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* ''VideoGame/SplinterCell: Chaos Theory'' has war break out on the Korean Peninsula. One notable mission has Sam sneaking through the streets of war-torn Seoul; Sam being an unlawful combatant who doesn't officially exist, both North and South Korean soldiers are hostile to him.

* In the background of ''VideoGame/ActOfAggression'' the US went to war with Iran in the Persian war. Iran invades Oraq to gain control over its oil fields, The US, along with several allied nations came to Iraqs aid.

!!{{NATO}} vs. Warsaw Pact

* Done briefly in CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare, the US forces come to South Korea's aid when Seoul is under attacked by North Korean forces.

* ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}'' North Korea has conquered South Korea and is now Greater Korean Republic, and invades the USA when it launched a EMP attack on it.

* ''Literature/TomorrowWhenTheWarBegan'' and its sequels
* ''Literature/TheSixthBattle'' (1992): South Africa and vs. it's neighbouring states and the Eurasian Republic (a largely reconstituted USSR)

* ''Literature/TheSixthBattle'' (1992): South Africa and vs. the neighbouring states of South Africa and the Eurasian Republic (a largely reconstituted USSR)

The "Second KoreanWar".[[note]]Very technically, it'd be the same Korean War as the one from 1950-53, as technically that war is still ongoing; the war stopping in 1953 was via an armistice that has never been formalized into an actual treaty. On the other hand, it's likely that in practice, it probably would be called the "Second Korean War": we call the [[ArabIsraeliConflict armed conflicts between Israel and the Arab states in 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973]] different names (''many'' different names), but until 1979 none of the Arab states signed peace treaties with Israel.[[/note]]

** ''Literature/{{Chieftain}}'', also set in the same scenario, focusing on one British tank.

* ''Wargame: European Escalation '' the two factions are NATO and Warsaw Pact, which are later subdivided into four countries. NATO(USA,France,UK,West Germany) Warsaw Pact(USSR,Poland,East Germany,Czechoslovakia).

** ''Team Yankee'', set in the same scenario, which focuses on a U.S tank company.
** ''Chieftain'', Also set in the same scenario, focusing on one British tank.

* ''WorldInConflict'' where the Soviets out of desperation decided to invade America.
* ''CodenamePanzers'' ''ColdWar'' a Soviet fighter collides with a US cargo plane which gives the Soviets an excuse to invade Germany.

* ''LightningInTheNight'' written in 1940 after the fall of France, it serialized a Germany-USSR-Japan invasion of the USA in the mid 40s after the surrender of England. An anti-isolationism propaganda piece. Actually suggested the war would start with an attack on Pearl Harbor, and end with atomic bombs.

* ''[[Literature/RedArmyNovel Red Army]]''

A rather large sub-genre of military fiction and the TechnoThriller, PossibleWar works are works dealing with a hypothetical, but semi-plausible conflict in the world at the time they were written. Accuracy may vary, as many of these tend to be [[AuthorTract works trying to increase defence spending]].

* ''RedStormRising''

* ''Literature/RedArmy''

* Larry Bond's ''Red Phoenix''
* DaleBrown's ''Battle Born''

* DaleBrown's ''Fatal Terrain''

* Just before TheGreatPoliticsMessUp, Harold Coyle (who also wrote ''Team Yankee'') published ''Sword Point'', which featured a three-way war between the USSR, Iran, and the USA. USSR invades for the oil US opposes USSR, and Iran doesn't want either of them.
* In Creator/TomClancy's ''Literature/JackRyan Executive Orders''', Iran has taken over Iraq and renames itself as the United Islamic Republic. They soon plan to attack Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to gain control over the worlds oil supply. But the UIR makes a bad choice when it commits terrorist attacks against the USA and its new president Jack Ryan, who has the US strike back against the UIR and its leader assassinated.

* The novel ''SevenDaysInMay'' takes place after a long conventional war in Iran.

* LarryBond's ''Cauldron'' (1993): France and Germany vs. the former WarsawPact states, the UK and the US
* ''TomorrowWhenTheWarBegan'' and its sequels

* In the 2012 remake of ''[[RedDawn2012 Red Dawn]]'', the U.S. is invaded by North Korea.

* ''TheSixthBattle'' (1992): South Africa and vs. the neighbouring states of South Africa and the Eurasian Republic (a largely reconstituted USSR)

* ''Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath'' the game takes place on a WhatIf the Cuban Missile Crisis resulted in a nuclear exchange between the West and the Soviets. Which results in the Northern Hemisphere of the world to be a nuclear wasteland, with the Anglo-American Alliance, the French-German Alliance, the USSR and the Chinese in a four way war for whats left of the world.

AlienInvasion is basically this [[AC: InSpace]] (Or rather, [[AC: From Space!]])

Published between 1871 and 1914. Started with ''The Battle of Dorking''. Before 1903, the invader was France. With ''The Riddle of the Sands'' (not one of these, technically speaking), switched to Germany (the Entente Cordiale and all that).

AlienInvasion is basically this [[AC: InSpace]]

The "Second KoreanWar".[[note]]In reality, it'd be the same Korean War as the one from 1950-53, as technically that war is still ongoing; the war stopping in 1953 was via an armistice that has never been formalized into an actual treaty.[[/note]]

* DaleBrown's ''FatalTerrain''

* ''TheGreatPacificWar'' is about a naval contest between the United States and Japan. It was written 16 and set 8 years before those two countries actually did go to war.

* ''WarOfTheWorlds'' was written as one of these.

* In Creator/TomClancy's ''[[Literature/JackRyan Executive Orders''', Iran has taken over Iraq and renames itself as the United Islamic Republic. They soon plan to attack Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to gain control over the worlds oil supply. But the UIR makes a bad choice when it commits terrorist attacks against the USA and its new president Jack Ryan, who has the US strike back against the UIR and its leader assassinated.

The "Second KoreanWar".[[hottip:*:In reality, it'd be the same Korean War as the one from 1950-53, as technically that war is still ongoing.]]

Just before TheGreatPoliticsMessUp, Harold Coyle (who also wrote ''Team Yankee'') published ''Sword Point'', which featured a three-way war between the USSR, Iran, and the USA. USSR invades for the oil US opposes USSR, and Iran doesn't want either of them.

* ''Tom Clancy's Executive Orders'' Iran has taken over Iraq and renames itself as the United Islamic Republic. They soon plan to attack Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to gain control over the worlds oil supply. But the UIR makes a bad choice when it commits terrorist attacks against the USA, with Jack Ryan as [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent President Action]], who has the US strike back against the UIR, and has its leader assassinated.

* WarOfTheWorlds was written as one of these.
* TheGreatPacificWar is about a naval contest between the United States and Japan. It was written 16 and set 8 years before those two countries actually did go to war.

* The ''VideoGame/EndWar'' series of the TomClancy franchise is a scenario of what might happen if humanity created a system of lasers that made nuclear weapons obsolete, the E.U. and Russia emerged as superpowers equal to the United States, and we all had a great big war. Oh, and there's peak oil too as a reason, which is how Russia managed to regain power in the world.