With our Japanese allies fallen, the outlook for the 1000 Year Reich looks grim. The revitalized American Army landed not in Morocco as thought, but stormed ashore through our Vichy allies (I knew those guys would disappoint!).
A large allied army is not entrenched there & we do not have the forces available to mount an immediate counterattack - it remains to be seen if we are able to contain this second front.
The creation of this "Second Front" has reset our defense priorities. Our forces in the Middle East & Africa are no longer in position to help our defense - so we withdrew from Iraq (and built a more defensible line in TransJordan) and brought as many troops home as we could manage. We also withdrew from Morocco, creating a more compact perimeter with more forces.
We also sent our U-Boats against the combined Allied Fleet in the Western Med & scored much success - damaging a fleet carrier and sinking several transports. More subs are coming off the lines & we plan to make it very, very expensive to keep Allied warships within range of our U-Boats.
In the East, despite the frigid winter (although Russian prisoners say that the Winter of 1941 was much worse) we continued our offensive against the Red Army. Our Finnish allies advaned to take Archangelsk, while our own forces moved through the Ukraine & into the Caucusus - capturing Kharkov & Rostov & linking with our forces that had seized the oil fields (further damaging Russia's resource base).
We also advanced through Belorussia & towards Smolensk. Like two giant jaws, the two halves of our offensive prepare to close around Moscow - hopefully destroying the Russian beast & allowing us to turn our full force agains the Americans. We look to the beginnings of 1943 with much trepidation, but some hope that we may survive this war somewhat intact.
