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President Peter Matthews stared at the screen on the Situation Room wall. “Tell me.”
General Brett Rogers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stood and strode to the screen.
“The more our analysts chew on this one, the worse it looks. It started as a lead at a forward airbase south of the Hindu Kush. They kicked it to Fort Campbell, which bumped the problem to SOCCOM. We’re now twenty hours in and we know there is trouble, and we think it may be bad. Definitely international, potentially disastrous.”
“First slide,” he called out to the room whose only other occupant was Daniel Darlington, the President’s Chief of Staff. An orderly hidden in the next room put a picture of a rugged soldier in his fifties up on the room’s center screen. A bio ran down one side.
“Colonel James Evan
