It is six months since the Battle of Hawaii. The war to defend Taiwan has become World War III, and the surviving pilots of a rested and refitted Aggressor Inc. are thrown back into the fight as it moves across multiple fronts.

On Japanese Kunashiri Island, the crew of a single Japanese Infantry Fighting Vehicle tries to hold back an entire Russian airborne company, while marauding Russian fighters pour into the skies overhead. A Chinese hacker captured off San Luis Obispo Bay could be the key to the wolf pack's victory or defeat. At Josan-ri in Korea, US Marine Uncrewed Ground Vehicle (UGV) platoon leader, Second Lieutenant Leroy King of Scout Team Two, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, prepares for an incursion into the DMZ.

In the US, the powerful conspirators behind the Raven Rock Bombing finally step out of the shadows. US President Carmen Carliotti is suddenly facing an internal enemy that could prove fatal both to her administration, and the integrity of the USA itself. China's Northern Fleet was destroyed off Hawaii and its air force has lost control of the skies over the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea. From ports in South Korea, the US prepares to launch its largest amphibious assault since D-Day. If it succeeds, it could trigger China's capitulation. If it fails . . .