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The Great War Syndicate: Alternative History Utopian Classic!
The Great War Syndicate Alternative History Utopian Classic Author:Frank R. Stockton Alternative History Utopian Classic! USA declares War on Canada using Contract Troops - A hired out-sourced private army! The plot centers on a group of billionaire capitalists, a War Syndicate, who offer to assume the expense of a war for the United States after a gunfight erupts between two vessels off the Canadian coast - "the American fla... more »g had been hauled down by Englishmen, an American naval vessel had been fired into and captured; that was enough!" The Syndicate uses innovative weaponry of an advanced nature, including "motor bombs" (jet-propelled shells with tremendous explosive force), coupled with the fact that the US Government will pay the Syndicate more if they finish the War faster, causing the billionaires to use advanced weapons to completely overwhelm the Canadians and their British allies. The private army devastates the Canadian-British alliance and they are forced to sue for peace. Eventually an Anglo-American alliance is formed to outlaw all war.« less