fighting as TFC fought towards the cave complex resulting in one American casualty and scores wounded. Although dehydrated and exhausted, TFC rescued Ambassador Bryant and quickly evacuated him from the area. The losses to ROMN armored forces was just as shocking with nearly a dozen main battle tanks, including older T-54’s from its reserves, being destroyed.
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The offensive began with an assault on a known holding facility for political and military prisoners located along the western coast near La Pessagne based upon information obtained during prisoner interrogations. Task Force Alpha conducted an aerial assault that came under immediate enemy direct and indirect fire from a ROMN automatic grenade launcher where a Chinook helicopter was destroyed as it lifted off from the LZ. The pilots were rescued by the troops it had just dropped off and were later extracted to Orion airbase to continue the operation. Fierce fighting erupted for the better part of an hour between TFA and enemy forces as BMP’s positions across the area fired continuously on the American unit. Eventually, American forces managed to push into the town and the prison facility and overwhelm the enemy force. Upon his liberation, Chief Secretary Lenocio Alvarez vowed to set up a new Nuevo civilian government as the acting Chief of State in the absence of President Perez.
Chief Secretary Alvarez stated the following in an audio recording played at an emergency session of the United Nations General Assembly. “The end is in sight. Our struggle has seen Malden’s gallant soldiers follow a madman into their graves and it anguishes me to know that so many Malden citizens have perished during this war. I want those who still bear arms against the legitimate Malden government and its citizens to know they can still fulfill their vows to their country, our culture, our people by ending this war and the unnecessary destruction of our homes and our people,”
Later in the day, in a similar offensive action by US troops Ambassador Bryant was located and freed after a fierce battle that he was more than willing to describe to the press upon his landing at Andrews AFB under heavy armed escort from the Diplomatic Security Service.
“I had been under heavy interrogation, well they were really demands that I denounce US policy and basically do one of those things. I refused and they even held a gun to my head to make me do it. But I think I called their bluff, because they obviously didn’t shoot me,” he said, smiling at the press, “The next morning we start hearing all this ruckus and outside they start shooting their mortars and they’re panicking, trying to figure out what to do. I could make out some of what they were saying. Their officers’ kept me alive in the hopes of negotiating safe conduct, but the Airborne boys got to the cave before they decided and there was just the most amazing fight I’ve ever seen going in front of me. Bullets and grenades of all kinds going off, the cave echoed everything, and I will need to have my hearing checked at the hospital, but they killed them all. That’s the kind of fight that’s going on across Malden, I could see the look in the eyes of our soldiers. They hate Aguilar’s men and they hate us. I guess there’s nothing holding them back now that they found me.”
Whether or not rules of engagement were relaxed or not is unknown, but American forces immediately after this smashed ROMN lines with a stunning offensive that shattered Aguilar’s center and split his hold on the island into two enclaves, one around the capital and another one in the remote Southwest peninsula. Tanks of hastily organized reserve formations were sent in a forceful counterattack that was repulsed in a rapid series of heavy bombardment by both sides before American forces seized the town of Cancon with relative ease. Reports of unrest in the predominantly Malbano-populated capital of La Port were supposedly dispersed with bayonets fixed to rifles and military vehicles and military flash bang grenades. LOTN commanders are blatantly questioning the authority of General Aguilar and Commander Louis Silva, LOTN chief leader, is reported to have nearly been killed in the opening attack of the day. Supposedly, Silva has had much to say against General Aguilar and ROMN due to the failures of the dictator’s forces to hold back the unstoppable American momentum.
These published documents are the fictional works of the S-2 Intelligence Team of the 506th IR Realism Unit.
