Real-Time WW3 from 2033-36

Real-Time WW3. Fiction, obviously. No longer updating; for real-time updates see and for archives check the AO3 link in the website.

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Battle lines as of 2036-02-01; the Sudanese front has not materially changed since the 1-15 update.

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By the end of the day, the 3rd Army Group has made some progress in Suwałki; no investment is in sight, but the city itself is vulnerable, and weeks old intelligence from escaped Armia Krajowa members is still helpful in targeting key facilities of the North Ukraine Front.

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Ma travels to Worcester to meet with McKnight's contact at WPI; the train is sitting on the tracks in southwestern Connecticut, and Ma snickers, remembering having read Chinese media crow about how they're going to fix American infrastructure.

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By the end of the day, the Hat Yai and Southern Thailand Army Groups have managed to trap the forward field army of the North Malaysia Army Group as planned.

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An attempt by the Chiang Rai Army Group to relieve its namesake city fails, and the PLA manages to surround another 100,000 Indian troops; Patak tells Chandy he is considering evacuating key personnel from the city toward Chiang Mai.

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The Dnieper and Black Sea Fronts withdraw from the remainder of the Southern Bug; the only area on the river still under SVR control is the Mykolaiv pocket, which the 9th Army Group is in no rush to reduce.

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Khattak tells Joshi that the North Gulf Army Group is ready to assault Kuwait, but it needs more air support assigned to this theater; Joshi refuses to commit to an answer.

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The 3rd Army Group begins its attack on Suwałki; Wenner plans to stop short of the 100 km radius from key occupied cities in order to be able to later attack them before SVR has time to deport their inhabitants, but Kaunas, within this radius of Suwałki, is already under siege.

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Leonenko swaps divisions between the Belarus Army Group and rear troops in Lithuania, making sure to move Ukrainian and Belarusian collaborators to the front and have a purely Russian force handle the imminent move on Kaunas, which he considers weakened from lack of food.

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Goh, Lai, and Ang return to base, where they are put in a room with a few other Chinese-looking people who they are told not to talk to and told to check machine translations of messages.

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Per the plan to trap the North Malaysia Army Group, the Hat Yai and Southern Thailand Army Groups begin combined operations to encircle the forward field army of the PLA.

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The day ends with the 4th Army Group's attack on the flanks of Białystok having only made moderate progress; the city's garrison is barely in a salient, let alone surrounded.

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The 9th Army Group's salients north and south of Mykolaiv meet, but by now, only two SVR divisions are left in the city, and both are rated as low-quality.

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The North Gulf Army Group surrounds Kuwait City over land, in theory. In practice, the encirclement ring is only 5 km wide to the north and there is no contravallation in that direction, and the sea route for supplying the Kuwait Army Group is fully open.

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The Yunnan Army Group manages to fully surround Chiang Rai; the headquarters of the Chiang Rai Army Group is in the city, and the perimeter is defended by three field armies of which one is territorial; fighting continues within the city itself.

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In math class, the teacher presents a word problem about motion and Pekka asks if it makes sense in the context of ships. The teacher tells him yes, but not before other students snicker and one says “Look who's going to the navy.”

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Taslima talks to Hussain Mirza, the head of marketing of a small drone maker with a police contract, who comes off to her as hoping for a bigger military contract. She asks him about drone photography and he rattles off all the ways his product could help if she can pay €15,000.

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Hernandez is told that they're going to transition to melee fighting techniques starting next week and she'd better be in top shape if she wants to continue the course; the trainer who tells her this acts like this is going to demoralize her, but hearing it makes her feel better.

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Goh, Ang, and Lai go to the same base they went to yesterday. A naik who Goh recognizes as one of their escorts from yesterday tells her that their stories are still being checked, but for now, they will report to this base every weekday to assist, but he's vague about what with.

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The North Malaysia Army Group finds a gap in the Thai lines and surges north, aiming to wedge itself between the Southern Thailand Army Group and Bangkok.