Okinawa: This is the Future of War by FX Holden

Author:FX Holden [Holden, FX]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-11-13T08:00:00+00:00

Ted Collins did not take the potentially existential threat to his base lightly. His unit had the nickname ‘Lava Dogs’ and a hard-as-rock reputation to match. He ordered Jensen to double the security personnel on patrol around the base perimeter and ensure they were armed appropriately. He ordered all three companies of the 1st Battalion to readiness. He made one more fateful decision. Six months earlier, White Beach had taken delivery of two US Army Stryker vehicle-based Maneuver-Short-Range Air Defense systems. These were mobile, armored missile-launch vehicles, which tied the latest Stinger missiles to a highly capable Rada multi-mission radar capable of tracking multiple fast-moving air targets. The Stryker platform was due for deployment with the Marines in the next two years. The US Army operators who had shipped in with their vehicles had been training their Marine counterparts in their use and were still on-base, as were their vehicles.

With the Aegis cruiser Port Royal currently on exercises out in the Pacific, White Beach was without meaningful air defense cover. A fact which would not have escaped the attention of anyone planning a move against White Beach. Collins immediately ordered the Strykers’ combined Army and Marine crew members to bring their systems online to monitor the airspace over White Beach. Stryker 1 was hidden in scrubland at the east end of the base, positioned to protect the main administrative center, where the bulk of Navy and Marine support personnel worked. Stryker 2 moved to the western end of the base, in a protected position beside the port facilities, to protect the dock infrastructure and the naval vessels present. The two mobile anti-air units got into place at around 1500 hours, Japan Standard Time. Collins made sure they were very clear about their rules of engagement. Any incursion into US airspace by foreign military aircraft was to be regarded as hostile.

If you drew a straight line from one Stryker to the other, you had the exact line of approach of Li Chen’s force of six Snow Falcon attack aircraft. And as the two Strykers shook hands digitally and linked data, Chen’s aircraft were ten minutes out.

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