This is powerful material, required reading for anyone interested in modern warfare. As in the best of this genre, there are no cartoon villains, just dedicated warriors who are given a mission and are determined to carry it out. Operation Red Metal is a nightmare scenario made real but could it just be the first move on the Russian chessboard Review Quotes Praise for Red Metal Red. The various battles-fought on land, sea, and in the air-are exciting, realistic, and technically detailed, complete with the high emotions experienced by the combatants. The Russian president approves, and Red Metal is on. Borbikov proposes a Russian raid into Europe to destroy America’s Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany, and a simultaneous attack to retake the mine. Yuri Borbikov, the Russian special forces commander who was in charge of the mine, draws up a plan, Operation Red Metal. Several years after the Russians lose control of a rare earth mine in Kenya, Col. A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy. Bestseller Greaney (the Gray Man series) and Rawlings, a Marine lieutenant colonel, closely follow more than a score of characters in this outstanding near-future military action thriller.
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