M. P. SULLIVAN –
Major General, U.S. Marine Corps
Deputy Commander for Warfighting
Marine Corps Combat Development Command
Quantico, Virginia
AT ONE END OF THE SPECTRUM, ranks of electronic boxes buried deep in the earth hungrily consume data and spew out endless tapes, Scientists and engineers confer in air-conditioned offices; missiles are
checked by intense men who move about them silently, almost reverently. In forty minutes, countdown begins…