File Name: Outside the Anglosphere

File Submitter: CV32

File Submitted: 19 Oct 2009

File Updated: 19 Oct 2009

File Category: South Atlantic

DB Used: HCDA-091019

Authors: Brad Leyte

Battleset-South Atlantic: .sct - CDB - CDB

 

Scenario Background:

 

Outside the Anglosphere

 

A Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) scenario for the South America battleset and the HCE Americas (HCDA) database.

 

This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side.

 

Novelist Neal Stephenson is credited with coining the term Anglosphere, referring to a community of nations that share not only the English language, but a "cultural heritage of liberty under the rule of law, honoring democratic forms of government, capitalism, individualism, willing delay of gratification, and adhering to covenants and contracts regardless of clan or community ties". There are many nations outside the anglosphere, however, some of them found within the New World. In Latin America, politics have always been fluid and fragile, and the new roots of democracy, established within the last few decades, are especially delicate.

 

Having finally put their economic houses in order, Brazil and Argentina embarked on a vast military modernization program, taking full advantage of the eagerness shown by France, Russia, and China to supply them with weapons and technology in exchange for access to their vast natural resources. This coincided with the emergence of new (though perhaps not unexpected) left wing governments which showed fervent dislike for the Anglosphere, and took every opportunity to point out the old scars of colonial exploitation.

 

Argentina has now taken advantage of a large scale joint exercise with Brazil and France to once again seize the Malvinas (Falklands).

 

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I just uploaded an updated version of this scenario, to fix something I had overlooked.

 

Apologies to the four (4) persons who had already downloaded the file.