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  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. Prologue
  6. PART ONE
  7. Kharkiv, Ukraine
  8. The President’s weekly defense and foreign policy meeting, The Kremlin, Moscow
  9. Comprehensive Crisis Operations Management Center (CCOMC), Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Belgium
  10. Briefing Room, Boryspill Air Force Base, Ukraine
  11. The Kremlin, Moscow
  12. Washington, D.C.
  13. Residence of DSACEUR La Belle Alliance, Erbisoeul, Belgium
  14. North Atlantic Council Conference Room, NATO Headquarters, Brussels
  15. Banks of River Daugava, Riga, Latvia
  16. Ādaži Training Camp, Latvia
  17. Riga, Latvia
  18. National Defense Control Center, Moscow
  19. Ādaži Training Camp, Latvia
  20. NATO Headquarters, Brussels
  21. National Armed Forces Joint HQ, Riga, Latvia
  22. Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Mons, Belgium
  23. Central European Time 1600 hours, Eastern Standard Time, The White House, Washington, D.C.
  24. Lielvārde Air Base, Latvia
  25. Lielvārde Air Base, Latvia
  26. Camp David, Catoctin Mountains, Maryland
  27. British Embassy, 5, J.Alunana Street, Riga, Latvia
  28. The Russell Arms, Butler’s Cross, Buckinghamshire
  29. HMS Queen Elizabeth Middle Slip Jetty, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth
  30. National Defense Control Center, Moscow
  31. Comprehensive Crisis Operations Management Center (CCOMC) SHAPE headquarters, Mons, Belgium
  32. Somewhere in the forest, Gauja National Park, Latvia
  33. 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, London
  34. HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Baltic Sea
  35. Control Room, Kilo Class submarine Krasnokamensk, Baltic Sea
  36. PART TWO
  37. Prime Minister’s Office, House of Commons, London
  38. The Presidential Dacha Barvikha, Odintsovsky District of Moscow Oblast
  39. The White House, Washington, D.C.
  40. NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
  41. Gauja National Park Forest, Latvia
  42. PART THREE
  43. “The Tank,” Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
  44. North Atlantic Council NATO Headquarters, Brussels
  45. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Cheltenham, England
  46. GCHQ, Cheltenham, England
  47. Forest south of Pravdinsk, Kaliningrad, Russia
  48. Headquarters, Kaliningrad Special Region, Kaliningrad
  49. The President’s Office, The Kremlin, Moscow
  50. Forest south of Pravdinsk, Kaliningrad, Russia
  51. Comprehensive Crisis Operations Management Center (CCOMC) SHAPE headquarters, Mons, Belgium
  52. Command Bunker, Iskander Missile Battery Pravdinsk, Kaliningrad
  53. Over Wroclaw, Poland
  54. Forest north of Pravdinsk Iskander Battery, Kaliningrad
  55. 25,000 feet above Kaliningrad
  56. Close to the Pravdinsk Iskander Battery, Kaliningrad
  57. Epilogue
  58. Glossary
  59. Acknowledgments
  60. Notes

MacWhite added, “We’d need at least a three-to-one advantage. So, assuming that large numbers of Russians are diverted to the Baltics, that takes us to an attack force of around fifty thousand, a minimum of a corps operation . . . With some serious anti-armor capability as a starter.”

“Where are they going to come from?” asked Dillon.

“Well, ma’am, following your decision to reduce notice to move on the eighteenth of May, 18th Airborne Corps is pretty much ready to move. The two airborne divisions, 82nd and 101st Air Assault are good to go, while the Global Response Force from 82nd has been in UK since we had to turn it back from landing in Latvia. We also took the precaution of starting to ship the two armored brigades of 4th Infantry Division to Europe. They should be docking in Bremerhaven in the next few days. They’ll link up with the two brigades we’ve moved to Germany, so that will give us a useful combined arms force with plenty of armored clout.

“On top of that, we’ve got 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force out of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina embarked and moving across the Atlantic. Put alongside 18th Airborne Corps that becomes a punchy organization, with all the amphibious capability needed to disembark a strong force. As for maritime, we’ve got 6th Fleet moving up through the Mediterranean at best speed right now and more ships on their way across the Atlantic from Norfolk, Virginia to reinforce them. Air—all we need is in Europe already. So, depending on what the allies can produce, we’ve got the means to do what needs to be done to take down the Russians.”

He got no further as the President lifted up her hand. “Whoa, General . . . You’ve lost me with all this detail. Take me through all that, one bit at a time.”

MacWhite grinned. “Forgive me, ma’am. I guess my enthusiasm got the better of me. Sure. Bear . . . ?” and he looked across at Bear, sitting in the cheap seats behind the Situation Room conference table. “Run the President through the slides you prepared for me before the meeting, will you.”

Bear systematically went through the make-up of the force, slide by slide. Dillon listened carefully, making occasional notes on a hard copy of the slides. She asked a number of perceptive questions of MacWhite and then looked at Bear.