Jack of Harts

Texas did not wish to march into Mexico City, install a new government, declare victory against the drug cartels, and then go home. They did wish to go home, but many of the Drug Lords had fled south before the approaching American troops. They could not be given a chance to rebuild. So after a week of celebrations, parties, and governmental negotiations, often intermingled in such a way as to make differentiating them difficult, the American military moved on. Army tanks, Marine raiders, and Texas Rangers pursued the Drug Lords into southern Mexico, as Air Force and Navy fighters, bombers, and warships secured the air and sea along the way. A month-long sustained campaign of utter destruction followed that march, aimed at anything or anybody linked with the drug cartels all the way down to the border wall that separated Old Mexico from its southern neighbors. The Americans, and the new Mexican federal government, wanted them as effectively destroyed as possible, and the Americans were happy to shoot them until that result was as complete as possible.