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This is the final book of The Sixth Fleet series To answer some common questions that have arisen from this series, first let me say that there really is a United States Sixth Fleet It is located in the Mediterranean While the Mediterranean is a beautiful sea, its shores are crowded with volatile areas such as Crete, the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa The United States Sixth Fleet has been involved in every crisis in this region since World War II, and today, it still sails this volatile sea protecting the interests of the United States and its allies

To answer another important question, all of The Sixth Fleet books were written prior to September 11th Only this book has been tweaked to reflect some of the geopolitical and military changes caused by those horrific and evil attacks against America The genesis for what would become The Sixth Fleet came to me during a plane trip across the Mediterranean in 1998 At the time, talk about withdrawing the U S Navy from the naval base in Rota, Spain, and moving the Navy headquarters from London to Naples were ongoing while Islamic radicalism was spreading across the Middle East Below me, spread out across the sea was a United States earner battle group in all its strength and majesty In this tmderbox area, this ability to project American power abroad was instrumental in containing so many different volatile situations, ranging from Crete to the Middle East to North Africa from erupting and spreading across the globe

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