The night is always darkest before the dawn. For the surviving Aggressor Inc. pilots, dawn can't come fast enough.

NATO mobilizes to face the new global threat from the Shanghai Pact.

Can it rise to the challenge?

China's invasion of Taiwan is a reality at last, but not in the way anyone foresaw. From their hiding place on Xiuguluan Mountain, a US-Taiwanese spec ops team prepares to wage guerilla warfare.

Their mission may demand the ultimate sacrifice, but could change the course of the war.

NATO nations are not the only ones threatened. With Russian troops on its northern border, Japan needs a geographic buffer, and takes back territory it ceded to Russia at the end of the Second World War.

Can Japan prevail against a weakened Russia, backed by China? An old enemy may prove vital.

US President, Carmen Carliotti, faces crises on multiple fronts - in the Pacific, and at home, as rioting and unrest force her to implement extreme measures.

But who is behind the suspiciously well-organized and funded civil uprising?

NATO and the Shanghai Pact nations face off as the battle—for global supremacy and for the very soul of America—rages.