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Chapters (60)
  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

“I’m sure I will . . . some time. When we were in the forest, and on the run, we did get pretty close in some ways. Who wouldn’t, given everything that happened? But it was hardly the time or place. She’s pretty tough. Especially after her recent experiences. She’s also a woman with a mission. She’s determined to help rebuild things in Latvia. Her brother was killed when the Russians attacked the airport and her parents need her around—which is all fair enough. I can only respect her for that . . .”

Which he knew, and even as he said it, was not really an answer. Allenby, of course, picked up on it and probed deeper.

As she did so, Morland recognized the parallels between the two of them. In so doing, he realized how much he had been looking forward to seeing Allenby again. And how much he was enjoying being with her now.

“I’d like to meet her one day,” announced Allenby.

“You’d like her. You’ve got a lot in common.”

Glossary

ACE—Allied Command Europe. An element in the Cold War NATO command structure. No longer exists

ACTORD—Activation order

ACTWARN—Activation warning

ADC—Aide de Camp. A general’s junior personal staff officer, usually a captain

AMRAAM—Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile

ARRC—Allied Rapid Reaction Corps. British led multinational NATO formation

Article 5—Article in Washington Treaty of 1949, the founding treaty of NATO, which states that “an armed attack against one or more [NATO member states] in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all” and binds other member states to take “such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.”

ASAP—As soon as possible

C2—Command and control

CAP—Combat Air Patrol

CCOMC—Comprehensive Crisis Operations Management Center, the nerve center of SHAPE

CDS—UK Chief of Defense Staff

CEO—Chief executive officer

CIA—Central Intelligence Agency. The USA’s foreign intelligence service

CJSOR—Combined Joint Statement of Requirement. The list of forces required for an operation

CMC—Chairman of the Military Committee. NATO’s senior military officer and the principal military adviser to the Secretary General and the North Atlantic Council

CO—Commanding officer

COM EUCOM—Commander US European Command

DDoS—Distributed Denial of Services. A form of cyber attack

Der Spiegel—influential German weekly news magazine

DSACEUR—Deputy Supreme Commander Europe, NATO’s deputy strategic commander

DSO—Distinguished Service Order, a prestigious British military award for meritorious service in war

DZ—Drop zone for airborne forces

ERV—Emergency rendezvous point

FSB—Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and the successor to the KGB

G7—Group of Seven. An informal bloc of industrialized democracies that meets annually to discuss issues such as global economic governance, international security, and energy policy (biggest economies). Was G8 until Russia was expelled following invasion of Crimea