Operation Wild West (World of Sultans)

Operation Wild West was the Confederate States of America's invasion of the Republic of Texas, that started on September 1, 1940 and ended on October 5, 1944. The Confederate Army was at first, successful in the invasion, after receiving some limited military support from Nazi Germany.

During the presidency of white supremacist Thomas Dixon Jr., the Confederate States had gotten into an oil dispute with the Republic of Texas, after the Texan government issued an oil embargo against the Confederate States, due to anger caused by the Confederate States' alliance with Germany.

In addition, Dixon Jr. wanted to invade Texas, because he believed that its government had corrupted and perverted the the idea of a righteous Christian government by embracing multiculturalism and refusing to persecute to African Texans, Jewish Texans, Native Texans, Tejanos and Catholics. He also needed a state like Texas to provide logistical support the Confederate forces and living space for the Confederate people, similar to Hitler's lebensraum policies, and predicted that Texas would have been the breadbasket of the Confederate States.

The operation was to run on three phases: the first phase was to conquer eastern Texas, and then central and later western Texas. The Confederate forces only successfully completed the first phase, and collapsed during the second phase. The Republic of Texas also began a military alliance with the Russian Empire and Soviet Russia, allowing the Texas Army to recieve Russian arms, which became far-superior to those used by the Confederate forces.

Confederate-Texas Relations in the 1930s
The Confederate States and the Republic of Texas shared many similarities, in that both of them specialized in agrarian economies and were under right-wing Christian regimes. However, their ideologies had differences, and those differences began to radicalize under the Confederate presidency of Thomas Dixon Jr.

Thomas Dixon Jr. disagreed with the Texan government's decision to create a "multi-ethnic" country of varying Christian denominations, especially the Texan government's non-hostility towards African Americans, Jews and Catholics, Dixon Jr. favored a Protestant nation with only Protestants being considered citizens.

President Thomas Dixon Jr. had many meetings with various presidents of Texas, including Ross Sterling, Miriam Ferguson, James Allred and W. Lee O'Daniel.

James Allred and W. Lee O'Daniel were both cynical of Dixon Jr.'s regime. During a conversation with his secretary of war, R. Ewing Thomason, Allred told Thomason, "Thomas Dixon Jr. is a reminsciant of the Antichrist, he is an unstable ruler, who will drive the Confederate States of America to the ground. We need to keep our watch on him, in the case that he, or another Confederate leader inevitably decides to send troops on our soil. Thomas Dixon Jr. stands for everything that the Confederate States of America was against, a military state, and the extermination of non-whites, even if they be faithful Christians."

It is when O'Daniel not only heard of Dixon Jr.'s holocaust of non-whites, as well as Jews and Catholics; but that he had forged an alliance with Nazi Germany and had been receiving supplies from them, that he officially embargoed cattle and oil exports to the Confederate States, thus angering Dixon Jr. In addition, O'Daniel ordered the immediate withdrawal of Hispanic Texan or "Tejano" diplomats to the Confederate States.

Dixon Jr. also stated that the Confederate States needed a state like Texas, as it did during the Civil War, to provide the Confederate forces with logistical and material support. The rich oil fields of Texas was a key target of Dixon Jr.

Dixon Jr. emulated Adolf Hitler's various moves with Soviet Russia and the Russian Empire, tricking the Texans by having them sign the Texas-Confederate Non-Aggression Pact. However, president O'Daniel also knew of Hitler, and had deep suspicions that Dixon Jr. was planning an invasion of Texas behind his back.

The Invasion Begins - Phase 1
The Confederate invasion of Texas began on September 1, 1940, when the Confederate Army and the Confederate Air Force carried out blitzkrieg attacks against eastern Texas, as Phase 1 of Operation Wild West.

The Confederate Army, numbered 2,500,000 against 5,000,000 of the Texas Army's Eastern Front. Despite being outnumbered, the Confederate Army had the advantage in terms of military technology and training. The Confederate Army drove the Texas out of Dallas, Ft. Worth and Houston. After fierce fighting and heavy losses on both sides, the last-standing stronghold of the Texas Army, Houston, fell to the Confederate forces. After the Battle of Houston, Waco fell to the Confederate forces.

