Rogue Warrior: Domino Theory (Rogue Warrior Series Book 16) by Richard Marcinko & Jim Defelice

Author:Richard Marcinko & Jim Defelice
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thrillers, War & Military, Literature & Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Terrorism, Military, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Action & Adventure, Thrillers & Suspense, Thriller, United States, Spies & Politics, Crime
Amazon: B004VMV4S0
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: 2011-05-10T00:00:00+00:00

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The two helicopters had been traced to an area about 150 miles northeast of Delhi. The area was extremely rugged.

Pull up Google Earth and make a line at about two o’clock straight out from the city, and all you’ll see are swirls and squiggles. A few highways tread through the mountains, cutting back and forth with the terrain. They’re narrow, and have more curves than the Miss America Beauty Pageant. Villages cling to the sides of the roads like rats climbing up a rope.

The helicopters were said to be located in the yard of a building at the outskirts of one of these villages. The building had once been the center of a small fortress outpost, held during the Mughal times but abandoned well before the British moved in. The Indian air farce had spotted the choppers on the ground after a series of painstaking reconnaissance flights. The location wasn’t exactly on a straight line from our flight, but it was well within the helicopters’ flight capabilities.

Since it found them, the air farce got to put together the welcome home party. Special Squadron Zero had not been invited — originally. But as the air force pooh-bahs began drawing up their plans, they realized they didn’t have enough ground troops in that area to grab the aircraft that night.

Rather than waiting several days — I have no idea why it would have taken them that long, or why they didn’t have a suitable force in Delhi to begin with — they decided they would share some of the glory. Of course, they were pretty selective about who they wanted, choosing partly on the basis of whom they figured would be least likely to try and steal the press, and partly on the basis of political connections.

Whatever.

The upshot was that Special Squadron Zero had been assigned to cut off the road near the compound, isolating it from a village about two-thirds of a kilometer away.

* * *

You’re thinking:

What the @#$#$ does the Indian air farce know about ground operations?

The air farce actually does have a capable special operations unit — the Garud Commando Force. There are somewhere in the area of fifteen hundred men in the unit, all trained in various facets of force operation and spec ops warfare. Some of them were in the Congo recently, and earned good praise there. They’ve worked with Indian army special forces in Kashmir. A few of their officers have trained with our air farce units in the U.S.

I won’t hold that against them.

The Garud members are pretty dedicated. There should have been more coordination among the officers of the different units working with them, but that’s probably more of a quibble, really, and frankly something that could be said across the board.

More critical were the limits on the operation imposed by their helicopters, which were being pushed to their operating limits because of the high altitude. They solved that problem, but things would have been easier if they’d had up-rated ships like Special Squadron Zero’s.

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