In a Resource War, the winner will always be the side that fights most efficiently. China, the Soviet Union and its allies both used their greatest minds of the East to create even more advanced stealth technology than the United States, that allowed recon teams to infiltrate and assassinate while remaining completely undetected. Taking down high value targets with a single shot. The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and its allies had its own brand of eccentric genius. With the power of renewable energy at hand, unbridled engineers around the world created scientific marvels the rest of the world could not have imagined. The glut of consumer electronics that had flooded American stores were only the beginning of the wonders created by the likes of RobCo and Poseidon Energy whose true focus was the development of new weapons that could replace the inefficient tools of warfare used in the past decades. Combat weapons, energy weapons and cybernetics entered the war as the United States and its allies sought to retake Anchorage, and then the whole Alaska. Battles were fought by daring men who fire nuclear warheads and fire arrows from shoulder-mounted crossbows. Cyberdogs with a brain of a loyal hound encased in an unyielding titanium body. Even robot butlers hovered across battlefields, armed with plasma guns and flamethrowers. There was even a plan to engineer a new breed of mutant soldiers, but it was the creation of power armor that ensured American victory. Power armor combined the mobility of an infantry soldier battalion, with the resilience of a group of tanks, and the firepower of an entire group of squads. Fueled by microfusion cells, these elite troops could inflict crippling strikes on Chinese military assets using a fraction of resources of conventional military units. Early models of power armor were devastating enough, but after a decade of refinement the T-51b power armor represented the height and/or pre-war combat technology. With the aid of these perfected armored suits, America quickly liberated territory from the Chinese. In the post-war times the T-51b has become a symbol of the Brotherhood of Steel, but decades ago it was one of the last majestic icons of American Exceptionalism before the Soviet occupation.