First Battle of Arlington (World War III)

The First Battle of Arlington was a major battle fought between American and separatist forces in Arlington County, Virginia. It would be the last major American victory in the Second American Civil War until the Secession of Virginia from the United States.

The South Virginia Army, under Texan, Mississippian and North Carolinian support, although successful in capturing most of Virginia from American forces, had been hampered by weeks and upon weeks of bloody and vicious combat with American forces and liberal militias all over Virginia.

General David Thorndike, the general of the 4th South Virginia Battalion urged Commander Lawrence Kershaw to make an attack on Arlington County, home of the Pentagon (consequently, a stronghold for the United States military). Commander Kershaw was initially reluctant at first, but seeing that General Thorndike was one of his more successful generals, Commander Kershaw allowed Thorndike to carry out with the offensive.

General Thorndike organized a force consisting of 1,003,010 personnel, including 430 tanks and 93 attack aircraft. However, most of the men were tired and burned out from the previous combat. Thorndike's forces attacked U.S. forces in Arlington County. The separatists also carried out bombings and destruction of mosques, and even synagogues, as well as Planned Parenthood centers. They raided hospitals and attacked abortion clinics, and killed doctors performing abortions.

The separatists also carried out attacks against Muslim and Hispanic communities, causing their desertion.

Citizens of Arlington County began to engage with the separatists, though often-not, ended up retreating since they did not have the firepower, and their manpower advantage was practically useless. New Black Panther units and Black Nationalist militias engaged in bloody combat with the separatists.

However, Thorndike's forces were too thinned out. Despite surrounding the city, and "claiming" it, American forces saw it as a perfect opportunity to pincer the separatist forces, and carried out small-scale operations against Thorndike's forces. The American attackers used small scale operations as a means of attrition warfare, and to completely deplete the separatists of not only bullets, but also ammunition. Hundreds to thousands were dying almost every day. Despite inflicting serious causalities on the U.S. forces, fresh American reinforcements arrived to finish off the rest of Thorndike's forces, who had already been fighting pockets of American attackers.



General Theodore Redding told the Americans, "It would only be the tip of the iceberg for these backwards schmucks". As the large scale American reinforcements arrived, with more tanks and attack helicopters, the two forces fought from house to house and street to street. The American reinforcements finished off the remnants of General Thorndike's forces. Thorndike himself, was forced to go into hiding, as his remaining men resorted to scavenger and guerrilla warfare tactics. Thorndike called Commander Kershaw and told him he needed reinforcements.

Commander Kershaw ordered General Thorndike and his remaining men to remain out of the light, and keep a low profile under reinforcements arrived.