Copyright 1994.
The failed invasion of Norway has triggered a civil war in the Soviet Union. There is the Red side of the hardline Communists and the Blue under democratic reformers. The Red side has decided to nuke a rebel city to get them to surrender. They will use their Typhoon class submarines. The only thing stopping them is CBG-14 the carrier battle group lead by U.S.S. Thomas Jefferson. The Jefferson with its recently promoted Tombstone Macgruder as CAG has to fight off hordes of Soviet bombers. Land a division of Marines on the Kola peninsula and hunt down the Typhoon subs to stop the civil war from going nuclear.
This book continues with a full-blown war in Russia. Something that was a fear back in those days. Such a war would add the threat of loose nukes. Naturally the U.S has to stop this. The book also has a lot to deal with the concept of women in combat. The carrier wing has been augmented with female aviators. This does cause some problems and the author gives a realistic telling with all the positives and negatives of such moves. To a lesser extent it also deals with the just current don’t ask don’t tell policy of the Clinton administration. Another enjoyable action book that deals with an amphibious assault on a strategic point that was one of those scenarios wargamed during the cold war. This is also the final one to deal with the old Soviet Union as the main opponent.
THE BOOKS THAT TIME FORGOT. 