User blog comment:Jeremiah Garland/World War III?/@comment-2040576-20121211230720/@comment-2040576-20121212223640

Ahh yes, how stupid of me. Somalia is to the North... but that does not mean they cannot recruit mercenaries or other non-Somalian pirates, as this would actually be a smart move, considering they use guerilla warfare and child soldiers and this would not be "immoral" to them. Interesting that they have a navy, but as you said, I would suspect it is very ineffecient and would stand no chance against a more established navy without some assistance.

Yes, that is true. His name is Robert Mugabe, and he has been in power (if I remember correctly) since Zimbabwe gained independance and changed from Rhodesia to its current name. Mugabe was the leader of the military group, ZANU-PF, which is the ruling party of the country at the moment. You will have to excuse me if any of this is false, as I am talking from my memory at the moment. Anyway, he took the country with ZANU-PF and has been in control ever since, using vote-rigging, threats, his military power and so on. The country has been driven into the ground under his rule, and it is a joke among South Africans. There are rumours that he is responsible for assassination attempts on the leader of the opposing party. With the last elections there was huge controversy of vote-rigging and South Africa actually stepped in to try and bring about a power-sharing agreement where Mugabe would remain president and the opposer (whose name now escapes me) would become Prime Minister, but I am not sure what the outcome was. I think South Africa sympathises with Zimbabwe and want to help the country back on its feet, but I doubt we will ally with them in its current state. Then again, Mugab is in his 80s and I doubt he will still be reigning over Zimbabwe when and if WWIII takes place. Yes, the allegiance that the countries in Southern Africa will chose is very troubling for me, as I fear we may choose communism, although I know I would oppose, along with many others.

Yes, they will definitely be vulnerable in the bushvel terrain, but would have numbers to their advantage. But then again, in guerilla warfare, numbers means nothing, so this will be quite a change in pace for them. I think that should the countries of Southern Africa, sans Zimbabwe, chose to oppose the UCE, they will not make much ground in conquering any of the land, as we have organization, equipment (although the Russians and Chinese would not hesitate to supply the UCE), geography, navy and political relations to withstand them. However, the problem is that if we are able to hold them off in the defense, would an offense prove as successful? In their territory, where their guerilla warfare would overwhelm the Southern African armies?