Phase 2 - The Central Offensive
Thomas Dixon Jr.'s decision to halt the Confederate invasion in Houston was his biggest blunder. Despite opposition from his field commanders, Dixon Jr. halted the invasion once the Confederate invasion reached the doorsteps of Austin, where the Texas Army was re-grouping.

Field Marshal Roy Turner of the 3rd Army of Oklahoma, suggested that the Confederate forces attack the pockets of Texan forces stationed in and around Waco, where he could meet up with Marshal Francis Cherry's 5th Army of Arkansas and they could both pincer and encircle the Texan forces in Austin.

However, Dixon Jr. declined, ordering Turner to advance the invasion west and reinforce Marshal Johnston Murray's 1st Army of Oklahoma in their invasion of the Texan city of Wichita Falls. Turner's forces however, encountered a brutal attack from Texas Army and Texas Ranger regiments near Albene.

Turner was therefore, forced to divide the 3rd Army of Oklahoma into a Northern Army and a Southern Army. The Northern Army was to advance to Wichita Falls, and the Southern Army was to advance towards Albene to eliminate the Texan threat. The 1st and 2nd Brazos Divisions of the Texas Army attempted a counteroffensive against Turner's advancing Northern Army, but the operation was disastrious, and resulted in the capture of 102,313 Texas Army troops.

The Northern Army reached the city of Benjamin, where they encountered the 1st Benjamin Rifle Division of the Texas Army. The Northern Army took 23,664 Texan Army prisoners, killing 30,429 and injuring 12,440 at the loss of 9,535.

However, the Southern Army was destroyed by the Texan defenders of Albene, and their advance was halted.

General Kindall Paulk of the Wichita Falls Battalion, learned of the situation near Albene. Therefore, he came up with a plan, and withdrew all forces from Wichita Falls, let the Confederate forces in, and then trap and encircle them. By this point, the Northern Army was already too exhausted, but the Confederate High Command in Richmond would not let them rest, and ordered them to conquer Wichita Falls, ASAP and by any means possible.

The Northern Army braced for the worst, however when they reached the city and rendevouzed with McMath's 1st Army of Oklahoma, they faced no resistance. McMath and Turner both susepected that it was a bait, and used civilian prisoners dressed as Confederate troops to go to the outskirts of Wichita Falls to bait the Texas Army into attacking them.

However, Texas Rangers reported back to Marshal Thornton that the "Confederate troops" were civilian captives being used as bait. Therefore, Thornton issued an order to all generals not to attack.

Convinced that Wichita Falls was taken with no resistance, Marshal McMath reported to Richmond that there was no resistance in Wichita Falls. McMath and Turner both let their armies take a break, and use the city's resources to refuel. However, just when the Confederates where in their most unsuspecting moment, Paulk's forces attacked the Confederates at midnight during their slumber and ordered a "no retreat" policy, fighting Confederate soldiers from house to house.

After Paulk's forces inflicted enough casualities on McMath and Turner's forces, the Albene regiments arrived. The Confederate forces surrendered in Wichita Falls.

Meanwhile, Marshal Cherry's 5th Army of Arkansas was fighting the Texans in Austin. Marshal Cherry fought against a combination of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Eldorado Regiments, 3rd and 6th Brady Rifle Divisions, 1st, 4th, 5th and 6th Austin Divisions, as well as the remnants of the Eastern Front. Afterwards, the beleugered Confederate forces surrendered in Austin.

The capitulations of the Confederate forces in Austin and Wichita Falls marked the first surrenders of the Confederate Army.

By 1943, the Texan armaments production was in full force. In addition, the Confederate Army was severly frightened by the Texan government's next move: a military deal with Soviet Russia. The Texas Army's use of Russian weapons enabled them outgun the Confederates in close-quarter combat.

Fresh reinforcements, from the Western Front, now equipped with tanks and cavalry, drove the Confederate forces out of San Antonio, and reinforced Texas' central defenses.

Marshal Robert Thornton of the newly-formed Austin Front, was notified by Texas Rangers that the Confederates were performing another offensive, this time into Waco, where they had hoped to break the Texan counteroffensives by disrupting their encirclement.

The Confederates had 4,240 cavalry, and 863,555 strong infantrymen. The Texas Army met head-on with the Confederates with more than 1,400 tanks, 3,500 cavalry and 2,130,424 infantrymen. The Battle of Waco would end up becoming one of World War II's largest cavalry battles, ending up in a decisive strategic victory for the Texas Army. The Texas Army also flushed out pockets of Confederate forces in Temple and Belton.

