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Coleman’s Gamble
The professor walks into the room and performs his usual routine before starting up the days lecture.
“Churchill’s speech as it was intended to, galvanized the English proletariat behind the war effort. But it also had several other unexpected effects. General Michaels and Admiral Henry both assumed correctly that a counter-attack was imminent. This foresight was of course to prove vital in the coming month, but well cover that in another lecture. It also started a course of events that would eventually lead to the destruction of the Democratic Party.”
“As we discussed in the last lecture, President Coleman’s advisors had told him that the English would be eager to end the war as soon as possible. Churchill’s speech made Coleman began to think of this invasion not as the hit and run operation as was originally planned. Instead he informed General Michaels to quote “Get comfortable, we could be here for a while.””
“Why the sudden change of heart? Well the commencement of the invasion installed a new confidence of their president’s abilities into the American people. Coleman was finally making good on his 1916 promises to “End the great war using any means necessary”. His reelection campaign, which up to this point he was in serious danger of losing, had been literally revived overnight. In some states there were lead swings large as 15 points. The earlier decision to launch a summer operation instead of a fall one was indeed paying political dividends.”
“This unprecedented change of events delighted Coleman, and he decided to milk it for all that it was worth. So when a message offering peace arrived from London he was afraid that if the war ended too soon he might lose his advantage by the time November rolled around. So he made the fateful decision to ignore the peace proposal and needlessly prolong the war a month or two. At least that was the plan.”
“This information was of course not to leave the White House. Previous administrations had used the media to manipulate public opinion before and the current president was no different. Information was leaked to several papers that London was still silent and the Army was prepared to force the issue. And in an amazing show of loyalty, not one member of the administration said otherwise. The reason behind this was part self-preservation and part that most everyone in the know thought the dated English Army was no match for the modern mechanized American forces. This was true as far as the English; this time without Persian support could not compete technologically. Unknown to the joint chiefs however was the fact that they more then made up for this through massive numbers. But again I’m getting ahead of myself here.”
“The public and congress had no reason to question the stories and bought them hook, line, and sinker. Support for the president swelled and congress allocated more money to the military budget. These extra funds were used to rush the preparation of the next wave of the invasion. With the extra money the second wave including the carrier Enterprise, would be ready to sail in Early October; a full month and a half earlier then originally scheduled.”
Ok class it seems we have ran out of time. For our next class be we will switch our focus from New York back to Warwick just in time for the English counterattack, or as I like to call it “The Human Tsunami of 1920”.
The professor walks into the room and performs his usual routine before starting up the days lecture.
“Churchill’s speech as it was intended to, galvanized the English proletariat behind the war effort. But it also had several other unexpected effects. General Michaels and Admiral Henry both assumed correctly that a counter-attack was imminent. This foresight was of course to prove vital in the coming month, but well cover that in another lecture. It also started a course of events that would eventually lead to the destruction of the Democratic Party.”
“As we discussed in the last lecture, President Coleman’s advisors had told him that the English would be eager to end the war as soon as possible. Churchill’s speech made Coleman began to think of this invasion not as the hit and run operation as was originally planned. Instead he informed General Michaels to quote “Get comfortable, we could be here for a while.””
“Why the sudden change of heart? Well the commencement of the invasion installed a new confidence of their president’s abilities into the American people. Coleman was finally making good on his 1916 promises to “End the great war using any means necessary”. His reelection campaign, which up to this point he was in serious danger of losing, had been literally revived overnight. In some states there were lead swings large as 15 points. The earlier decision to launch a summer operation instead of a fall one was indeed paying political dividends.”
“This unprecedented change of events delighted Coleman, and he decided to milk it for all that it was worth. So when a message offering peace arrived from London he was afraid that if the war ended too soon he might lose his advantage by the time November rolled around. So he made the fateful decision to ignore the peace proposal and needlessly prolong the war a month or two. At least that was the plan.”
“This information was of course not to leave the White House. Previous administrations had used the media to manipulate public opinion before and the current president was no different. Information was leaked to several papers that London was still silent and the Army was prepared to force the issue. And in an amazing show of loyalty, not one member of the administration said otherwise. The reason behind this was part self-preservation and part that most everyone in the know thought the dated English Army was no match for the modern mechanized American forces. This was true as far as the English; this time without Persian support could not compete technologically. Unknown to the joint chiefs however was the fact that they more then made up for this through massive numbers. But again I’m getting ahead of myself here.”
“The public and congress had no reason to question the stories and bought them hook, line, and sinker. Support for the president swelled and congress allocated more money to the military budget. These extra funds were used to rush the preparation of the next wave of the invasion. With the extra money the second wave including the carrier Enterprise, would be ready to sail in Early October; a full month and a half earlier then originally scheduled.”
Ok class it seems we have ran out of time. For our next class be we will switch our focus from New York back to Warwick just in time for the English counterattack, or as I like to call it “The Human Tsunami of 1920”.
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