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Operation Ivory Prize (Part 8 of 9)
Indian Ocean Conflict Campaign
New World Order series
HDS3 IOPG Battleset
Struggling to retain international trade in the midst of problems with radioactive fallout and embargo, India's economy collapsed in 1999. But following this breakdown came the discovery of huge oil and mineral deposits in the Bay of Bengal. In Spring 2002 the NSC announced that India had invited them into a "partnership" whereby the NSC would assume responsibility for the military protection of India. The plan would include a newly declared 500 nm Exclusive
Economic Zone (EEZ) around the Indian subcontinent which encompassed the oil and mineral fields. Fearing the possibility of further regional domination by the NSC, an EU task force was dispatched to intervene. The EU and NSC had agreed by treaty not to use strategic nuclear weapons against their home territories in November 1998, but on the 21st century battlefield, there are no sure promises. The world in 2002 was a vastly different place than just a few years before, at the dawn of the new millenium. Welcome to the new world order. (Released September 2000).