War on Terror (Dutch Superpower)

{{Infobox war2 {{DuS|Anglo-Dutch Union}} {{DuS|South Africa}}2010-N/A {{DuS|India}} 2002 - N/A {{DuS|Australia}} 2002-2004 {{DuS|Germany}}2002 - N>A {{DuS|Japan}} 2005-N/A {{DuS|Iran}} 2002-2006 {{{DuS|United States of America}} 2006-N/A {{DuS|Arab League}} 2002-N/A {{DuS|Aceh Liberation Army}} 2002-2004 and 2007-N/A Islamic Republic of Aceh 2003-2005 Tamil Tigers 2002-2007 Iran 2006-N/A Egypt 2002-N/A Malaysia 2002-2007 Afghanistan 2002-2007 {{DuS|North Russia}} Afghanistan 2007-N/A God’s Army of Central Asia 2002 - N/A Malaysia 2007-N/A China 2007-N/A Indonesia 2002-N/A General Markus Davies 2006 - N/A General Walter Natynczyk 2002-2006 Admiral Mark Stanhope 2002 - N/A General George Konstantine 2002-2005 General Neil Clarke Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne Admiral Osama Bin Laden General Moamar Gaddafi General Mubarak Marshal Alexi Zhukov 300,000 Men 150,000 Men, 50,000 Men 30,000 Men 20,000 Men 2000 Combat Aircraft, 400 Helicopters 1500 Combat Aircraft 200,000 Regular soldiers Up to 1,000,000 men indirectly employed by the league 100,000 Men 250,000 Men 200,000 Men 400,000 Men 500,000 Men }}
 * conflict=War on Terror
 * place=The Middle East and Indonesia
 * result=
 * Fall of the Aceh Liberation Army regime in Indonesia
 * Shri Lanka occupied as Anglo-Dutch military regime
 * Union forces withdraw from South Africa
 * {{DuS|Russia}} siezes control of Afghan government
 * {{DuS|Arab League}} forces occupy Iran
 * battles= *{{DuS|Iran-League Conflict}}
 * Russian Occupation of Afghanistan
 * Shri lankan civil war
 * Aceh insurgency
 * status=Ongoing
 * combatants_header = Alliances
 * combatant1= North Sea Alliance
 * combatant2= Arab League
 * combatant3= Central Asian Alliance
 * commander1=
 * commander2=
 * commander3=
 * strength1=
 * Anglo-Dutch Army
 * United States Army
 * Japanese Army
 * South African Army
 * German Army
 * Indian Air Force
 * Australian Air Force
 * strength2=
 * Arab League
 * Afghan Army
 * Aceh Liberation Army
 * Malaysian Army
 * strength3=
 * Russian Army
 * Indonesian Army
 * casualties1= 20,000Military casualties, 150,000 civilian casualties.
 * casualties2= 150,000 Military Casualties, 300,000 Civilian casualties
 * casualties3= 50,000 Military Casualties, 100,000 Civilian casualties

The war on terror, alternatively known as the Great Game, Anglo-Russian Skirmish or the Russo-Arab conflict has been a series of military and political conflicts in the Middle East and South East Asia. Unlike the preceeding Anglo-Dutch civil war the War on Terror has not involved a major conflict between waring powers but has instead been a series of limited wars and terrorist attacks since 2002. It originated out of the rise of Russian and Arab League power in the aftermath of the civil war and the continued decline of the Anglo-Dutch backed dictatorship in Indonesia.

The Arab League
In the aftermath of the dismissal of the Ottoman Russian National assembaly and the shutting down of the liberal Ottoman Parliament the various rebel movements that existed in the empires eastern regions, the Arab, Syrian, Kurdish , Iraqi and Israeli provinces had united to form the Arab League, a lose coalition of militia and rebel movements that allied together to form a cohesive army under the leadership of the renowned Israeli rebel leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu led the Arab League through the Anglo-Dutch civil war and destroyed the Ottoman empire in a climatic battle at the gates of Istanbul where the Ottoman Sultan ended his days strung upside down on a spike by Al-Quaeda operatives loyal to the Arabian rebel leader Osama Bin Laden. In the aftermath of the League’s victory in alliance with the Beatrixians devisions began to emerge within the league however. Netanyahu had always believed the league to be a temporary alliance of nations and alongside Yassar Arafat intended to take Israel-Palestine out of the league as soon as he had there victory against the Ottomans.

Bin Laden had a different view however and when Israel-Palestine left the League in 2001 after Beatrix’s Coronation he took advantage of the power vacuum to establish himself as the leagues foremost leader. In the aftermath of the Beatrixian victory his Al-Quaeda operatives established him as the League’s president and he took command of a federation of the six nations united in the league. Bin Laden viewed continued Union involvement in the middle east as a affront to Islam and an insult to its independence. He knew that challenging the Union militarily could only result in his destruction but he realized that if he challenged the Union through domestic actions, threatening the lives of its civilians he might be able to force the Union to withdraw from the Middle East.

Russian Reunification
During the Anglo-Dutch Civil war one of the key areas of conflict had been in Russia where the two conflicting powers of the Ottoman backed Ottoman Russia and the NSA backed North Russia co-existed. During the civil war the two russian states, long at each others throats decided to go to war and the resulting conflict resulted in the victory of North Russian over its southern rival and the reestablishment of russia as a global power.

The newly unified russia was not without its devisions though, in particular the militarist wing of the Russian government headed by Yeltsin and Marshall Zuhkov believed that the aftermath of a global war that had resulted in the deaths of millions was the perfect opportunity for the newly reunified russia to show its influence on the global stage. Russia could reoccupy its ancestral territories in central asia and would once again be recognized as a global power. The Union and the League both stood in the way of this ambition however. The Union would not tolerate another power intervening in land that it viewed as under its protection and the league would not tolerate another christian power in the east, especially one that would not be afraid to act militarily against the league.

