Operation Sekinin
February 13, 2027
Time: 9:00 JST

Orders from Tokio were clear: focus on the APLA, destroy the Shina puppet.

Nippon had four armored divisions with which to defeat the armies of four different factions. She was outnumbered, outgunned, and in foreign territory. What Nippon had this time, however, was airpower. Seven hundred Generation 4 Close Airs Support fighters were set to arrive at Minot Air Force Base within days. Neither the communist nor the fascist factions were known to have an air force. Through overwhelming air superiority and lightning fast armored divisions, the hope is that breakthroughs can be established quickly and easily to surround and destroy the enemy.

The first objective is to secure the Twin Cities region. Nippon had learned from the Intervention into Xinjiang, when her armored divisions strayed too far from the allied capital and it fell to enemy forces. Once Nippon secures the Twin Cities, then the second objective is to retake Denver from the communists. The issue will be timing and whether Trump's militia can defend the remaining American territories from the opposing factions. Time was not on Nippon's side.

Takemoto knew this, and he knew he needed to move fast.