"Communication connection?"

"Most of the communication equipment has been damaged by a powerful electromagnetic attack! We’ll need to replace the entire system or rebuild the network!"

"...Nothing’s going right. Damn Slavic bastards."

Hudson Regional Hospital, Newark.

The New Jersey National Guard's 2nd Battalion, A Company of the 113th Infantry Regiment, stationed at Hudson Regional Hospital, was experiencing something akin to blindness in real-time. Despite being only about 9 kilometers away from Central Park HQ, their situation was dire.

It’s often joked that modern humans become helpless when communication is cut off, but the real problem was that this happened during a full-scale war.

Despite being stationed on home soil, the U.S. military was experiencing extreme manpower shortages, and with urban warfare becoming inevitable, it was essential to rely even more on electronic equipment to prevent casualties.