Indonesian Rebellion
The first glimmers that the Arab league might be deigning to challenge the Union came in the long suppressed Indonesian republic. The arab league, with decades of experience in fermenting dissent realized that if the Indonesian’s could be convinced to stand against the Union it would not only spread the power of the league in the far east but would impact the union because of the Union’s almost complete dependence on the Indonesian oil fields. If Indonesia could be made to rebel against the Union it would force the union to reconsider their relationship with the arab world and the league in general.

The first news of this rebellion came barely three months after the end of the Union Civil War and the reestablishment of the Union when an isolated Union outpost was infiltrated by League operatives who blew up a Union oil tanker just out of Aceh, causing the deaths of four thousand men and polluting the seas around indonesia. This sparked the initial indonesian rebellion with the Islamic forces in Indonesia loyal to the league rising up and defeating most of the Indonesian government, destroying most of the Union forces on the island and throwing out the Union garrison.

Initially the Indonesian government in exile appealed to the Union in London but the Convention parliament, already swamped with requests for aid from its allies decided to turn down the indonesians. The Indonesian government then turned to its allies in Russia who had fought alongside the Indonesian forces in the far east during the civil war. The Russia government was at this point still reluctant to actively act against its former allies in the Union. However General Zuhkov decided to travel with several of his men from the Civil War from both the Union and the Russian armies to aid the Indonesian government to aid them in there counter offensive.

Zuhkov met up with the remnants of the Russian forces in Indonesia who had not yet left to return to there home-country and alongside those Indonesian and Anglo-Dutch forces that had not been captured or defected organized a counter strike against the islamists. Russian troops under Zuhkov raided Indonesian army depots stealing tanks and aircraft that zuhkov’s army were proficient with and establishing a bastion of Russian control in Papua from where they conducted air strikes and military operations against the Islamist government.

Zuhkov knew that without the support of either the Indonesian people or the Russian government he did not have the numbers to take on the Islamist regime and regardless of his vastly superior technology and military tactics he could not win without people to man his equipment and fight his battles. He organized conscription in Papua and then marshaled his forces into a cohesive mix of Russians, Indonesians, Englishmen and Dutchmen who called themselves the Indonesian Peoples Army. The IPA, with aid from the Russian Pacific fleet (acting under the auspices of “protecting” russian citizens) struck out from Papua, launching amphibious assaults on Borneo and Java with air support from both stolen fighters and the Russian Navies MiG-28’s.

The Anglo-Dutch seeing how the wind was blowing and realizing that if they continued to sit on the sidelines they would lose the support of the Indonesians (And there oil) dispatched the Pacific Fleet from Singapore and landed a 200,000 strong Marine expeditionary force under General Edward Watson. Backed up by the mighty forces of the Pacific Fleet and the overwhelming air superiority that it provided the pacific MEF advanced along the Aceh coastline, engaging and destroying the remnants of the Indonesian army.

The Pacific Fleet had arrived to late to make an impact in the referendum that followed however and the Russian’s under Zuhkov was successful in getting their appointee for the presidency elected. The first act of the new Indonesian administration was to evict the remaining Anglo-Dutch forces, ensuring that regardless of what the Union might wish Indonesia had finally won true independence from them. The Muslim Armies, battered and broken retreated into the countryside and their leaders fled into the Aceh countryside to plan their revenge.

Attack on the World Trade Center
Their revenge would not be long in arriving and the target was the Union’s capital London with secondary attacks planned on Moscow. The failed Aceh rebellion had convinced the Al-Quaeda leadership that their struggle against western involvement in the middle east and the muslim world could not be won in a conventional war. The union and the russians commanded armies and fleets of aircraft and ships that a small organization could never match. While insurgencies such as the one in Indonesia could distract the governments of the Union and Russia any insurgency that became to successful and took on the governing of a country would be doomed to failure as the Anglo-Dutch and Russians both took very dim reviews on the presence of unfriendly governments in territory that they considered to be under there protection.

If the Anglo-Dutch and Russian populace could be convinced that involvement in the middle east would only result in the deaths of there fellow citizens they might then put pressure of there respective governments to withdraw from the Middle East. The best way to do this would be to cause a huge loss of life in a high profile attack. Various targets were suggested but the one that most of Al-Quaeda's commanders believed would cause the largest shock and impact on the Anglo-Dutch population and the Global media was the World Trade Center in Amsterdam, home of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and the UN commission on Global Trade. An attack on the World Trade Center would inevitably cause huge casualties and shock the world. More so than a simple attack with rockets and mortars the attack had to be eye catching and be something that the Dutch people would never forget.

For this reason the symbol of the Anglo-Dutch Union’s commercial supremacy KLM airlines was the instrument with which the destruction would be carried out. Osama Bin Laden’s own elite death squads, veterans from the civil war were snuck aboard KLM flight 167, packed with explosives by Islamists working in America. Just before the flight began its final approach to London Thames Airport hijackers took control of the planes cockpit and flew it into the trade centers centerpiece, One Canada Square vaporizing the towers central column and killing three thousand people instantly with two thousand more later dying from their injuries. In a single action the Arab League and its allies had showed their hand and shocked the Union in a way that few actions before or since had done. By eight hours after the attack Union PM Pim Fortuyn appeared on the news, announcing new laws cracking down on extremists and promising to find the perpetrators. Twenty - Four hours after that 200,000 more Anglo-Dutch troops were dispatched to the Middle East.