49
“What the hell is going on out there, General?”
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, four-star General Drake Nason wished to God he knew what to tell the President. All of the information that should be flowing into the White House Situation Room—wasn’t.
Just a damned CNN feed that he hoped to God was part of some bad movie.
His assistant was feeding him reports from the Pentagon over the secure phone. Drake was repeating them as they came in.
“We got an unannounced North Korean missile launch, Mr. President. A smaller surface-to-air one, not the big ballistic missiles he’s been launching lately. A flight of A-10 Thunderbolts were on a routine show-of-force flight along the DMZ when they were targeted and downed.”
“Downed?” President Roy Cole leaned forward abruptly.
“Yes sir.”
