[Former Military Chick]

Jeff Edwards is a retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer, and an Anti-Submarine Warfare Specialist. He is currently working as a civilian expert consultant to the Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Command, the Navy's think tank for high-tech undersea warfare. His naval career spanned more than two decades and half the globe -- from chasing Soviet nuclear attack submarines during the Cold War, to launching cruise missiles in the Persian Gulf.

He puts his extensive experience as a Surface Warfare specialist to work in his new novel, TORPEDO. In a plot that could easily be ripped from today's headlines, TORPEDO combines an accident at a nuclear power plant, an illegal arms deal, and a biological warfare attack, to ignite a crisis that could draw Western Europe, the Middle East, and the United States into all-out war. TORPEDO mixes the elements of a classic sea chase novel with state-of-the-art technology to create a cutting-edge Surface Warfare Thriller.

[MNJohnnie]

Thanks, Excellent points.

[citizencon]

Attn: Kerry, Kennedy, Biden, Dean, Pelosi, Boxer, and all the kids at the Democratic party.

[Former Military Chick]

military PING

[Hunble]

Copied and sent to a Commander in Iraq. I know he will love reading this story.

[pollyannaish]

THANK YOU Mr. Edwards. I can never figure out why that is so doggone hard for people to understand.

[RustysGirl]

For anybody who's interested, check out the site; many of the terms can be clicked on for full explanations.

An exit strategy is a means of escaping a very difficult situation. An army without an exit strategy is presumed to be in a quagmire; a quagmire (from "quake" + "mire") is, literally, shaky, miry ground; as a political term used to describe a foreign military campaign in which there is either no foreseeable possibility of victory or the objectives are unclearly defined, and at the same time no clear exit strategy has been formulated in the absence of victory. The military campaign is likened to a kind of swamp or marsh in which the warring nation is unable to remove itself.

At worst, an exit strategy will save face; at best, an exit strategy will peg a withdrawal to the achievement of an objective worth the cost of continued involvement. An exit strategy is understood to minimize in either case what military jargon [calls blood and treasure].

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/exit+strategy

[Choose Ye This Day]

Bump to the VERY TOP.

Excellent.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Nailed it, I think.

[Tolik]

Nailed It!
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[RottiBiz]

Thanks FMC. Excellent essay.

[anton]

Every week, 2000 Americans die in accidents, 600 take their own lives and 300 are murdered. All are preventable at some level of cost or effort. Most are economically preventable. We just don't care enough, and are willing to accept the deaths in exchange for the convenience of, say, not using an alcohol interlock on all cars, etc. Our military deaths are as tragic as our domestic deaths, just not as preventable, and we incur those deaths to try to avoid or delay the eventuality of millions of deaths. I'd give my life to make a difference in the safety of millions; it would be an honor.

Hey, wait a minute, isn't that what most all of our military families are telling us?

We need an exit strategy when the job is done. Reality? It will never be done.