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Initially they had only twelve aircraft airborne. To this they added another
eight, and then twelve more.
These thirty-two aircraft shot down well over one hundred of ours. Their air
defenses shot down another sixty. We lost over one hundred and sixty aircraft
to accomplish our goals that day. Do not forget the basic math of this
equation.
Jien Zenim was impressed by both of these leaders. As they studied Breath of
Fire they would find ample economic, political and military challenge and
reward for their perspective nations and peoples.
Much of it would come down to the discipline and will of which Sayeed spoke.
But even more of it would come down to their ability to lead the Americans to
the fatal terrain Jien had mentioned earlier.
Jien Zenim was very familiar with, and respectful of, the Americans
capability, and, by extension, the capabilities of their allies. He had no
intention, except where absolutely necessary, of directly challenging their
strength. Hasan had used brute force and good planning and he had been
successful. But as he himself admitted, you could only afford to win so many
of those kind of battles. No, Jien was not afraid
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to pay the butcher s bill when required, and though he had the will and the
resources to accumulate such bills more so than any other sitting in this
room, he preferred to manipulate circumstances so that the bill was paid by
his adversaries instead. This was particularly true for the western allies
because they had fewer resources with which to pay such bills, and, every time
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they did, it would substantially lessen their ability to force such payment
terms on Jien and his people.
Good, let us then review the introduction and overview. I believe you will
find the summary to be succinct and to the point. It provides projected time
frames, triggering events and goals for initial operations that will hold our
adversaries in place, and then outlines how we will draw our adversaries onto
the fatal terrain I have spoken of. After reviewing and commenting on the
summary, and modifying it where necessary, we can launch into the details of
each specific area of the plan.
It is my hope and goal that we can leave here tomorrow with both our economic
plans that we have developed over the last two days, as well as the military
options that we develop from these plans, in place.
Shall we proceed then?
December 9, 2005, 18:09 local time
800 KM Northwest of Krasnoyarck
Siberia, The Russian Federation
Dr. Gavanker was very proud of what his team had accomplished in the five
months they had been in
Siberia. By early August, the test bores had been sunk and they had brought
back information beyond expectations. The field would in fact be bigger than
the Baku field in the Crimea. He had been immediately informed by first the
Indian government, and then the Russians, to expect to be provided with a
significant increase in workers and materiel so that he could get initial
production underway before winter.
By September the staff on his team had been tripled to almost two thousand
workers. A regular boom
town was developing, and a spur from the main rail lines two hundred
kilometers to the east had been built and opened before November. By that time
the weather had begun to worsen, but Dr. Gavanker and his team had already
sunk six production wells and had also completed pipelines to the railhead so
that the initial crude could be transported for refinement. This would have to
do until a pipeline could be completed directly to their location. That was
scheduled for the end of January, but progress was being slowed due to the
weather.
As the increase in workers and materiel and business to support them all
mushroomed, the Russians also increased the security forces. Military
engineers came in and took the roughed-out airfield and turned it into a
dual-use commercial and military air base with the latest military radar and
with significant equipment for operations in winter. As a result of his
success in helping develop the resource, building the initial airfield and
having an unblemished record in securing this resource jewel for mother
Russia, Colonel
Nosik was promoted to General. In addition to a significantly increased
security force, including more men and equipment, some heavy armor, and a
number of interceptor and support aircraft, Nosik was given responsibility for
the maintaining the security of two other resource projects. One was a new
Chinese Cobaltite mine, and the other was a new Indian low-sulfur coking
coalmine. The largest operation was here in Gavank, where he established his
headquarters.
Over the preceding months, as their fortunes mutually improved, and they
assumed more and more
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responsibility, Dr. Gavanker and General Nosik formed a friendship of sorts.
General Nosik held weekly staff meetings and invited Dr. Gavanker to a number
of them, to report on the status of the various civilian projects going on at
Gavank. In turn, when Dr. Gavanker held his staff meetings, he would reserve a
portion of each meeting for the General, or his Chief of Staff, to discuss
security issues. Generally, on
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Fridays, the two men met informally over dinner and discussed the week s
events and their thoughts in general. That is what they were doing today.
Andrei, who could have guessed that things would go so well? Or who would
have thought that a crusty old war dog like you would tolerate a theorist and
soft foreigner like me to be a part of your operations for so many months?
The General had to nod. He would not have imagined it himself and if someone
had told him it would be so a year ago, he would have laughed in their face.
Yet it had worked out exactly as Buhpendra described it. Well, almost exactly.
Buhpendra, you know I would never describe you as a theorist, my friend.
You have shown us all, on countless occasions, your ability to apply those
theories to the real world and make this project a success. It could not have
been a success without your strong grounding in reality. As to soft: humph! No
one who lives here in the wilds of Siberia as we have done these last months
is deserving of the term
soft. I will admit to the crusty old war dog title, though.
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