The Warbirds by Richard Herman

Author:Richard Herman [Herman, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1989-12-17T07:00:00+00:00

5 April: 0845 hours, Greenwich Mean Time 0945 hours, Stonewood, England

Waters had joined the three men around the map of the Persian Gulf that Bill Carroll had spread out on the work table in Intelligence. Carroll plotted the coordinates he’d been given that morning. “That’s it, Ras Assanya,” the lieutenant told the group. “Never heard of it and there’s nothing in my records about it.”

Chief Pullman bent over the map. “Why is the air base located near a neutral zone?”

“That’s an old map that needs updating,” Carroll told him. “The neutral zone is now part of Kuwait. They stuck our deployment base in the middle of nowhere.”

With a pair of dividers Waters measured off two hundred fifty nautical miles and swung an arc on the map using the base as the center point. “Someone had their act together when they picked Ras Assanya for our deployment base. Our effective area of operations is the head of the Persian Gulf. And that at least makes us a significant deterrent to any would-be Alexander the Greats.”

“And a significant target,” Carroll said. “Sir David, our information is that British contractors built the base. Can you get us any pictures, plans?”

The group commander nodded. “You have a problem,” he began. “Base survival will be a major factor in the success of your operations out of Ras Assanya. You need to be prepared to deal with air attacks, commando raids and naval bombardment. Fighting for your base is something you Yanks haven’t done since the early days of World War Two.”

“How in the hell do we get our troops ready for that?” Chief Pullman grumbled. “Home is supposed to be safe.”

“The first step is to get everyone’s attention,” Childs said, and outlined how they could do that by staging a training raid on Stonewood. He proposed using four F-15s from Soesterberg in the Netherlands launching out of Stonewood to defend against attacking aircraft from NATO’s Tactical Leadership Program. “Once your people have seen what a well-planned attack can do, then we can teach them how to fight for their survival while they launch and recover fighters on combat sorties.”

“Well,” Waters said, “let’s get cracking. Time’s no longer on our side.”

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