Chapter 21 - A Mysterious Encrypted Dispatch Arrives From High Command
Midway across the Atlantic, the satellite communications console on the aircraft bulkhead beeped with a shrill priority alert.
My senior communications officer rushed down the narrow aisle, handing me a scrambled hard-copy printout.
“General, incoming priority dispatch from European command intelligence operations,” she reported urgently.
I unfolded the thick thermal paper, scanning the encrypted black-box coordinates and urgent situational text.
The Russian cyber-lockdown in Poland wasn't a standard infrastructure hack or a random border probe.
It was a meticulously planned trap designed to lure our strategic deployment wing into a narrow radar pocket.
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And scrawled at the very bottom of the decrypted field intelligence report in red classification ink was a name:
“Be advised, General Vance... the rogue logistics cell you just dismantled in Virginia was taking direct orders from a shadow contractor currently waiting for you on the runway in Warsaw.”