At this point, with a bridgehead now established between Austin, San Antonio, Waco and Wichita Falls, the Texas Army was now ready to liberate Ft. Worth. The citizens of Ft. Worth had already been engaged in a militia war against the Confederate forces. The reinforcements from Wichita Falls and Waco drove the Confederates out of Ft. Worth.

The Texas Navy also transported millions of fresh reinforcements into Houston, and shelled Confederate outposts in Houston. The U.S. Air Force also carried out aerial raids against Confederate strongholds.

At this point, the Confederate forces were now on the defensive side, with Dixon Jr. ordering reserves in Texas to be re-deployed back east into the Confederate realm, to defend from American forces up north.

Confederate generals in western Oklahoma disagreed with Dixon Jr.'s to pull forces east, noting that a possible attack from the Texas Army's Northern Front, however KKK officers arrived and shot the officers, or anyone who questioned Dixon Jr.'s decisions. Confederate troops in southwestern Oklahoma reported of high military buildup in Texas' northern borders, however Dixon Jr. argued that the Texas Army would not dare step a foot into Confederate soil.

Texas Northern Front Attacks Oklahoma
Gather more than 45,500 artillery pieces, the Texas Army began an artillery barrage into southwestern Oklahoma. This caused huge casualities for border forces in Oklahoma. The city of Shattuck suffered the most, the artillery barrage resulted in the death of 97,422 Confederate soldiers in Oklahoma, injuring another 13,702.

American forces from Kansas were attacking from the the north. It is then that the Northern Front decided to make their move, the 2nd Amarillo Battalions, consisting of five rifle divisions, and three mechanize corps, as well as forces from Canadian and Lipscomb inititated the Western Oklahoma Offensive.

By the end of 1943, faced with depleted military resources, all Confederate forces in Oklahoma surrendered to the Allies. Those that did not surrender retreated into Arkansas, or fled elsewhere into the Confederate States.

1944: Crumbling of the Dixonist Regime
Thomas Dixon Jr. was reported to have suffered a mental breakdown, and ordered the random executions of officers, that even looked incompentent. In a letter sent to one of his officers in Oklahoma (who fled to Arkansas) it read, "How can you all let this happen? We are a bigger and greater nation than Texas, and yet, you let our great empire fall to such a small and feeble nation of cowboys? I need to see you all in Richmond, ASAP."

On September 5, 1944, Dixon Jr. fled Richmond by flight, leaving his family behind in Richmond, although with heavy protection from both Confederate Army and KKK forces. Dixon Jr. promised his family he'd return, with a "freshly God-sent force", to ensure the Dixie Fatherland victory.

Dixon Jr. was headed to Germany, to seek counsel from Hitler. However, little did he know, Germany was under Soviet and Russian Imperial siege. His plane was shot down by Soviet Air Forces, and he was captured by Red Army troops.

The Texas Army used Thomas Dixon Jr.'s capture to phscologically frighten the Dixonist regime into surrendering. Using a captured radio station in Louisiana, Texan Secretary of War announced, "People of the Confederate States of America, your leader has left you, and betrayed you to face your downfall. He betrayed the minute he sent soldiers on the great Republic of Texas! Your leader knows that the Confederate Army has failed, and has fled Richmond. His plane was shot down by the Soviets, and he is in Russian captivity. To all of Thomas Dixon Jr.'s supporters and minions, to the Confederate forces, to the Ku Klux Klan, to William David, surrender now, or we will reach Richmond. We have already captured three of your states."

Afterwards, most of the states surrendered to the Allies. William David, the Confederate Secretary of War met with this Texan counterpart in Montgomery, Alabama to discuss the terms of surrender. Both secretaries of war agreed that the Confederate States of America keep its military forces, as long as it reverses all of Thomas Dixon Jr.'s doing.

After the Treaty of Montgomery was signed, William David announced Thomas Dixon Jr. as a traitor, and a national disgrace. William Jennings Bryan, Jr, the son of William Jennings Bryan, was sworn in as the new President of the Confederate States of America. Under the Bryan Administration, all KKK members were to disarm, disband and surrender, and all Confederate forces were to renounce all their loyalty to Dixon Jr. Anybody who refused the order was to be sent to a concentration camp and killed.