Its like they read my mind. Clancy made a reference about Vladivostok being too much for Midway and her battlegroup to handle, which even at 14 I found preposterous. Ralph Peters had the U.S. planning to make a move in the Far East after the war in Germany was lost.
Scholars have devoted far less attention to the planning of World War III in East Asia than to the European theater. The two classic novels of the Third World War (Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising and John Hackett’s The Third World War) rarely touched on developments in Asia.
However, in the 1970s and 1980s, the Naval War College traced the potential course of war in East Asia as part of a series of global war games. These games lend a great deal of insight into the key actors in the conflict, and how the decisive battles of a Second Pacific War might have played out.
Which is why I started Operation Eastern Storm in the Pacific.
The above article talks about a massive Soviet attack on Japan, American moves against Vladivostok, etc, and what is the role of Korea in all this. For my money I think nothing happens in Korea as the potential for Chinese intervention was a massive wildcard. When would they intervene, and on which side. In 1990 we were more or less friends with China.
Anywho its an interesting scenario, one we will be delving back into in future volumes of World War 1990.
About the only WW3 book that covers a Pacific theater is Michael A Palmer's 'The War That Never Was'. There the fighting is a little back and forth at the start but the US/Japan/South Korea/Taiwan get the upper hand quite quickly. China stays neutral.
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