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"Okay General, please continue, we'll review the specifics of our oil
situation when Secretary Collier gets here."
The General continued, going into detail regarding the current force structure
in Alaska and around
Midway Island. From the latest reports, the assault on Midway was continuing.
An initial cruise missile attack launched by Chinese strike aircraft against
Admiral Larsen's combined naval task force off
Midway had succeeded in sinking two frigates, one Burke destroyer and damaging
the U.S.S. Wasp, one of the Sea Control carriers operating in conjunction with
the Admiral's Task Force.
"The hot on the Wasp was not mortal, but it produced many casualties and its
flight operations are currently on hold until repairs can be made& but she is
not in danger of sinking and they feel she will hold station just fine and be
flight operational within ten to twelve hours."
The U.S. counter strike sent out against the Chinese task force had not faired
well. The Chinese had apparently held back the majority of their air
superiority fighters and met the U.S. Naval aircraft over 100
miles to the east of the Chinese main force. The resulting dog fight had
caused many of the A/F-18F
aircraft to eject their attack stores into the sea so they could defend
themselves. As a result, the attack had not been able to be pressed home
against the Chinese fleet. Fifteen American aircraft had been lost in the
fighting along with over thirty Chinese fighters. As of last report, the two
forces were continuing to probe for each other's exact location so they could
launch more effective strikes.
In Alaska, not much more could be said than what they had already seen.
General Stokes was requesting immediate reinforcement, both for his air forces
and his ground security forces. Fighter wings and bomber wings from Seattle,
Idaho, Montana and from North Dakota were already in the air over
Canada en route to Elmendorf and Eielson Air Bases. Military and commercial
air transport aircraft were already staging to fly reserve troops up to Alaska
based on the major call ups that the President had just signed in the last
hour.
The President would be making a national address to the nation at noon and
there would be more call ups announced then, along with a clear explanation of
the gravity of the situation.
At the conclusion of General Stone's remarks, the President asked.
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"Jeremy, straight up& in Alaska& can we stop them?"
The General, as the President knew he would, responded directly, forthrightly
and to the point.
"Stop them? Yes, Mr. President, we can stop them, and we will stop them.
" & but my guess is that it will be somewhere around Fairbanks, or perhaps even
Anchorage. Depending on how well the enemy has planned and what type of
transport he is bringing into Alaska, I think there is little chance that we
can amass enough forces in time to save Prudhoe Bay or the ANWR oil
facilities.
"Personally, I do not think we can count on this enemy not planning all of
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this very well in advance. I
believe now that our oil is, and always has been, their main goal. They just
masked it from us extremely well. We will do everything in our power to
protect that oil and its production facilities, or to deny it to the enemy"
June 23, 2008, 12:37 local time
TU-22M Reconnaissance Regiment
250 miles Southwest of Midway Island
Colonel Win Chang checked his instrumentation and his heading. He was the
commander of this entire regiment of TU-22M Backfire strike aircraft& except
today they had no weapons whatsoever to strike with. Particularly no LRASD
devices.
Each of his thirty-six aircraft had been loaded up with the most advanced
detection and ECM equipment his nation had to offer and they had also been
loaded up with extra fuel. In place of real weapons, they had all carried
extra fuel stores which they had ejected from their aircraft as they passed
the general area of the two Chinese fleets. They also carried very convincing
decoy Yahkont missiles that would draw
American missile fire.
Then, only a few minutes earlier, one of the aircraft in the northern most
formation had detected the telltale signs of American transmissions and Aegis
radar signatures. The Colonel had communicated to the entire Regiment what
their orders would be for the final phase of today's mission. The entire
Regiment turned to the north. Based on the triangulation he had received from
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