Armistice

Armistice
Appears in	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Active	2019-2020 (Disbanded as of April 2020)
Country	Leading Countries: United States Russian Federation
Leader(s)	Kate Laswell Sergeant Kamarov
Branches	Allegiance Coalition
Type	Temporary Military Alliance
Engagement	War on Terror War Against Al-Qatala
Level	Special Ops

The Armistice was a temporary military alliance between the Coalition and Allegiance factions created by their respective leaders CIA Case Officer Kate Laswell and FSB Sergeant Kamarov to stop and sever Al-Qatala access to weapons, funds, intelligence, and hardware after their invasion of Kastovia. It is the main playable faction featured in the Special Ops mode of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

War Against Al-Qatala

Invasion of Verdansk

Barkov's previously deluded claim suggesting that a foreign entity might threaten Russia, ironically, proved true as his death left a power vacum that Mr. Z had hoped to fufill. To that end, he provided equipment and support to the battered AQ militia. With this new found power and mysterious leader, Al Qatala began turning their focus north, in hopes of seeking revenge against those that had inflicted misery on them for the past 20 years. Kastova, bordering Urzikstan to the north and Russia to the south, was seen as a perfect staging ground for the AQ milita to launch an invasion or attack into Russia. Kastova, a previous Soviet Union republic was a close ally of both Russia and the West having been rebuilt by both sides after the fall of the USSR. The Russian forces stationed in the country, unexpecting such heavy firepower were overwhelmed in a matter of days, suffering a large number of casualties and were forced to pull out of the country.

Recieving pleadings of help from both Russia and Kastovia, the West deployed CIA handler Kate Laswell and Captain Price to oversee and establish a temporary military alliance as both had experience against AQ forces back in Urzikstan. Linking up with FSB contacts Nikolai and Sergeant Kamarov, both sides exchanged formalities and began their operations by creating the temporary military alliance: Armistice.

Operation Headhunter

The Armistice team "Arm-4" is sent by Case Officer Kate Laswell and Sergeant Kamarov to find intel about Almalik's warehouses in Verdansk. After eliminating several Al-Qatala's lieutenants, the team discovered Almalik used scramblers to protect his communication and hide the warehouses. They found the scramblers around the Verdansk stadium, pulled every data and destroyed them. They fought back armored vehicles sent by Almalik before exfiltration.

Operation Kuvalda

Using the data recovered from the scramblers, Armistice located all the warehouses belonging to Almalik in Verdansk. Several Armistices teams were deployed to attack all the warehouses at once.

The "Arm-4" team was sent at the Arklov Peak military base, Almalik's base of operations and primary storage facility. The team infiltrated the base and accessed the data server to find and mark weapons stockpiles for missile strikes. Arm-4 also found ballistic missiles inside the hangar. After the team was exfilled, the military base was destroyed killing Almalik in the process.

Operation Paladin

The Arm-4 team is sent to rescue Doctor Linda Morales, a volunteer physician in Verdansk. She was taken hostage by Al-Qatala after she informed Armistice that Mr Z was using medical shipments from the World Humanitarian Project to move hazardous materials into the city.

After the team managed to exfil Morales, she told them that a deal was happening at the airfield. Arm-4 was deployed near by to escort an APC to the airfield. The team encountered several weapon crates containing Chem-Bio weapons derived from Roman Barkov's chlorine gas. Fighting against a large amount of AQ forces, they discovered a nuclear warhead with his core missing before leaving the area.

Operation Crosswind

Using Doctor Linda Morales intel, the Arm-4 team infiltrated the Verdansk Airport occupied by Al-Qatala. They desactivated the comms array, preventing the AQ forces in the airport to contact reinforcement. The team then boarded the hijacked plane before it took off and made their way inside it. They recovered the nuclear core before jumping out of the plane. After fighting Al-Qatala in the scrapyard next to the airport, they left the area with the core.

Operation Harbinger

The Arm-4 team was sent northern Verdansk to find more intel about El Traficante, a smuggler allied with Al-Qatala, after a source inside the terrorist organization, MAGE, reported El Traficante was moving something big across Verdansk. After searching through several safehouses, Arm-4 uncovered a huge amount of money and documents linked to an account tied to El Traficante.

The team proceeded to a hotel where MAGE was held hostage, AQ forces moved him to a convoy but was intercepted by Arm-4 who retrieved MAGE. After fighting enemy forces, the team brought MAGE to the extraction zone where they attached to him a Fulton Device for his exfil. They then regrouped in a nearby safehouse.

Operation Brimstone

After retrieving MAGE, the Arm-4 team infiltrated the Quarry next to their safehouse, under mortar fire. Fighting against Al-Qatala, they disrupted several communication arrays to prevent the AQ forces to call for back up. The team then eliminated three high value targets who guarded the terminal keys for the train control room, this allowed the team to call in the train.

Once the train arrived the loading platform, the team opened the doors and rigged the explosives before going to exfil under enemy fire. Once the team was secured, the train exploded.

Dissolution

While operations conducted against the resurgent Al Qatala had proven succesful, it was ultimately not enough to stop the joint Ultranationalist-Al Qatala offensive. In addition, Zakhaev's deployment of the gas in the city proved to be the death blow to the already fragile alliance, as members began fighting amongst themselves in a desperate bid for survival. Simon "Ghost" Riley, previously deployed by Price to investigate rumors about infighting within the Armistice was one of the only operators known to have survived most of the heavy fighting.

By the time Alex arrived with his fireteam to assist Simon "Ghost" Riley, the Coalition, led by Price could only afford to deploy the fireteam, as they were struggling to contain the chaos of the collapse of the once fledgling military alliance and the gas in the city. By early 2020, Price confirmed that the alliance had indeed collapsed due to infighting.