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1. What triggers the Soviet oil shortage central to the plot of the book?
2. The Politburo decides to engage and eliminate NATO as a fighting force before what other endeavor?
3. U.S. Navy Commander Danny McCafferty is the first skipper of a new 688 class attack sub, the USS _______?
4. What Maskirovka (deception) do the Soviets decide to use for political gain?
5. US Navy Reservist Bob Toland gets the idea the Soviets are headed for a war footing. One of the indicators is the sudden scarcity of auto and truck batteries in the USSR. He believes this is due to what?
6. Mikhail Sergetov is a candidate member of the Politburo. What is his area of expertise?
7. U.S. Navy Commander Ed Morris is the skipper of a Knox class frigate. What is his ship's name?
8. At the outbreak of hostilities, what mission are the debuting USAF stealth fighters given?
9. What strategically brilliant target is captured by a Soviet airborne battalion hidden in a freighter disguised as an American vessel?
10. Lieutenant Mike Edwards escapes the attack by the Soviet airborne forces. He is a meteorologist in which branch of the US military?
11. US Navy reservist Bob Toland is put on active duty as an intelligence officer and is aboard the USS Nimitz. She is badly damaged by a Soviet naval air assault. Due to heavy casualties, what does Bob Toland end up doing?
12. Lt Edwards and his band intervene when they see several Russian troops raid a civilian farmhouse. What motivates Edwards to take action?
13. USS Chicago is ordered to engage a Soviet invasion fleet, specifically, the heavy warships escorting it. After hours of approach and evading detection, Chicago is ready to launch its attack against the battle cruiser "Kirov". Another sub gets in an attack first. Who was it?
14. USS Pharris escorts a convoy to the UK. Just before returning to the US for another convoy escort, a Red Navy "Victor" class sub scores a torpedo hit against Pharris. What is the damage?
15. NATO utilized VCRs to determine Soviet supply dump locations near the battlefront.
16. USAF Major Amelia Nakamura shoots down Three TU16 "Badger" bombers from the Nimitz raid. What other two kills does she get on separate flights to make ace?
17. General Pavel Alekseyev, deputy CINC-West for Soviet forces, does what to help get a breakthrough of NATO lines?
18. How does NATO intend to neutralize the Russian Naval Air Bases on the Kola Peninsula?
19. Another frigate needs a skipper due to illness. After losing the USS Pharris, Morris takes command of what ship?
20. Shortly after taking his new command, Morris and company prosecute a Red Navy sub hiding among the wreckage of what ship?
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