Fight Fight

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“You’ve given yourself a knotty problem.”

So said my understated friend and former squadronmate Admiral Pat Walsh, a former Pacific Fleet Commander, who went on to impart his pol-mil insight and regional history into the fascinating and dangerous part of the world known as the South China Sea.

Researching Fight Fight was indeed fascinating and a knotty challenge, to say the least. Like my other novels, it is at its core a human story, one involving miscalculation and uncertainty amid events moving much faster than 20th century air/sea battles progressed. Today’s warriors — on both sides — depend on communications, sensors, and precise navigation assets that they will lose quite fast once the shooting starts. Now what? and the side that can adapt fastest has the best chance of victory, as warfare through the millennia has proved.

How high-level geopolitics affects those at the tip of the spear — on both sides — interests me, and helping me again with insight and advice was former shipmate Admiral Tim Keating, the former Commander of Pacific Command. He and his executive assistant at the time, my squadronmate Rear Admiral Greg Nosal, were invaluable in helping me visualize how news of a serious incident half-a-world away would enter and be absorbed by the command structure.

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