Pacific Northwest insurgency (Atlantic Resolve)

An insurgency broke out in U.S. and Canadian territory occupied by Russian ground forces one month into the Third World War and continues to this day. The first phase of the insurgency was fought between the Federation Occupational Authority - North America and the U.S./Canadian-backed American Resistance. This phase lasted through most of World War III and continued into the post-war era. There was a short truce between the American Resistance and the Russian occupational forces as both sides fought against the Alt-Right Movement during the Cascadian presidential crisis. The second phase of the insurgency began when the Cascadian Federation was granted independence and the American Resistance continued fighting against the CSTO peacekeeping forces as well as the new Cascadian government with the latter officially labeled as collaborators by the Resistance. The third phase of the insurgency began in 2019 when the Red Cascadian Army, the militant wing of the Revolutionary Cascadian Communist Movement (RCCM), rose up as a third faction in the ongoing insurgency. This new phase of the insurgency ran concurrent with the previous and was considered a part of the Sino-Russian Cold War with the People's Republic of China supporting the Red Cascadian Army.

Background
On December 23rd, 2015, the Russian military had begun a full-scale invasion of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada, followed by a secondary invasion of Alaska on Christmas Day. The first week of the war saw intense fighting throughout the region where the Russians were landing, particularly within the towns and cities affected. The Battles of Seattle and Portland were especially bad with a large portion of both cities being devastated by heavy urban warfare. With most active duty military personnel normally based in the area currently deployed overseas to Europe, the Middle East, and the Korean Peninsula, the US Army National Guard was practically the only military opposition that the Russians faced in the early days of hostilities. Law enforcement officers and some armed civilians fought alongside the National Guard though they were ultimately overpowered by the Russians by the end of the first week. The New Year had begun with the Russians having secured dozens of towns and cities throughout Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

First phase of the insurgency
The first phase of the Pacific Northwest insurgency broke out one month from the start of World War III when the American Resistance began a series of guerrilla attacks against Russian forces occupying U.S. and Canadian soil. The United States and Canada actively backed the rebellion in an effort to slow the ongoing Russian ground offensives throughout North America. Special operations forces were often sent behind enemy lines to assist the rebels. In addition to typical insurgent attacks such as ambushes, improvised explosive devices, and raids on lightly defended garrisons, the American Resistance also conducted reconnaissance which was relayed to the U.S. and Canadian militaries. As the guerilla attacks worsened, the Russians began taking steps maintain order including stepping up counterinsurgency operations, imposing round-the-clock curfews in suspected insurgent strongholds, and banning travel for all but the most privileged citizens. Areas of Interstate 5 and the Pacific Crest Trail under Russian control were locked out with any Americans seen on either being considered insurgents and dealt with as such.

The insurgency played a crucial role in helping the U.S. Marines to successfully defend San Francisco and Sacramento which greatly increased morale. The American Resistance prepared to coordinate with a major U.S. counterattack which was set to begin in late August 2016. However the planned offensive was cancelled when President Barack Obama signed an armistice agreement with the All-Russian Federation, effectively seen by many as surrender. Over the following months, Russian reinforcements and a contingent of Serbian troops arrived in North America which significantly reduced the effectiveness of the American Resistance. The only hope remaining for the rebellion was that the United States and Canada were technically still at war with Russia even though all major combat operations had ended. That was until the signing of the Treaty of Fort Ross which formally ended the Third World War.

Despite the end of the global war, the American Resistance continued to carry out operations against the Russian occupation while the United States and Canada still offered statements of support; while neither could support the rebellion directly due to the treaty, both used the Japanese and Australians as intermediaries to send them weapons and supplies. The North American Parliament also played an unofficial yet crucial role in supporting the guerrillas. There was a short-lived truce between the American Resistance and the Federation Occupational Authority during the Cascadian presidential crisis. The Alt-Right Movement, while essential during wartime, had fallen out of favor with the Russians during peacetime with Lana Lokteff and her followers pushing for the creation of a Cascadian Reich. As a result, both sides in the Pacific Northwest insurgency agreed that the Alt-Right Movement was a far greater threat and decided to work together to eliminate said threat. Once the Alt-Right was vanquished and Lana Lokteff killed, the truce broke down with fighting resuming between occupation forces and the resistance.

Second Phase of the insurgency
On 25 August 2017, the Russians granted the Cascadian Federation the status of a sovereign nation with its own government. Despite this development, the American Resistance continued to carry out guerrilla warfare against both the Russian-led CSTO peacekeeping forces and the Cascadian government. Resistance leaders stated that the Russian and CSTO peacekeepers were still an occupying force and that all members of the "so-called" Cascadian government were collaborators. Thus the second phase of the Pacific Northwest insurgency had begun.