The Oil Wars

The Oil Wars, sometimes referred to as the Middle Eastern Oil Wars, was a series of armed conflicts between world superpowers over the last remnants of oil in the Middle East between the 2050s - 2060s.

The Rich '40s
Called the Rich '40s for its only remaining bits of oil until the 2050s struck. These times were seen as the best in modern day Earth as fresh oil was being pumped out from the oil fields in the Middle East and being provided to the rich, and superpower filled countries of the world.

In 2046, the Rich '40s saw a huge boost of pumped oil as an increase of 10% was pumped out of the Middle East and fed to countries such as the United States, Russia, and countries of the EU. By the time the year 2048 had hit Earth oil had slowly been being pumped less and less out of the Earth's crust, resulting in the U.S. Military and its Operation Resources which ended prewar.

Operation Resources
Operation Resources was a two-year U.S. Military operation where the United States sent a small group of 10,000 U.S. Marines into the Middle East to take whatever remaining oil that was up for grabs. This caused small armed conflicts in the area known as the War of 2048 which lasted from 2048 - 2050.

Outbreak of the Wars
Reports claim the Chinese and Russians started the attacks, others say members of NATO or just the United States along caused it, no-one is for sure. But in the 2050s the Middle East became the largest battleground of the 21st Century as countries across the globe (Great Britain, U.S., Russia, PRC, France etc) fought over the oil remains in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraqi, Afghanistan etc.

These conflicts were dubbed the Oil Wars in 205X by both civilians and military personnel alike. Although the media lied to the public stating oil wasn't running dry in 2054 a rogue group of U.S. Marines alongside some Royal Marines were stopped hijacking a lorry which contained over 100 barrels of oil and driving off with it.

Meanwhile in countries like China and America the people saw the conflict as nothing more than the government lying to them about oil running dry, and wanted their involvement in the conflict to stop. This lead China into the Chinese Civil Wars or Second Chinese Civil War (2055 - 207X) which was armed conflicts between Chinese Rebels and Chinese Loyalists.

Ending the Wars
By the 2060s oil was just a now rumour to the public as greedy corporations, military groups, mercenaries and other people who were involved in the Oil Wars were no longer fighting for their country or the people of their country but for the remnants of oil that may still remain in the Middle East.