American Resistance (The Era of Relative Peace)

The American Resistance is a loose term referring to state militias, armed civilian insurgents, and law enforcement officers operating in areas of Soviet-occupied Washington State and Alaska. The resistance mainly operated alongside U.S. military and National Guard units, attacking Soviet positions behind enemy lines.

Operations
The resistance mainly used asymmetric warfare against the Soviet occupiers. These include hit-and-run attacks against Soviet convoys and supply lines, sabotage, setting up booby traps, and intelligence gathering. These operations were crucial in aiding military units scattered throughout the occupied states. Resistance fighters were responsible for causing destruction to initial Soviet defenses around Seattle, Tacoma, and Bremerton, thus easing the job of the Army and the National Guard during the liberation of these areas. In Alaska, resistance fighters utilized the rugged terrain to their advantage, bogging down the Soviets in Anchorage. They were also able to utilize several captured vehicles and use them against the occupiers.

Members
Members were mostly comprised of civilians, police officers, and pro-Cascadia secessionists. Most of the cases, civilians in the suburbs united and staged attacks on the Soviets. The Cascadian secessionist mainly operated in the Cascade Rainforest stretching from Washington down to Oregon and northern California then west to Idaho and occasionally crossing into British Columbia.

Equipment
Resistance fighters were mostly armed with whatever weapons they could find, ranging from baseball bats, handguns, revolvers, shotguns, hunting rifles, and assault rifles. Most of their military grade weapons include the M16A1/A2 or the AR-15 variants, obtained mainly from gun enthusiasts or abandoned U.S. military outposts. Captured AK-47 and AK-74s was also seen in most of their hands, along with Russian RPDs, RPKs, RPG-7s, and DSHk heavy machine guns. Their vehicle fleet mainly are composed of modified pick-up trucks with an M2 Browning .50 caliber heavy machine gun, an M1919 Browning .30 caliber machine gun, M60 general purpose machine gun, or captured Russian MGs. Humvees, M35 Trucks, and captured Soviet GAZ-39s were witnessed to be in Resistance hands. The air force was composed of civilian planes and helicopters modified with machine guns and bombs since captured military aircraft was deemed impractical to operated for civilian level. Their navy was composed of modified speedboats, private leisure craft, and police boats armed with machine guns.

Flags and Symbolism
While the American Resistance had no official flag, the 50-star U.S. flag was the main symbol of the resistance. Other flags used in conjunction included the 13-star Betsy Ross flag, the Gadsden flag, and the flags of Washington and Alaska. "Cold Dead Hands" seemed to be their motto, taken up from the scene in Red Dawn (1984) in which a Soviet soldier can be seen taking an M1911 from a dead American civilian that decided to fight back. The resistance produced pro-American posters around occupied neighborhoods to encourage more to join their cause.