False Flag (Jason Trapp Book 2) by Jack Slater

Author:Jack Slater [Slater, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-12T16:00:00+00:00

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Trapp entered China for the second time that week, this time traveling on a Canadian passport and hitching a ride on a commercial flight from South Korea.

He landed in Dandong, a city of over a million people, with several million more in the greater urban area. It was larger than all but five American cities, and yet it was a place that few outside of China had ever heard of.

Once again, Trapp couldn’t help but contemplate the sheer size of this vast country—and the futility of ever going to war with her. America had the greatest military the world had ever seen. Trapp should know. He’d fought in it for years, receiving the best training any warfighter in history ever had.

That was how he knew that going to war here would be a disaster the likes of which his country had never tasted before. President Nash could send in the navy, the army, the Marines and the air force, and paste the Chinese coast with precision guided ordnance until the South China Sea ran red with blood. The first day of the war alone would cost billions just in spent cruise missiles and JDAM bombs.

Hundreds of thousands might die, maybe more.

And it would all be for nothing. As Trapp exited the gleaming surroundings of Dandong airport, tasting the thick, humid air of the Chinese summer, a stark contrast from the air-conditioned arrivals hall, and looked out on the endless buildings, he knew that if America picked a fight with this country, it would be like Germany invading the Soviet Union in 1941, or Napoleon doing the same a hundred and fifty years earlier. It would make the mire of Vietnam look like a cakewalk.

China had a hundred cities just like Dandong, cities of more than a million people. America had ten. It would take the American military months to replenish the weaponry expended in the first few weeks of the war, maybe years. But China was blessed with a population that stretched beyond a billion souls, and factories that had swallowed the American manufacturing sector whole.

If America lost an aircraft carrier to a Chinese missile attack, it would take more than a decade to replace it. No, as much as Trapp loved his country, he knew that anyone who believed this war was winnable was dead wrong. The only way for America to triumph would be to reduce China to a smoldering rubble. It would make the aftermath of the Iraq war look like a kid’s squabble in comparison.

It was a battle in which neither side could triumph, but both could lose.

Trapp’s boss, Deputy Director Mike Mitchell, had impressed upon him the urgency of his mission. The hawks in Washington were beating the drums of a war they themselves wouldn’t have to fight, the press was stirring up outrage, with wall-to-wall coverage of Chinese atrocities, both real and manufactured. Social media was alive with rumor and speculation.

President Nash needed a way out. He needed proof that the Chinese had nothing to do with what had happened to America’s satellites—and he needed it fast.

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