H.A.W.X./Fridge

Fridge Brilliance

 * Perhaps this is just me trying to squeeze any last bit of juice out of a relatively average game, but the plot of ""Tom Clancy's HAWX reads a lot better as a . The first time you see them, they throw a few dozen planes and landing craft at Rio (with or without potential partisans inside the city) in an attempt to decapitate the Brazilian leadership and gain dominance over Latin America. Naturally, you (a pilot for the local PMC, Artemis, which has just signed a "lucrative" contract with the Brazilians) tear them to shreds, save the Brazilians, and earn tons of money for Artemis while LT has botched their first strike and now has to await a counterattacked coupled with American intervention against them. All well and good, right? But pay attention to the briefing for that mission: it says that  have been put on high alert, so chances are that the LT units you killed off at Rio and in the few other missions later were not   So, after their defeat by Artemis at Rio forces LT on the defensive, what do they do? Simple: they   So, after increasingly tense situations with command, Artemis   This naturally ticks Uncle Sam off (likely since   is probably American-based, is largely run and staffed by Americans, and is in violation of the Reykjavik accords), and thus they demand that   disarm. Apparently, because the Board of Directors are either Randian fanatics or Too Dumb to Live, they decide to pull a coup that leads to   Because of the chaos, the Reykjavik Accords get tossed out (thus outlawing PMCs again), and you get sent back to  . So, where does the The Plan come in? Think about this: First, LT sends in an invasion of Rio spearheaded by  . If they had won, it would have been a simple coup before a march to Brasilia to clean up any loyalist resistance before the US can react. But, since they lost  . After this, they choose to   After the situation spirals out of hand and , Las Trinidad has achieved a major victory:   Either Clancy's writers are SMART or I should have their jobs.- Turtler
 * Probably the latter, if the Let's Play of the game is to go by. If better writers ever reference this incident, it'll probably be true.
 * I always thought Las Trinidad was defeated after Operation Stiletto, so it's impossible for them to actually have a "Round 2" with Brazil. Here's the thing: The game mentioned at the beginning of Operation Ulysses that Las Trinidad's ground assault have been halted after the capture of their battle plans, leaving their only way of waging war to be by water, hence why the beginning of Operation Ulysses involves fighting Las Trinidad's naval forces. The James Lawrence Battle Group destroyed both Las Trinidad's fleet, as well as . Las Trinidad was defeated soon after in Operation Stiletto (when their Operational Center was bombed), which is why they're no longer mentioned for the rest of the game.
 * Continuing from my previous point, my basic understanding of the plot is that Artemis profited greatly during the six years that passed between HAWX squadron's recruitment and the time, allowing them to become the most powerful Private Military Contractor in the world. They were able to fill their ranks with a huge amount of soldiers due to the events of EndWar. EndWar mentioned the "Forgotten Army", comprised of soldiers from dissolved nations that were out of a job. It's likely that after EndWar, all the countries were so devastated that they were forced to cut back on military expenses, causing many more soldiers to leave (Since any World War III will likely last a short while, the war ended in 2020). Many of those soldiers ended up joining Private Military Contractors, like Artemis. EndWar will also explain   During the Brazilian conflict, Las Trinidad's ground forces were defeated after Operation Backfire ended with all of their battle plans captured, leaving Las Trinidad's only way of waging war to be by water. However, the James Lawrence Battle Group destroyed Las Trinidad's fleet. The US intervention, however, marginalized Artemis's role in the conflict, which caused severe drops in stocks. The reason   is two fold:   However, because  . However,  . So, all in all, Las Trinidad's story ended in Operation Stiletto. After all, if it indeed survived, there would be at least a passing mention of it somewhere in the later missions, but  , there were no longer any mention. Because they were on the verge of defeat at the beginning of Ulysses,  , Las Trinidad was defeated. From that point on,  . The story does make sense if you take into account the broader Tom Clancy universe, which explains why  . The chances of this story happening is next to nil, but it still doesn't stretch the Suspension of Disbelief that much.
 * And that's not even getting into the whole Megiddo thing that was introduced in Splinter Cell Conviction. Rainbow Six Vegas mentioned that the Vegas attacks were funded by a "wealthy backer" that was never revealed, and the sequel to HAWX had . It seems like Ubisoft is setting up Megiddo to be the Big Bad of the Clancyverse, and it's not a stretch to think that they had something to do with both the events of EndWar and the strengthening of Artemis to.
 * Remember that HAWX 2 is in the same conflict as Ghost Recon Future Soldier, where the Big Bad is a weapons-trafficking group known as Raven's Rock. Moreover, the HAWX team helps the Ghosts in that game.