War in the Pacific has begun. It started slowly, economic warfare and then space warfare shutting down communications, GPS and spy satellites. Feckless American leadership tries to fight back using a politicized military that has one hand tied behind its back until the shooting war starts with the invasion of Taiwan. The fighting is left to people like the Hoffman family, siblings serving in the Pacific fleet who will fight in the air and on the sea, for family, crewmates and for freedom, and to soldiers like Captain Bob Burgess who will be at the spearpoint of fighting the enemy’s perfidious plan at home. They will fight to win even as they are stabbed in the back by leaders in Washington. Author's note: Most of this book was written during covid summer of 2020. Thankfully most of the shutdowns have already ended, but seem ready to restart at any time. I edited the book again 6/17/2022 to fix typos and other errors, but for the books timeline I assume we'll see another wave of virus' and shutdowns at each election time. Hopefully that won't happen. (Version 1.12)