Full-Scale War 3

At the Pentagon, the newly appointed Secretary of Defense let out a long breath after hanging up the phone.

Seeing every pair of eyes in the conference room focused on him, he smiled faintly.

"Gentlemen, I have received authorization from the President, who is currently visiting Europe, to launch military operations!"

The moment he said that, the atmosphere in the conference room immediately heated up.

"Excellent! We can finally teach those damn alien bastards a lesson!"

"A salute to the President! This will be the best decision he has ever made!"

"Mr. Secretary, please give the order. Our soldiers are ready!"

More than a year ago, a sudden Decepticon attack from the sky had wiped out the U.S. military's Second Fleet.

Not long afterward, during the battle in the Red Sea, the main force of the Fifth Fleet was ambushed by the Decepticons again and suffered devastating losses.

As a maritime power, the reason the United States had been able to maintain its status as a superpower from World War II through the Cold War and the era that followed was not merely its financial and technological hegemony.

Its most important foundation had always been its powerful military.

And the navy was undoubtedly the most crucial part of America's military strength.

With more than a dozen aircraft carriers, nearly a hundred nuclear submarines, hundreds of warships of all kinds, thousands of military aircraft, and overseas military bases spread across the four oceans and five continents, the Americans had maintained their naval supremacy from the Cold War through the collapse of the Soviet Union.

When major powers refused to obey, carrier battle groups would block their doorsteps and conduct military exercises.

When smaller countries refused to obey, a few missile destroyers or cruisers patrolling offshore, combined with nearby land, sea, and